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The Steven Universe Podcast

Drawn To Life - Kat Morris, Joe Johnston, Hilary Florido, Jeff Liu, Lamar Abrams, Maya Petersen, and Amish Kumar (Vol.1/Ep.3)

The Steven Universe Podcast

Cartoon Network

Tv & Film

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered how a Steven Universe episode is created? Well, here's your chance to meet the storyboard artists, revisionists, supervisors and directors who bring Steven Universe to life! Storyboard artists Jeff Liu and Lamar Abrams explain the boarding and writing process, and which characters are their favorites to board. Storyboard Revisionists Maya Petersen and Amish Kumar share the challenges of revising group scenes, and shots featuring multiple Gems. And Storyboard Supervisor Hilary Florido and Supervising Directors Joe Johnston and Kat Morris take us inside the "Mr. Greg" episode, and offer tips and advice to upcoming young artists and animators.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Steven Universe podcast.

0:07.0

I'm Mackenzie Atwood and I am here in the writers room of Steven Universe at Cartoon Network

0:12.8

Studios in Burbank, California.

0:15.6

A lot of work goes into the creation of a single episode of Steven Universe and today

0:20.6

we're going to meet the storyboard artists and directors who bring each episode to life.

0:25.8

They do everything from the initial storyboard drawings to writing dialogue to revisions

0:31.1

before the boards go to the animation team.

0:33.6

They have a lot of responsibility and so today we're going to meet them discover how

0:37.8

they came to Steven Universe, what it's like working with each other, the background

0:41.9

artists, the creator, Rebecca Sugar and other directors on the series and here are some

0:46.7

of their favorite Steven Universe moments.

0:49.3

So coming up we'll talk to storyboard revisionist Maya Peterson and Amish Kumar.

0:53.8

Headboard supervisor Hillary Floreedo and supervising directors Joe Johnston and Kat Morris.

0:58.9

And starting us off I'm sitting here with storyboard artists Jeff Lu and Lamar Abrams.

1:04.4

First off thank you guys so much for being here on the show and why don't you tell us a

1:08.0

little bit about what you guys do.

1:09.8

Thanks for having us.

1:10.8

Thanks for having us.

1:11.8

Yeah for sure.

1:13.2

I do storyboards and writing, I guess that's the same job and a little bit of voice acting

1:18.4

on Steven Universe.

1:19.8

Cool.

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