Hey, it's Mackenzie Abbwood. Welcome to the Steven Universe podcast. This is a special

behind the scenes look at the new Steven Universe episode, Raising the Barn, which you

can watch right now on the CN app. Storyboard artists Amber Craig and Hillary Florida are

here to share some insight, so I'll just jump in and ask, what are you guys thoughts

after seeing the finished episode? Wow. This is your first episode, right? Yeah, it was.

I was so excited to work on this episode. That's a big first episode because there's a lot

that happens and a lot that's a big change, you know? Yeah. So for this episode, something

that really struck out to me was the balance between humor and like soul-crushing sadness.

I feel like that was handled really well. I loved how there would be moments where you were like,

you know, when Paradox walking with Steven and the woods and they'd find a basketball,

and then she's sort of confessing these, like, these very problems, like the problem, you know,

like that she doesn't feel like she can talk to, to lapse about it. So like, how did you guys

approach that balancing the humor and the realness? Well, it was my first episode, so I wouldn't say

that this is how every episode goes, but my process or the process that I had at the time was just

to push it as far as I thought it could go, although that scene that you're talking about was

Hillary's. But thanks. Like, very good. I feel like, gee, I don't even know how to explain.

Well, the classic equation is, you know, tragedy plus time is comedy. And I think when things are sad

is when it's almost easiest to be funny, because it's so hard and humor is definitely my coping

mechanism or like, you know, your self-defense thing. People are looking for anything funny to

take the mind off of the... Yeah, or just put in perspective. I don't know. I think humor is fantastic

in sad situations that given the chance, if you can kind of navigate it with humor,

you're able to process it more. And it's better to watch as an episode. It's a comedy show.

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