
Similarly to the production line of The Simpsons, only the storyboards and animatics were produced by Rough Draft in Glendale, California, while the animation itself was made by the South Korean part of the company. While storyboards and animatics were still drawn by hand on paper, everything else like the inking, painting and in-betweening was created in graphics computers by scanning the drawings, eliminating the costly way of using traditional analogue film material. They also had worked on several Simpsons episodes before and so were very well acquainted with Matt Groening's particular style of drawing.Īnother big change from the Simpsons was that Futurama had been one of the first digitally produced animated television series. The company, headed by Gregg, Scott and Nikki Vanzo, had the advantage of having dependences in both the USA and South Korea and more than just a little experience with 3D animation. The ideal choice turned out to be Rough Draft Studios, founded in 1991 by former Simpsons animators. The animation was also given to a different studio, because Film Roman was fully occupied with The Simpsons and an alternative with some 3D experience was needed because in addition to traditional animation some three-dimensional elements were planned. Brooks' Gracie Films, but by Matt Groening's own production outfit The Curiosity Company, founded especially for Futurama.
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Cohen were able to assert their creative freedom like they had done with the Simpsons, but in the end this did not help much because Fox still had the final say of what could go on air, resulting in many fights between the series makers and the studio.įuturama was not produced by the home of the Simpsons, James L. So far Fox had been very cooperative, but very early the studio started to make obstructive and unreasonable demands. To their huge surprise they were met with no small interest, even though they only had presented a rough outline - the studio immediately ordered a small season with 13 episodes, which were to be broadcast early the next year. Cohen went to the big bosses of 20th Century Fox to convince them of their new idea, only with a few ideas and notes at hand. In Spring 1998, Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, developing a completely new concept titled Futurama. In 1997, Groening started collaborating with Simpsons author and producer David X. As a huge science-fiction fan, only one scenario was absolutely right for the cartoonist: transporting a protagonist from the present into the far future. In the 1990s, Matt Groening's animated series The Simpsons had taken television screens worldwide by storm and had quickly become a huge phenomenon - but was there something else except the adventures of the yellow people? Matt Groening had actually asked himself this many times and always found that the answer was yes - the Simpsons should get a sister series. German, Spanish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish Television / The Curiosity Company (1999)
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It being the 31st century, it is possible that she was revived later.

In 3014, Linda was eaten by a rabbit creature while hosting the news ( SABF16). In 3011, it was revealed that she was an alcoholic and mother, when the millions of tiny Benders stole all booze and she couldn't handle her newscasting sober ( 6ACV17).

In 3010, she was seen in a recorded video shown in the V-GINY ( 6ACV02), and covered the passing of Proposition ∞ and consequent legalization of robosexual marriage ( 6ACV04), as well as the visit of Robo-Hungarian Emperor Nikolai to New New York ( 6ACV10). This was the first time she interacted with the primary characters. In 3008, Linda van Schoonhoven unintentionally mated with a planet-sized monster ( TBwaBB), and, two years later, became one of the Feministas, along with Leela and Amy ( ItWGY).
