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I believe my partner and I are good at what we do, but I also believe we were lucky to be at the right place at the right time. The problem for aspiring writers is, the networks aren’t simply ideas - they’re buying the people who make them and for that, they need to know you and feel comfortable with you. But it was the 90′s - in my opinion, a more fertile time for creativity in animation - and we had a reputation for success in that world. It doesn’t always go that easily - in fact, it rarely does. It was a very simple pitch: the story of a group of 9-year-old kids, and their adventures on the playground at recess (well, it was more detailed and complicated than that, but you get the idea). We were approached by Disney, who had just taken over ABC, to create an original show for them, and Recess is what we came up with. It was a long time ago, and my partner Joe and I had just come off Rugrats, Hey Arnold, and Beethoven - so w were known quantities in the animation world. I suspect the production process had become more of a corporate machine by those days….
Chuckie's wonderful life series#
I wasn’t there after the initial 65 half hours, so i don’t know exactly why the newer episodes had “a much more basic plinky-plonky generic sound ” but I have a hunch. I believe that, after I left the show, there was no one central show-runner with a vision for the entire series and for each episode, someone who was intimately familiar with each script and had a vision for the final product, and who followed each episode through recording, boarding, animatic and editing. By the time we got to the sound mix, the score carefully supported the story we were telling. Mark and Denis would then make a rough score for the episode and I would review it with them, either approving cues, or asking that they be changed or replaced, depending on what I felt. Then I reviewed the locked cut of every episode with Mark and Denis to explain my choices. (Ask anybody.) After a show was locked visually, I made a detailed list of music cues to score, based on the mood I wanted for every scene.
Chuckie's wonderful life tv#
To begin with, each episode got a unique original score (as opposed to a generic score based on a library of cues recorded ahead of time - which was still the way most TV shows were scored in those days.)Īnother reason for the tailored quality of the music was me. I am, and always have been, a very hands-on producer. There were several reasons the cues fit the shows so well. When we went to series, Mark stayed on as our composer, though many of the cues were written and/or performed by Denis Hannigan (a very talented musician who later became my composer on “Recess.”)
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So we approached Mark to score the pilot, and he was into it, which is how Mark came to be our composer. Mark had made an album using digital “instruments” that sounded like children’s toys, Gabor played it for me, and I loved the sound. Additionally, all half-hour stories from this point on had two ad breaks instead of one.Gabor was a fan of Devo, and had been following Mothersbaugh’s post-Devo work for years. Season 7: 2000-2001 → Main article: Rugrats (Season 7)ĭuring season 7, Rugrats switched to having three segments per episode, consisting of the first segment being eleven minutes long, the second being a two or three minutes, and the third being eight minutes. In the United States, episodes 102, 110, 123, and 124 were held over from this season and ended up airing during Season 7. Season 6: 1999-2000 → Main article: Rugrats (Season 6) Season 5: 1998-1999 → Main article: Rugrats (Season 5) # Season 4: 1996-1997 → Main article: Rugrats (Season 4) # Season 3: 1993-1995 → Main article: Rugrats (Season 3) # Season 2: 1992-1993 → Main article: Rugrats (Season 2) #
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