Rough Draft Studios

Other lead animators, Kirk Wise, the co-director of Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Atlantis.

You've got Greg Vanzo, the founder of Rough Draft and an early director on Simpsons and Ren & Stimpy.

Bob, you mentioned it, David Cutler, art director on The Critic and director of multiple episodes of The Critic, too.

Also, like, uh, you're probably gonna name him, but Alan Smart's on this, too.

I feel like even more than The Simpsons, they were trying to push the animation fluidity, at least, on that show.

Mm-hmm.

It was, Rough Draft had a real thing to prove there.

It was their first full series they were doing it all for, so they-

Sort of a plausible scenario, but also a little delusional.

And what I learned very quickly after getting that job, my first animation job at Rough Draft Studios, was that animators wanted to animate.

They did not want to draw my comics.

But the thing that I discovered in working there... and uh was that i really liked working with artists and i really liked being in that environment and um and uh it was a real uh it was it was it was it