A fourth Seth macfarlane show announced

The lack of movement is a stylistic choice -- MacFarlane animated his pilot that way; he feels the jokes are better punctuated by jerky sudden movements.

Of course, for Fox, it doesn't hurt that it's also cheaper.
 
I remember an episode with a cutaway with Stewie imagining himself as Jiminy Glick (for whatever reason) interviewing Colin Farrell, and Farrell does absoultely nothing while Stewie/Glick is spastically flailing his arms around on the other side of the screen. Seriously, they didn't even bother to animate him blinking or anything, he just sits there not moving. It was like watching Clutch Cargo. :shrug: To often, MacFarlane characters who are being spoken to just stand/sit there, occasionally binking or something, but not really doing anything.
 
According to artists on Family Guy, it's come to the point that all they do now is just trace off of model sheets (as opposed to just simply using it as reference)

I miss the animation from the first season. It was more fluid in comparison
 
Only way I'd be interested is if the art/animation style was different from his three current shows (for example, why did he abandon his style seen in the CN short Larry and Steve?). Even different executions on the jokes would be nice. Sadly, the chances of that are slim to none.
 
Now there's a thought. Instead of a fourth show for Fox, Seth should go to Cartoon Network and repitch Larry and Steve.

:pIt'll be Family Guy for kids!:p
 
To be honest I like the current animation style a little more. For some reason looking at the older animation is a little painful to watch for me.
 
Just like anything animated, it takes quite a while to animate. So, many are animated at once, take into account for writing and you're okay.

It's not like Seth actually writes every episode. The most he actually does is write a joke or two.
 
Well, he also supervises the scripts and gives each one his personal stamp of approval. And he does voices for all three shows, so he's there for table reads and recording sessions and stuff. All told, he still puts in a pretty decent amount of work on each show. But from what I understand, he's more heavily involved in the writing sessions for "Family Guy" than he is for his other two shows.
 
This made my day.


Really? From what I saw from the Cleveland Show it was... well, kinda meh. Not even my mother, who LOVES Family Guy, could get into it... which says something. Plus I didn't like many of the characters... especially Cleveland's baby son... I wanted to punch him in the face every time he was on screen... why is he in the show again?

I don't want to think of American Dad getting replaced though. It's Seth's better show in my honest opinion.

But regardless of my personal opinion on Seth MacFarlene (which is mixed), I do agree that a 4th show is pushing it, I mean how many shows can one guy possibly control at once?
 
In an American Dad commentary, Seth stated when recording Roger and Stan he has to take a day for each character. I wonder if the same goes for Family Guy?

Besides his thumbs up, though, he doesn't write. I imagine he still puts forth jokes and such.
 
What's really lame is that they've learned nothing from introducing Meg undefined ten years ago. "Here's Cleveland's daughter, and she's....Cleveland's daughter." When you're developing a main cast member, fleshing them out beforehand is kinda important.
 
I don't quite understand why this was brought up... So a movie bombed and somebody made another show because of it, or what? I don't understand.

Somebody said that one of those shows could end by then, and some thought it could be American Dad. I read somewhere that Seth MacFarlane was planning on having Family Guy end in a few years. Maybe that show will end and this new one will begin.
 
He said that he wouldn't want Family Guy to be a show that never ends and will end it at the perfect time.

Or something along those lines.



She has been getting development in the recent episodes.
 
Actually, what he said was that he does all of Stan's lines on one day and then does the rest of the script the next day, because doing Stan's voice takes so much energy out of him. (Which makes sense - it's a big booming voice that's always full of vim and vigor, like a 1950s propaganda film narrator, and doing that for an hour and a half would wear anybody out.)
 
Heh, only at Toon Zone can a thread about Seth MacFarlane get a 5 page discussion on character development and the only legitimate chance of The Simpsons getting cancelled :p

From the looks of things, he's not getting a 4th show unless one of the current shows gets axed, or if his crew feels like trying something new. After 3 family sitcoms, ones bound to get creative burnout right?
 
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