That New Show Smell

In an early morning briefing from Production gurus Eric Cookmeyer and Mac Middleton, I was told that Pen Ward’s short, “Adventure Time”, has just come back from a track reading. During this step of production, a track reader will phoenetically spell every single word the characters say, and write them down the length of the timing sheet. This allows the animators to know how much time to give to each word as well as what the mouth movement should look like.

“What time is it?” looks something like:
“WUT T I M IHZ IHT?”

“ADVENCHER TIM!”