If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.
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All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.
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I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.
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Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?
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Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.
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One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.
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You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low.
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Mel Blanc has been gone for 30 years, even though he's still around.
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Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.