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Futurama’s Into The Wild Green Yonder Got The Show Hit With A Hefty Fine
By WITNEY SEIBOLD
During a scene in the fourth "Futurama" movie, "Into the Wild Green Yonder," the crowd featured every single character — hundreds of them — that had ever appeared on "Futurama."
"Futurama" co-creator David X. Cohen recalled that this shot was so labor intensive that he received an extra bill from Rough Draft Korea, the studio that animated the scene.
Rough Draft Studios was formed by "Futurama" animator Gregg Vanzo, and their office in Seoul, South Korea was sent the final scene of all those characters in a single shot.
As Cohen said, "[T]hey send this pencil version off to Korea for coloring and the interstitial animations and [...] They balked and they levied a monetary fine against us."
"They said it was beyond the normal and expected labor to be done per frame of animation," which is fair since, Cohen said, "there are real, talented people behind every [scene.]"
Cohen, naturally, paid the fine, and the animators turned out an amazingly complex shot that incorporated everyone from the Hypnotoad to
the Crushinator.