Simpsons Amid Interview-Longwinded Answers pt 1

AMID: 1.) First things first, what's the backstory here? How did you end up animating a Simpsons opening?Matt Groening and Al Jean asked me to do it. They showed me an opening that Banksy did that satirized the animation production assembly line system in Korea and told me it was really popular, so they wanted to do something similar with me.StoryboardAt first they just wanted me to do a

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I'll put some more production art and rough animation tests later in the week.Meanwhile here's an interview about t with Amid on Cartoon Brew:http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/exclusive-john-k-talks-about-his-simpsons-opening.html#more-50701I also have a longer version of the same interview that I can put up.