How TV Animation Survived Mid-Pandemic: Zoom, Puppeteers and Voice Actors in Closets
Animation has been a rare pillar of stability during the most chaotic time for Hollywood in a century, churning out new episodes while the rest of the industry figures out how to keep COVID-19 out of its sets. But it faced some daunting challenges to resume production in the midst of a pandemic that nobody knows long it will last. “All the solutions we came up with at the very beginning of all of it — this was like in March — we were like, every solution we come up with needs to be a solution that could potentially last for years,” Mike McMahan, creator of CBS All Access’ “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” told TheWrap. “I didn’t want any three-month or two-week solutions.” In interviews with a half dozen people, top animation creators described how they employed some very unconventional methods to complete episodes — from using puppeteers to recording an orchestral score piecemeal to voice actors bribing neighborhood children to be quiet. (More on that later.) When “The Simpsons” became the first TV production to leave the office back in early March as the coronavirus pandemic was just beginning to rear its ugly head at the United States, Al...
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