{"id":2067,"date":"2008-11-25T20:48:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T01:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2008-11-25T20:48:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T01:48:59","slug":"which-is-more-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/11\/25\/which-is-more-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Is More Important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I wouldn\u2019t say that writing is more important than art in animation&#8230;&#8221; says <a href=\"http:\/\/ogiuemaniax.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/17\/so-lets-take-a-script-and-then-build-a-table-out-of-it\/\">Ogiue Maniax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Personally WOULD say that. In fact, I&#8217;ll say it right now.  Writing IS more important than art in animation. If the writing is good enough you can get away with artwork that&#8217;s pretty bad. (It will probably be hailed as edgy, unconventional artwork that defies conventional notions of beauty.) On the other hand, if the writing is bad, the most beautiful artwork in the world won&#8217;t save it.<\/p>\n<p>Consider: what&#8217;s the most successful American animated TV series ever? Obviously <em>The Simpsons<\/em>. Why do people watch it? For the witty, satirical writing. Let&#8217;s face it, the artwork is pretty crude. In fact, to call the character designs &#8220;crude&#8221; would be flattery.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the second most popular American animated TV series currently on the air? Probably <em>South Park<\/em>. In this case the artwork isn&#8217;t too bad, considering that it&#8217;s obviously done by a bunch of sixth graders with a budget of $16.56 per episode. Nevertheless I&#8217;m pretty sure that most people tune in for the vulgar but hilarious writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I wouldn\u2019t say that writing is more important than art in animation&#8230;&#8221; says Ogiue Maniax. Personally WOULD say that. In fact, I&#8217;ll say it right now. Writing IS more important&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/11\/25\/which-is-more-important\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[222,127],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-south-park","tag-the-simpsons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2071,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/2071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}