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\n\tRaphael Bob-Waksberg returns to Netflix with one other animated series filled with down-to-earth humanity and empathy, \u201cLong Story Short.\u201d<\/p>\n
The series follows the Schwooper family \u2014 parents Naomi and Elliot, and youngsters Avi, Shira and Yoshi \u2014 through different years and even many years, because the members of the family evolve, navigating highs and lows, grief, anxiety and the gamut of the human experience. And it\u2019s also funny.<\/p>\n
Like his series \u201cBoJack Horseman,\u201d \u201cLong Story Short\u201d is grounded ,yet soars with flights of fancy: Wolves take over parts of a faculty, allowing the story to explore parental rights, amongst other things. It also allows Bob-Waksberg to time-jump more deftly than in a live-action show.<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually fell in love with this concept of we are able to see these characters from youth to old age and back again, and have the identical actors playing them the entire time and never worry about distracting prosthetics,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
The thought also excited the show\u2019s supervising producer and production designer, Lisa Hanawalt (\u201cBoJack Horseman,\u201d \u201cTuca & Bertie\u201d), in addition to art director Alison Dubois.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s design Shira as a 20-year-old. Let\u2019s design her as a 4-year-old. A 12-year-old! What things change and what\u2019s consistent? We also must take into consideration how we\u2019re drawing the family, and being very precise about that in a way you can\u2019t if you\u2019re hiring actors,\u201d he continues. \u201cYou may control the environment and animation in a way you never can in live motion \u2014 unless you\u2019re Wes Anderson or something. The extent of control that you have got allows a more intricate and interesting type of storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also loves the collaboration that animation allows. \u201cOne in every of the fun of working with someone like Lisa, who I\u2019ve known without end, and Alison, who I\u2019ve known for less time, but now it appears like without end as well, is that I actually trust them, and I don\u2019t feel like I actually have to micromanage them,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
The show is colourful, and its look is distinct.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a variety of intentionality \u2014 to start with, about ensuring the show felt distinct from our collaborations. We didn\u2019t want it to look exactly like \u2018BoJack Horseman\u2019 or \u2018Tuca & Bertie,\u201d he says. \u201cWe wanted it to appear like its own world. And likewise, we actually wanted it to feel hand drawn.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bob-Waksberg feels that animation can put an audience in a more emotionally receptive place, allowing animated characters to say and do things that perhaps wouldn\u2019t work in live motion, opening up more storytelling possibilities.<\/p>\n
The show could be very specific \u2014 the Schwooper clan is Jewish \u2014 and \u201cLong Story Short\u201d not only explores different points of Judaism, it also probes family dynamics that individuals of any religion, or no religion in any respect, can discover with.<\/p>\n
\u201cI used to be really all for telling a story about religion that took religion seriously in ways in which I had seen it and experienced it, but not a lot in fiction. That perhaps is what’s specifically Jewish about it. I felt like so many stories about religion that we see are type of filtered through the Christian view of things, which is that that is a lot about faith. And for me, my experience of Judaism was never really about that,\u201d he says. \u201cI feel like religion is so far more than that. It\u2019s about community, it\u2019s about culture, it\u2019s about history, it\u2019s about family and the ways through which all those things could be a balm, and likewise a straitjacket.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also wanted the show to explore different perspectives \u201cand never necessarily be a soapbox for one specific standpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n
Season 2 is completed, he notes, although there\u2019s no release date yet. And he hopes there\u2019s a Season 3. \u201cI feel like there\u2019s a variety of stories to be told with these characters, with this family,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m really having fun with it. I would like to go deeper.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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