Imagine post-revival Futurama with edgier humor.
Well, Yas Forums?
Nicholas Lopez
Michael King
Back in the day you could whip the Korean animators harder
Kevin Cooper
>This shit takes time.
Yeah! I can't even imagine how long it must have taken them to come up with amazing locations like the Farting Butt Dimension or creative names like Froopy Noopers, Shrimply Pibbles, and Mr. Poopy Butthole.
Dylan Phillips
WE ARE SLAAAVES
Easton Robinson
money and labor. It's not just technology?
Cooper Evans
Implying R&M is more quality than classic Simpsons? Okay kid.
Bentley Howard
Jeez Louise, you guys are fucking idiots.
The Simpsons gets near automatic renewals every season, whereas [adult swim] always took their time to greenlight more Rick and Morty episodes during those first three seasons. Now that Dan and Justin are guaranteed 70 more episodes, they’re finally free to keep producing the show with a full staff of writers, artists, and post-production people season after season instead of having to send off and later rehire them over and over again. There’s no doubt that we’ll be getting much shorter breaks between seasons moving forward; they've been writing Season 5 since spring 2019 at the latest.
You also have to remember that Rick and Morty isn’t your typical grounded family sitcom like The Simpsons. With the characters visiting alien planets and alternate realities in every episode (sometimes MULTIPLE new locations PER EPISODE), it takes extra time to develop a clear concept of how these strange worlds look and function, along with the fuckton of new designs that have to be made. Say what you will about Justin Roiland’s crude art style, but the character designers work hard to make each new species look especially weird and creative rather than like typical "alien" designs (see: Solar Opposites). The backgrounds are gorgeous and lavishly colored, and Bardel's animation team has to build countless rigs for detailed crowd shots, spaceships, insane sci-fi gadgets, and special effects.
This shit takes time.
Dominic Edwards
Go to bed, Dan. And go easy on the edibles.
Brandon Thomas
The Simpsons had a way bigger budget.
Rick and Morty is also way more reliant on Justin Roiland than The Simpsons was on Matt Groening. And we've recently learned that Roiland is releasing a new show on Hulu (Solar Opposites), with an almost identical artstyle to Rick and Morty.
Bentley Murphy
Because The Simpsons was the single most popular show on television and had the full commercial backing of Fox at its absolute network prime.
R&M is only popular among a niche crowd, and a "high" budget at AS is six bucks and a Snickers bar.