Description of working on Kung Fu Panda from Dan Harmon (Community, Rick and Morty): > My hats off to anyone that can write a Dreamworks Animation film. The

Description of working on Kung Fu Panda from Dan Harmon (Community, Rick and Morty): > My hats off to anyone that can write a Dreamworks Animation film. They have a unique process. > First they storyboard the entire film. That is the first step. Not kidding. No writers, no script, just a story, and an entire film drawn on pieces of paper. > Then Katzenberg watches an animatic of the boards and says, surprisingly, "this needs a lot of work. You have a month." > Then they hire their first writer. And spend that month changing as much of the storyboards as they can, which is about 20 to 30 percent. If the 30 percent change isn't the right kind of change, people get fired. Maybe the director, maybe the writer, maybe both… > I came in about four writers into the process. It's kind of hard to write a "better" scene than the last writer when the rules are that you can only change 30 percent of each scene or completely change 30 percent of the scenes, per Katzenberg screening. So, for instance, in this scene, the panda comes up a flight of stairs carrying a bucket of water, slips on a banana peel, says something to two geese and does an air guitar. The good news? There can be anything in the bucket. Your mission: make the movie better. https://www.avclub.com/hilarious-things-to-put-in-kung-fu-pandas-bucket-1798214269 https://www.avclub.com/hilarious-things-to-put-in-kung-fu-pa...