Around El Studios

Today I was especially crazed and visited two studios: Disney Television Animation at the Frank Wells Building, and DreamWorks Animation, where Mr. Katzenberg's black Prius was gleaming in the afternoon sun ...

Disney Television Animation on the lot is busy wrapping up the second season of Phineas and Ferb and gearing up for the third season. Fish Hooks, crewed by most of the artist that were previously on Cartoon Network's Chowder, are working on Season Uno and slowly expanding.

Disney TVA has five half-hour pilots in work. I stared at the titles on a cork board in a hall but since I know nothing about the shows themselves I have already forgotten them. An artist peering at me over the top of his cubicle said: "Hopefully we'll be making some of those as series soon ..."

At DreamWorks, there's a few end stragglers on How to Train Your Dragon and a push to complete Shrek IV. One of the artists boarding The Croods said to me:

"We screened the story reels for Jeffrey last week. He had notes, but we knew he'd have notes, and we kind of knew where the problems were, so his input reinforced our thinking. But it was a pretty good session; nobody got fired ...."

Then it was back to the office for e-mails and meetings. What fun!