Fox Hit ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Is Saving Trees While Pioneering A New Way To Animate

The animation studio behind the TV show “Bob’s Burgers” is dragging animation into the digital age and saving a whole lot of trees in the meantime.

Believe it or not, animated shows are still created mostly on paper — leading to thousands of sheets ending up stacked in basements at major studios. But Bento Box Entertainment, which produces Comedy Central’s “Brickleberry” and Hulu’s “The Awesomes” in addition to the Fox hit “Bob’s Burgers,” is pioneering a new way to take characters from an artist’s hand to your TV screen. Animators at the company, founded in 2009 and based in Atlanta and Los Angeles, draw directly on tablets, making the process simpler and more eco-friendly.

“The fear was that the results would look different or sterile,” said Kuwahara. But that wasn’t the case. “It’s still handcrafted, but drawn directly on the computer,” he noted.

Bento Box is proud to have pioneered this new approach. “We were the first ones to do it this way, and it’s proven successful,” McJimsey said.

The Huffington Post