Thomas E. Richner

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That’s not Superman. Love Henry- hope he gets to do more in that genre… but wasn’t the right fit.

Thanks! One of the hardest ones I’ve worked on in terms of pencil mileage. The baseball scenes with Homer killing people- had to xerox drawings WAY down and cut them into animation paper bc they were so small. Sure it made drawing them for the animators tricky but they did a great job!

Mulhouse/ Milhouse (damn autocorrect).

A fun section a got to draw with director Steve Moore. Did A LOT on this episode- Homer killing at the baseball game, Frinks dad ripping Ned’s organs out of his throat, Bart and Mulhouse running away from an angry crowd and stopping time. Back on paper, LOTS of work!

Drew this whole sequence in layout. Have worked on a number of treehouse of horrors over the years- this one is a top two favorite. The other is probably Death Tome. Just so happy with how the final animation turned out!!

Needs to be challenged when he uses that answer. The go to answer for any of them when they don’t want to talk about a topic.

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Did a lot on this episode

Happy for him. :-)

Got to draw it as blocks. Worked hard(ish) to make sure we did it right. :-)

The largest section I ever remember working on back when we were drawing on paper. The stadium was FULL as Homer went through killing people. Took a couple weeks to draw this section all out.

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Was looking up a GIF and came across a scene I animated- wonder if there are others.

Thanks!!! :-)

Thank you! :-) Was a blast having a hand in on everything from the boards all the way to the finished product. 👏👏😁😁

Check out tonight’s episode on the west coast. Honored to have assistant directed w/ one of our OG directors, Steve Moore, who was the first director I met when I started back in 1998. Fun/ topical episode. Thanks to @mattselman.bsky.social and @aljeansimpsons.bsky.social for the wonderful scripts!

Guess we’re making a movie!!

New Simpsons tonight! Directed by my cubbymate from the late 90’s, Gabriel DeFrancesco.

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Pretty clear WHY it seems impossible to get through to some people…

Remember his last one- big my first year at Denison.

Doodles- they pop up on paper all around our house all the time. No one knows how they get there. 🤷‍♂️

They need to say that’s not an adequate answer anymore.

When they say they don’t know anything about this or that, they should be challenged on that- it is you JOB to know what’s going on around you.

Probably my favorite act I’ve storyboarded on the Simpsons. Blown away with how good the animation turned out. We all were.

bear with me as I attempt a copy/paste of an old twitter thread, in honor of the passing of writer Peter David. Among his many works, he wrote one of my all-time favorite comics, YOUNG JUSTICE. At a time when a lot of superhero comics trended grim and violent, it dared to be a fun superhero comic.

It’s a fantastic movie to study scene by scene. All the visuals support the story throughout the entire film- as it should be.

Bringing him up right. ;-)

YouTube video by TheLoneDraftsman The Needs of the Many Outweigh The Needs of the Few

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Classic episode!