Watch how Sylvain Chomet’s couch gag for ‘The Simpsons’ was produced

 

 

Watching how hand-drawn animation is done nowadays always comes across as a watershed moment for me because you know god damn-well 90 percent of animated television isn’t even made this way anymore. Enter Sylvain Chomet and this behind the scenes look at how the legendary animator and his team produced the Simpsons couch gag that aired a little while back on FOX. 

Here is the Sylvain Chomet couch gag for The Simpsons:

http://youtu.be/AOi5OF7gAiM

Here is how the couch gag was produced:

 

Unfortunately, new episodes of The Simpsons don’t even return on FOX until April 27th on FOX, check your local listings.