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Table of Contents

Guide

The Art Before the Horse

The Art Before the Horse

By Chris McDonnell

Abrams, New York

Contents

Foreword

By Lisa Hanawalt

I was terrified when Raphael told me the news that

BoJack

had

been picked up. I probably tried to Google how to design an

animated show and came up with no real answers. My diary

from my first month at work has entries like:

I feel like the new kid at school. I had to sit in on a

meeting and I got so bored and anxious I almost threw up!

Ive been trying to communicate the way I think clouds

should be drawn so that they arent boring.

This job is intensely social in a way that is alien to me.

I have to constantly communicate with other people. I like

it, but its also completely exhausting.

Elizabeth, our prop designer, has been sending me

props and its fun to form an instant opinion about which

EKG machine looks better. She draws phone cords really

well and I realize this is a thing Im going to become

particular about. Later I ask another designer to redraw a

phone cord several times because it isnt quite right and

Ive been spoiled by Elizabeths.

I feel panicked and mute during large meetings, but

much more in my element when speaking one-on-one

with designers because I can help make choices and bad

jokes. Today I told one designer, This restaurant should

have a dumb fountain. What if there was a baby elephant

cupid with water coming out of his trunk and dick? I

know these are the least important elements of the show

but they give me the greatest feeling of pride.

Im feeling slightly more confident after four seasons, but Im

still learning new skills (and making new mistakes) every day.

This show has such a wild variety of imagery, I relish the excuse

to research, form opinions about, and draw specific types of

bird, species of rodent, 1940s period costumes, deep-sea

anemones, vintage movie posters, advertisements, furniture,

etc. It feels like a fun puzzle every time I have to design a

comely snake or smarmy rabbit or dentist/clown duck. Every

episode comes with unique and wonderful challenges.

I learned its OK to ask for help and input, and that need-

ing to work together with other people to complete a proj-

ect is a strength, not a weakness. Im lucky to work with so

many talented individuals who tolerate my approach to things

like purple clouds and blue-tongued lizards and are not only

cool with me getting my paw prints all over everything, but

also add their own unique line, color, shapes, and jokes. My

favorite moments of the show are the inside gags, worst puns,

made-up words, butt paintings, and the wonky drawings we

didnt fix because they just looked funnier that way.

Every artist on this production has contributed some-

thing meaningful, and I hope they feel proud when they look

through the following pages. Im so proud of all of us.

PS My apologies to the furry community and all animal-tail

enthusiasts for the lack of tails on this show. Please feel free to

grab a marker and add tails to all the following pages in your

personal copy

of this book.

Lisa Hanawalt

is an artist in Los Angeles. She is also the author

of

My Dirty Dumb Eyes

,

Hot Dog Taste Test

,

and most recently,

Coyote Doggirl.

Introduction

By Raphael Bob-Waksberg

THIS IS THE MOST BORING PAGE IN THIS BOOK, and I feel

so bad for you that you are reading it right now. Literally every

other page is more interesting than this one, and yet here you

are, like a sucker, still reading this page.

Every other page in this book is bursting with gorgeous

illustrations, meticulous breakdowns, mercurial breakthroughs,

history, pre-history, histrionics, animatics, animated panics,

frantic fragments, remnants, remembrances, never-before-

seen-full-screen-behind-the-scenes ephemera, et ceteraor,

as a mouse might say, et cheddara.

And yet here you are, idling in this introduction instead

of moving forward. You are a fool, plain and simple, and I do

not envy those who have chosen to share their lives with you

and are now forced to constantly put up with your foolish insis-

tence on reading the worst pages in books.

It just occurred to me that perhaps you have not pur-

chased this book yet. Perhaps you are just thumbing through

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