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Interview: Joel Cohen, Writer and Associate Producer of <i>The Simpsons</i>

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 31, 2008

Can you explain how The Simpsons used
Linux…?

“The show is all hand-drawn and digitally animated, and the
movie was too. However, because we were writing and re-writing the
movie at such a furious pace, the scenes we would write needed to
be seen and approved or revised (or often rejected) before they
committed to the very labor-intensive process of hand drawing the
cels…”


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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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