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“In terms of a medium, animation has visual possibilities that aren’t available to you in live action. “I was an artist, so I understand the artists,” Takeuchi said. Now she’s what Hollywood likes to call a multi-hyphenate, a writer-animator-showrunner who brings multiple skills to the job, useful when trying to quickly and accurately communicate her vision. Writing for Gravity Falls and Disenchantment helped fill in Takeuchi’s resume in important ways. After three years, however, Takeuchi decided to make a bold and unusual shift from animation artist to animation writer, because, “I really missed having some level of authorship and being able to write jokes and decide the rhythm of the scene.” She went to become a storyboard artist for Pixar, working on deeply crafted feature-length projects Inside Out and Monsters University. “In 11 minutes, there's not a lot of room for (the story) to take tons of twists and turns,” Takeuchi said.

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She grew up in suburban Boston the daughter of a computer software executive and former translator, then went to CalArts, the exclusive Los Angeles-area arts school that has been a direct pipeline to Disney animation jobs for decades.Īfter graduating with an animation degree, Takeuchi’s first job was on Cartoon Network’s long-running Regular Show, where animators were allowed to create their own dialogue within the producers’ story outlines for each 11-minute episode.

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Reagan Ridley gets some mostly helpful robot arms during a scene in Netflix series 'Inside Job.' (Image courtesy of Netflix)ĭespite her talk of being tossed in the deep end, Takeuchi, 33, brought plenty of experience when she got her shot. Nor, of course, can she confirm the creepy, robe-wearing bosses (we’ll forgo any jokes about what Netflix co-CEOs Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos wear when they’re not on an earnings call).

I can neither confirm nor deny my actual feelings.”

I was thrown in, and I felt like I was swimming in the deep end, so to speak, all the sudden.” Animation As AutobiographyĪsked if Inside Job was actually her autobiography, Takeuchi would say only, “Um, it’s loosely based on my personality and perspective on things. “And I did not know that I was developing the story of my own life in this context, because it was very much exactly the way I experienced, in a very meta sort of way, (getting the show-running opportunity). “When I developed this story, I was a staff writer,” Takeuchi said. Takeuchi developed the story while writing for Disenchantment, the Matt Groening-produced Netflix animated comedy about a princess grappling with life in her not-very-functional fantasy kingdom. Inside Job’s voice cast also includes Christian Slater, Brett Gelman, Clark Duke, Bobby Lee, Andrew Daly, John DiMaggio and Tisha Campbell.

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