Anonymous asked: Hi Ben, I know Steven Universe doesn't use scripts. Would you share a photo of an outline for everyone to see? Thank you.

Sure! Since the Creative Emmy’s are this weekend, I’ve uploaded the outline for the Emmy nominated episode “Lion 3: Straight to Video”.

As some of you know, Steven Universe is a storyboard driven show, meaning a team of storyboard artists are given an outline off of which they write all of the dialogue and storyboard the episode. The job of the outline, and my job, is to give them the basic framework for the episode - the story.

Lion 3: Straight to Video - Outline

This outline was a culmination of work by Matt Burnett, Ian Jones-Quartey, Kat Morris, Rebecca Sugar and myself. The actual episode was boarded by Joe Johnston, Jeff Liu and Rebecca Sugar.

The basic skeleton of the episode is there, but if you’ve seen the episode you can tell where Jeff and Joe subtracted and expanded. For example, Jeff came up with that amazing conversation about art with Dogcopter. Joe brought Lion to life with all that cute animal acting (and of course Pearl running around on all fours). And the Rose segment was all Rebecca.

8:50 am • 11 September 2015 • 5,032 notes