Asian Journal- The Filipino-American Community Newspaper

IN THE 1990s, a yellow animated family called The Simpsons took America and the world by storm. With its subversive humor and delightful wit, The Simpsons has made an indelible imprint on American pop culture and has become one of television’s most iconic families, led by Homer and Bart Simpson.

It would interest Filipinos to know that one of animators working behind the scenes of this longest running comedy in television history is a kababayan, Alexis Que. In an interview with Asian Journal, Alex described the outstanding work he does.

"At present, I am working as a character layout artist and animator at Film Roman, Inc for The Simpsons. I also worked for The Simpsons first movie which was shown in 2007. As an animator, I systematically draw each drawing of the action or acting of a character or any object that moves in a scene. As a character layout artist, I am responsible for the right composition and staging of the scene, based on the board like the first and last pose of the character’s position to where he comes from and to where he is going and roughing out the background’s horizons and perspectives for background artists. As a storyboard artist, I also draw and visualize panel to panel- like what you see in comics – the written story of the script," said Alex.