How did this show afford to have such detailed animation? Looking back, it's shocking how many frames each scene has...

It's kinda incredible how Antonucci managed to get Cartoon Network to fund a show outside of their supervision and do it all under his direction, in his own studio, in fucking Canada of all place with such an erratic production schedule.
It feels like something that's impossible to attempt nowadays.

I know that fucking feeling all too well, user. it's genuinely frustrating to me.

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This is great

I didn't notice the gaps as a kid which shows that even with a good reason for long season gaps CN still aired new episodes more consistently than Steven Universe

did this guy work on the show?

I think CN and Nick were just doing this weird-ass thing back in the day when they would purposely delay the shit out of the American release of cartoons for whatever the fuck frustrating reason. Like I recall that new episodes of Fairly Odd Parents would air in China years ahead of it getting released locally. I watched a pirated version of the EEnE movie like a year before it was officially out.

Or maybe I have the world's gayest memory, but I'm pretty sure CN/Nick were just on some stupid Steven Universe-tier release schedule at the time despite the episodes being finished.

EEnE was the last cartoon I can remember having, like, the musical cues to go with the cartoon antics. Like a musical sound effect for someone tip-toeing and such. Even for the time, it was old-school as fuck.

It was old-school while still being unique and bringing something new to animation

I remember that, too, watching an Australian rip of The Big Picture Show, which I heard about years later on the internet. The ridiculous CN/Nick scheduling was no bullshit. They're mismanaged networks, run by brainless moneymen. Check out Aqua Teen's arbitrary cancellation, for example. All the cartoon channels stay afloat because they have, in essence, a captive audience of kids.

You can say the same thing about John Kricfalusi, and that didn't work out for him so well.

It has less to do with being a perfectionist and more to do with being highly competent & good at organizing your crew. I get the feeling AKA Cartoon was a pretty close-knit group that knew how to work really dynamically together.

All that after he was previously known only for doing grossout adult cartoons that were extremely niche.
In the few good interviews of Danny, he's always been pretty vague about how he got the green light. He must've had some really good leverage to get CN to support such a unique show right out the gate.