On the evening of October 27, 2022, Netflix allowed Wonderstorm to premiere the first episode of Season Four of The Dragon Prince, “Rebirthday,” on YouTube. Here it is:
Today, October 29, 2022, Jason Simpson–the voices of Lord Viren and Barius the baker–counted the number of people who worked on that particular episode and posted the results on Twitter, in appreciation of all the fine talents involved.
Acknowledging the amount of people & work that make just one episode of TDP, not counting BTS folks who aren’t in the credits; it fluctuates a little w/each episode, but here’s S04E01 & the people (286!) it took to get it in front of your eyeballs:
Additional Prod Management x3 • Animatic Editors x2 • Animation Director • Animation Leads x8 • Animation Supervisor • Animators x72 • Art Director • Assets Supervisor • ASL Interpreters x2 • Background Sound Editor • Central Prod Manager
CG Supervisor • Co-Producers x3 • Community & Communications • Composer • Design Supervisors x2 • Designers x14 • Dialogue Editor • Digital Matte Painting Artists x6 • Digital Matte Painting Supervisor • Executive Producers x7 • Finance Dept x5
Finance, VP • FX Artists x7 • FX Supervisor • Heads of Animation x2 • Lighting Artists x33 • Lighting Leads x2 • Lighting Supervisor • Line Producer • Model Surface Artists x32 • Model Surface Leads x5 • Motion Graphics • Operations Dept x5
Operations, VP • People & Culture Department • People Operations x3 • Post Production Supervisor • Producers x3 • Production Coordinators x11 • Production Editor • Production Managers x2 • Riggers x13 • Rigging Supervisor • Recording Services x2
Recruitment x3 • Resource Manager • Senior Prod Coordinator • Sound Recording Engineer• Storyboard Artists x2 • Storyboard Director • Studio CG Supervisor • Supervising Editor / Re-Rec. Mixer • Supervising Director • Supervising Storyboard Director
Supervising Producer • Shot Finaling • SFX Editors x2 • Tech Dept x16 • Tech, VP • Voice Actors x11 • Writers x2 • Writers, Staff x4
THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK, EVERYONE!
(If I got some numbers or job positions wrong, or missed someone… please know that your work and time is invaluable and you are greatly appreciated!)
All nine episodes of Season Four, The Dragon Prince: Mystery of Aaravos, premieres November 3, 2022 on Netflix.
