Jai Husband's Lounge Discussions

I jump at the chance for some cyber socializing considering I'm an animator, and animation is an extremely isolating job...even when you're in a room with a team of other animators. You mostly stay isolated in your own little world with earphones on pumping dialogue into your ears as you lip sync, key frame and work your way through a tediously painstaking scene at 30 frames per second. As many of you on here, I'm a multi-discipline entertainment professional: I'm a Director, writer, actor, producer animator. I'm a recent recipent of the 2013 NAACP Image Award for a feature animated film I wrote/directed/produced on BET Network last year. Before launching out on my own to start my own creative development/animation company, I served as Senior Animation Director for TBS for 10 years. I directed commercials and on-air content for Cartoon Network and Adult Swim mostly. After leaving Turner Broadcasting to start my own gig, after I completed my flagship feature for BET, I got the opportunity to start writing/producing and directing an animated Webseries for the National Institute of Health. It was great to do something episodic after so much time doing shorter form commericial projects, but it was also a great deal of work. In addition to the demands of the NIH webseries, I began writing and pitching more original stuff of my own to other networks, and working on an original pilot an animated project I had rolling around my head for a while. It meant burning the candles at both ends...working like crazy on the out-of-house projects and then clocking out and clocking back in on my own projects into the wee hours of the night. Over the past four years on my own my social life has been literally non-existant, but it seems like the sacrifice and hard work has paid off. I just got my original pilot greenlighted for a major Network. I'll share more about it later after the deal firms up and goes through (nothing is official until the ink dries, right?), but I'm really excited about the opportunity I'm being given to do a passion project. I write all of this to say, this industry is hard and difficult, unfair and sometimes it seems that commercial success is damn near unobtainable...but keep digging. Keep dreaming. Keep making art and pursuing your goals and ultimately fairytales do come true. Here's to pixie dust!

Hi I need advice regarding the corret use of mutiple languages in dialogue when writing the dialogue in the screenplay. If a character speaks 2 different languages in his dialogue (sentence contains both languages) is the dialogue as written in the screenplay, written in both languages as it would be spoken or is the dialogue written in English (for example) and then above the dialoge in parenthasis that the dialogue is spoken in a different language. If this is the case, how does one indicate which portion of the dialogue is spoken in the other language. If the dialogue is written in the languages as they are spoken, does one include the English mean? If so, where/how?