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[done] Split: Hiroaki HIRATA (#917)

Begs the question as to what, actually, a Production Desk does?

Production
(Seisaku)

Production Manager
(Seisakubuchou)

Production Controller
(Seisakudesuku)

Production Assistant
(Seisakushinkou)

The seisaku department manages the show through the production process. The production workers monitor every sheet of paper, every cel, every pixel, every drop of paint, every script book that the assistant directors lose, every time that the key animators miss a production meeting because they are asleep or eating at the filthy little noodle shop next door (or both) and so on. This is a very hard department to work in. The phones ring constantly and it seems like everyone who can steal even a minute of extra time to do their work is doing it, so the production workers must be polite but firm.

Most production workers work 14 hour days and often weekends and holidays when the schedule is really tight. They also have to spend a lot of time travelling, driving around the city to pick things up or drop them off or to go to meetings. When the rest of the staff is celebrating the end of the production, the production staff is already working on the next show. The reward of this position is that you can look at a show that you managed and think, "That couldn't have been done without me!"