Lucasfilm has posted a new spotlight piece on their website that lets readers learn more about Alex Spotswood, producer of The Bad Batch animated series on Disney+.
Q: Can you tell us your role and summarize your day-to-day responsibilities?
A: I was just recently promoted to producer, and I serve in that role for our new animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch. My responsibilities are ostensibly to work with our VP Athena Portillo and schedule out the entire show from start to finish. I work with our team here at Lucasfilm Animation and our overseas team in Taiwan to make sure that all departments are working together in terms of finishing on their deadlines and handing off their work to the next piece of the puzzle. I figure out if there are any hiccups or bottlenecks, and find ways to keep things moving.
From an animation perspective, we are always producing another episode, and another season, and another show. To do that requires a consistent drumbeat. You can’t burn people out, or burn the midnight oil to make the show, because there is always something in progress. There’s a “marathon over sprint” kind of mentality behind it. We make sure that the artists and everyone takes a vacation from time to time and gets some rest and relaxation. It’s important that people aren’t working until 11 o’clock at night all the time. One of our benefits at Lucasfilm Animation is that we all have stable jobs. We’ve been lucky enough to be consistently producing shows for quite some time. And we’re very, very proud of that.
