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A program on the iPad captured and mapped their faces with Trent directing them from his office via Zoom. No one did scenes in isolation, they did them together, via Face Time. “It was a stand with an iPad, lights, cameras, mics, all that stuff. “We had technology, and I think this was a first for …that was shipped to the actors when it was needed,” he said. Then, using state-of-the-art technology, the cast were able to shoot their scenes with each other, and with O’Donnell directing, in real time. “We had to cut a lot of scenes down, mainly just trying to brighten it all up a bit,” Brammall said. It took about six weeks to rewrite Season 4. “It was a completely different challenge.” In this series, there is, quite literally, not a long going on. “There are pauses between the actors that just don’t hold the same way. “We had to rewrite everything - we couldn’t just change the live-action stuff into animation,” Brammall said. Patrick Brammell as Cullen in the Season 3 live-action version of “No Activity.” CBS That said, there were big hurdles to overcome in order for “No Activity” to pivot to an animated format: from Trent O’Donnell’s direction to reworking the written-for-live-action episodes to the co-stars’ interactions - and even which style of animation, courtesy of Flight School Studio, best-suited the series. We thought, ‘If that gets us a Season 4, it’s a plus.’ “ “Then someone had the idea to switch to animation, which seemed like a crazy idea but was creatively interesting. “The show as on ice indefinitely for a couple of weeks and we thought that was it,” said series co-developer/writer/executive producer/star Patrick Brammall, 45, who plays series protagonist, FBI Special Agent Nick Cullen. “No Activity” was forced to get creative when the pandemic hit last spring and it quickly morphed from live-action to animation for Season 4 on Paramount+. How steamy Jane Austen show ‘Sanditon’ got un-cancelled Jake Johnson on new show ‘Minx:’ ‘The penis montage was very funny’ The nuclear nightmare that almost took out the East Coast From Jeff Bridges to ‘Game of Thrones’ spinoff: the hot summer shows