Wednesday, August 29, 2007

New... er, old animation!



Looney Tunes Animation from handdrawn and Vimeo.


So here's some more animation as promised! It's pretty old stuff (so please no uninvited critiques :), but still fun! I was 20 when I was working on this film (Looney Tunes: Back in Action) and it was quite the learning experience! Frankly, I was scared stiff the first half of my experience on the film. Coming straight from art school into having to meet footage qouta's, learning how to take direction and not take it personally, and relaxing enough to make great animation was fairly difficult for me to balance at first. Ya know, getting your animation looked at by nobody but you and your peers and then all of the sudden trying to please Eric Goldberg was, ummmm, daunting!! He was very gracious and patient with me though-- and I am greatful for that! I learned a lot.

To be honest I never really was all that interested in THIS type of animation. I wasn't a Looney Tunes nut growing up, I was too busy watching Pinnochio and studying Glen Keane and James Baxter. But I sure loosened up on this stuff! You really gotta know how to push shapes, and still keep things solid with this stuff. But it's really about comedy, and timing is the key. Comedy and Drama are 2 seperate artforms, but equally as challenging.

Anyhow have fun watching, this was my last shot on the film and you won't see it in the finished film because it the entire sequence got cut. That actually seemed to happen quite a bit to me on that film, bummer! Cheers!

11 comments:

  1. Hey Matt, email me at armen@pomegran8.com.
    Cool design work!

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  2. Good stuff as always Mr. Mat.

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  3. Armen and Young: Thanks guys!! Armen, I just wrote you.

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  4. you were 20?!!! *weeps* your amazing!

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  5. Bwahahah, glen keane for the win, even today i cant stop studying the guy. Animating feels like such a rush.

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