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elodeon kind of by accident after myself and 5 other rugrats writers had pitched several ideas we had come up with together we talked for an hour or so and were out of ideas so we pulled comics and other things out of our briefcases just trying to find out what mary liked i showed her my videotape reel of old penny cartoons that i had done for pee wee s playhouse at the front of the reel were 3 arnold cartoons that i had made myself in the claymation penny style that got mary s attention i then showed her some arnold comics that i had drawn for simpsons illustrated and it seems that one particular panel of arnold screaming was the real clincher for her she laughed and laughed when the meeting adjourned mary buttonholed me outside and said that she wanted to pursue arnold further we six rugrats writers then adjourned to a pizza place and debriefed about the meeting the other five guys sensed that i had somehow gotten my own show out of the group meeting paul germain said arnold is gonna go to series mark my words i met with mary over the next four months refining a pilot outline and the pilot was greenlit in january the pilot was made in 94 and the series was greenlit a year later 6 what is your opinion on the way network s buy or develop shows what would you change about that if you could i have been in development for years since i went to cartoon network at the end of 2001 i ve pitched to them to nick to disney i ve met most of the development people in that world no development person is obligated to tell you when your idea is dead with them in other words to put it out of its misery and allow you to move on they just don t return your calls and emails and let you guess 7 do show creators get stereotyped as comedy or action or preschool or adult etc if so what can be done about it as the creator of hey arnold i am considered soft it s really annoying i tried to break away from that by pitching a show to spike called hellville a show that takes place in heaven and hell heaven is like a weird cult and hell is pretty much sex drugs and rock and roll spike passed on the show but i send that script out so people won t stereotype me 8 what role has attending animation festivals events played in your career i go to the local events in l a but have only been to a couple international ones hiroshioma and annecy haven t won anything at a festival the international animation community is great 9 what methods of self promotion have you employed to get your name out there hardly any i keep thinking that my resume should speak for itself 10 are you a member of any animation art or entertainment guilds or organizations if so what role has that played in your career i m in the academy of motion picture arts and sciences i go to the screenings a lot because their goldwyn theater in beverly hills is the best place to watch a movie anywhere the audience is appreciative they stay through the credits it s where grownups watch movies i guess it s also for networking but i m pretty low key about it i just love the movies and i like to be on the nominating committee for animated features you get to see the whole field of features that come out every year i ve been in sag since the start of hey arnold which provides my health benefits and i just joined the writers guild a week ago because i m writing a live action movie for nick paramount we ll see what that involves 11 how do you stay on top of industry news and trends i like to read variety excellent reviews of film tv and legit they have great columnists like brian lowry and editor peter bart 12 what books should be in every animation library i love leonard maltin s history of mice and magic and preston blair s cheap paperback books for drawing tips 13 have you gotten to meet or work with any of your animation heroes if so whom and in what capacity matt groening is my brother in law i enjoy walking through the comiccon with matt because that s a world where every single person knows who he is the guys who started drawing the simpsons david silverman wes archer and brad bird were just a bunch of guys at klasky csupo once upon a time when we were starting rugrats and now they are big shots brad s career has been amazing if you go to festivals you can meet the international animators like plympton newland preistley dreissen these indies are always very nice people 14 how different was the original vision for yourshow from what made it to the screen hey arnold morphed hugely from claymation short to indie pilot to series and even continued to evolve as the years went by and we found new ways to draw it some people felt that its original spaghetti arms look of the first season was better than where it ended up oh well we did our best 15 is there any specific legal advice you d pass along to future creators get a good lawyer and read your deal try to get some kind of ownership profit participation if they won t give it find someplace else that will 16 what are the typical daily duties of a creator show runner on a tv series or feature production each show is different i concentrated on the story aspect was most involved at the beginning and the end post production parts of each cartoon i love making the cut being responsible for getting each show to length and the mix is always fun i never miss it 17 over time has the amount of creative work you delegate to others grown if so how has that reshaped the show i stayed in it as much as i could delegating most of the art means that if your artists change so will your show but it s impossible not to delegate it would make you crazy to do all of it 18 how important if it all have self initiated independent films or projects been to your career my arnold shorts got it all started i think everyone who wants to create a cartoon should try to make their own short to get the ball rolling your own short reveals your sense of art story timing humor tone it tells much more than just pitching your idea ever could make a short posted by david b levy at 6 21 am 3 comments friday march 16 2012 bow tie yah yah yah i am so late to the party as an adolescent i drew hundreds of short comic books with original characters and stories sharing them with a close circle of friends handing my comic to a friend was my release date it was me and my audience with nothing in between so when youtube launched in 2005 did i snap up the new opportunity to make and distribute my own short cartoons a la the comic books of my youth nope it took me until 2012 but better late than never the catalyst to create and share my own cartoons was my recent pitch trip to l a where i once again experienced the deflating feeling of sitting through the average network pitch where execs poke prod and judge your creation sometimes they liked it sometimes they didn t and no matter how professional and pleasant the meetings go the results are nearly always the same no dice but instead of hitting the hotel bar i used my evenings to record new cartoon soundtracks into my iphone when i got home i was ready to try out some new ideas and experiment with a blend of characters stories and comedy a month later i had 4 minutes of original cartoons and to further connect it to my childhood comic books i used a character that dates back to when i was 13 years old bow tie this has been an opportunity to explore odd little moments of everyday life by turning autobiographical events into fodder for short and hopefully funny cartoons ordinary life can be a wonderful source of inspiration emily hubley has based several films on entries in her personal journals such as her memorable film one self fish girl don hertzfeldt packs a lot of autobiographical material into his groundbreaking trilogy of films yuri norstein included a recurring fight with his mother in law over an umbrella in the lovely the heron and the crane signe baumane mined some private material in her brilliant and funny teat beat of sex series when you start with something personal you might be surprised what bubbles up sometimes the result is bittersweet sometimes mundane sometimes plain odd sometimes weird sometimes painful but most often with an i know that feeling quality so far the most popular cartoon of the bunch has even been passed around as a birthday greeting best of all since these are stories from life it s impossible to run out of material bow tie episodes start as a list of anecdotes that i use as talking points to create a spontaneous script i do all the voices myself another new experience for me recording in story order from beginning to end most sound effects are verbal too and occasionally supplemented by foley pulled in my apartment next i lock the audio in after effects making a radio play of sorts when it feels right i start animation after a couple of hours i m finished and importing the layers into ae for testing a critical next step is showing the test to my wife debbie who has a great eye and sense of humor often she ll have a key note or set of suggestions that always improve upon the original then in no time flat it s uploaded to the aphids j kaboodle channel on youtube every wednesday morning i release a new cartoon by posting it on facebook and enthusiastic feedback has poured in from friends and industry folks alike i even set up a zazzle store with t shirts featuring bow tie and friends development execs and networks like to define and lock down creations that bow tie drives a car in one episode and is driven around by his friend s mom in another acts like a kid in one and has a job in the next wouldn t make sense to them but it makes perfect sense to me most importantly it s the perfect outlet for almost instant self expression in animation i can t tell you how gratifying it has been to see friends and colleagues spreading the word by sharing the cartoon links through twitter facebook and e mail bow tie was even part of the shorts screening at the on going comedy film festival the iron mule at the tribeca 92nd street y where aphids won the audience award so who is aphids j kaboodle you might be sick of david b levy and david b levy might be sick of you but aphids is brand new and can t wait to start alienating people i hope you take a minute or two to visit the aphids j kaboodle channel on youtube and maybe subscribe and if you re moved to share a cartoon or two with your friends mr kaboodle is in your debt have fun and remember that it s okay to be late to the party so long as you eventually arrive and bring a six pack of cider posted by david b levy at 8 52 am 8 comments sunday march 11 2012 pushing for poe sometimes a single opportunity can allow us to support a worthy project a friend and help promote an art form itself on march 6th oscar nominated filmmaker michael sporn announced his first ever kickstarter campaign to help raise funds to complete a few minutes of final animation for his animated feature film poe it s my pleasure to use this week s animondays post to help his cause first on the project of poe everyone who works in animation or enjoys the medium as a fan has something to gain by supporting this film today animation is flourishing in mainstream feature films for children and families through special effects in big action blockbusters through innovative video games in prime time and late night programing for adults in preschool and children s tv entertainment as well as through the new media platforms of ebooks and apps but the one area that has the most untapped potential is in the intelligent and artful indie animated feature poe is the rare project where subject medium and filmmaker including collaborators such as the brilliant animator tissa david may all line up to help create something that can t be found anywhere else michael happens to be a friend of mine but even if you don t know him he s probably already helped you become a more thoughtful animator through his insightful and inspirational splog posts since 2005 and maybe also stretched your perception of what the animated film can be on the latter his studio has led by example since 1980 making some of the most artful daring and affecting animated films of all time go to the screenings button on this link to see this month s tv schedule peppered with opportunities to see some of his films a few of my all time favorites include dr desoto abel s island morris s disappearing bag the man who walked between the towers mona mon amour champagne ira sleeps over the marzipan pig and the hunting of the snark as the owner operator of one of the longest standing independent studios in the history of us animation and through his formative years being trained in the art and craft of animation by the likes of john hubley tissa david and richard williams michael is a key creative link between animation s golden age and today michael has said that with poe he d like to give animation a grown up push as grown ups who both love and work in animation let s help the man push posted by david b levy at 12 07 pm no comments saturday march 3 2012 a secret world of quiet dignity i didn t plan on writing about the secret world of arrietty the new feature film from japan s studio ghibli and directed by hiromasa yonebayashi but after seeing the movie this week there was no way i couldn t write about it first some criticism spoiler alert because i had some issues with the film the mother felt pretty one dimensional and old fashioned in the hysterical female stereotype not to mention the oddness that she looked more like arrietty s grandmother than her mother also it was hard for me to believe that such a feisty and independent heroine could be raised by such a fearful mother in contrast the dad was all quiet stoicism he was the calm to the mother s storm but knowing how miyazaki who co wrote the screenplay is an expert in coloring characters with shades of gray i wondered why he gave us such one dimensional parental units my second and only other issue in the film is that when arrietty is tested to do big things to save her mother s life her father is inexplicably absent maybe i missed something but it seemed to me that there was no explanation on where the father was when the borrowers home was invaded and the mother was abducted earlier we see the father had an injured leg but there s no way that would have stopped him from protecting his family i wonder if something was lost in the english translation but these issues aside i really enjoyed the film it would be easy to frame any discussion about this work in the 2d versus 3d context but the qualities i love about arrietty have little to do with that in fact the models of the characters in this film are so rigidly and stiffly followed in the animation that they may as well be unchanging 3d character rigs for me the magic of this film is how it conveys big feelings and emotional moments through a low key approach i ve been trying to explore a similar approach in my recent short films there s a moment in arriet...