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It's daunting, but fun. When and Ed Catmull instituted the new shorts program at Animation Studios, they not only wanted it to emulate 's successful program, but also to reinvigorate the Disney legacy characters in 2D. It was included in the Animation Show of Shows in The format allows each of the characters to have their own personality set pieces. Both versions of the cartoon were released on the first "have a laugh! There's a lot of development. But unlike the old Gong Show days at Disney, Lasseter and Catmull prefer the more artist-friendly approach they've perfected at Pixar, in which you pitch a portfolio of three ideas, meeting initially with the Disney story trust, which consists of top directors and story artists. Otherwise, they look like they're unfocused. I got to meet Art Babbitt way back a few times and he gave Goofy the personality in the beginning. Goofy is so pliable. Voice Cast Bill Farmer - Goofy Trivia The two sports teams are called the Dawgs and the Geefs, both references to two of Goofy's alternate names over the years: Dippy Dawg his earliest incarnation and George Geef his name from his s "everyman" shorts. Instead of animating with pencil on paper, some of the animators, such as Dale Baer, worked on Wacom's cintiq tablets along with Toon Boom Harmony for the animation, while other animators such as and Andreas Deja continued to work in the traditional method with pencil on paper. He probably did the craziest animation too in those How to cartoons. I kept one thing in mind. Shapes are stylized and pushed, and the proportions are exaggerated, but the environments and detail are photoreal. You recognized that everyone had a warm, fuzzy nostalgia for what they remember and that the Goofy shorts were really all over the map. And, somehow, even though that sounds like a technical thing, it adds to the personality and a comic quality to the way he moves like an acrobat. I'm very proud of what Kevin and Stevie have done with How to Hook Up Your Home Theater because he's exactly in the style of the How to shorts, but it's subject matter that's totally relevant for today's audience, and that juxtaposition is so entertaining. It's so much fun to go back and try things with them. In other words, he took the streamlining thing and made it fun and elastic, so if Goofy smiled, you could really see the splay on the jowels, and every time he grabbed something, his fingers would splay out -- the art of Goofyness, so to speak. That's the great thing about animation. Nessie, also in 2D, is a continuation of a student project Wermers began at CalArts. The director of the shorts program describes it as "serious, suspenseful and arty," with new texture development as its technical innovation. After that, Deters and Wermers would like to do another Goofy short. Great animation, as they know how to do here. Meanwhile, Deters and Wermers are halfway through their second short, The Ballad of Nessie, a sweet origin story about a female Loch Ness monster. And then there are the little things: Goofy's eyes can be very bland if you don't put them slightly together. It's as if you could transplant a great comedian from the past, in their prime, and bring them into the present. One of the fun scenes I did was Goofy around the speakers. John immediately recognized the great marriage of Disney and something you could relate to today. If you look at it frame-by-frame, you see I'm trying to do a zillion kinds of leg actions as an homage to the Sibley style of animation. I love both studios being a part of that. They have a bottom light where you can see where your characters bend and where they're going, so you can actually check out your arcs. But even that you can play with in terms of wrinkles and secondary action in the way that he moves. Contents [ show ] Production The short was partially produced using a new "paperless" production pipeline for Disney, the first major change in production technique for hand-drawn animation at Disney since the introduction of CAPS, and was also an attempt to see if the new digital animation tools could be used to produce a short with the same graphic look as that of a s cartoon. In the style of The Everyman cartoons of the s, this short follows Goofy as he buys and then sets up his home theater system, to watch football. And you can put the background level down. And it's very artistic -- these festivals are about the art of animation, not just the commerce. The first scene I got was Goofy trying to open up the cable box. One thing we discovered quickly was [that they had just come out] with The Complete Goofy on DVD, so that was a godsend. It's about finding what works best for individuals, what works best for the pipeline and as an ongoing process that will continue to evolve on some of the other features we're working on as well. This is where talent development is really great.