Cartoon Characters and Their Universe: Create Another World
Influences
A course by Butch Hartman , Cartoon Artist
About the video: Influences
Overview
“My influences come from many different places, but all based on entertainment and storytelling. In this lesson, I’ll share with you my main influences, so you can get inspired.”
In this video lesson Butch Hartman addresses the topic: Influences , which is part of the Domestika online course: Cartoon Characters and Their Universe: Create Another World. Build your own cartoon narrative filled with endearing characters using a combination of analogue and digital tools.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In the last lesson, we learned a bit about me. Let's get into my influences and inspirations to get you inspired. This presentation is all about my influences, what I grew up loving and what really inspired me as I became the artist I became. I really wanted to always work somehow in the cartoon industry. When I was growing up, the only way to really view cartoons and to see them was on television. They're only on a very limited amount of channels, only on certain times of the week. It was a lot harder to watch cartoons, back then, than it is today, obviously, with so much media ...”
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Butch Hartman
A course by Butch Hartman
Butch Hartman is an award-winning cartoon artist from the United States. He has been a fan of cartoons, movies, and comic books since he was a child and grew up creating stories and shooting his own movies. He later went on to study at the art school founded by Walt Disney, California Institute of Arts. After graduating, he began his career in the television animation industry, working on the 1986 version of My Little Pony.
Since then, Butch has gone on to work for studios like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network on iconic cartoons including, Tom and Jerry Kids, Droopy Master Detective, Dexter’s Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, and more. His work has received multiple Emmy Awards and he himself has been nominated for several. Butch also created his own children’s app, The Noog Network, and has written and produced live action films, including one for his famous animated show, The Fairly OddParents. He has also grown an impressive social media following with over 800,000 subscribers on YouTube and 1.7 million followers on TikTok, and he hosts his own podcast, Speech Bubble.
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