The Envelope Live screening series showcased Genndy Tartakovsky's Oscar-contending 'Primal: Tales of Savagery,' from the Adult Swim series.
The Envelope Live screening series continued Dec. 4 at the Montalbán in Hollywood with a presentation of the Oscar-contending animated feature “Primal: Tales of Savagery.” The theatrical release compiles the first four episodes of Genndy Tartakovsky’s current Adult Swim series, “Primal.” The animation hero was on hand to chat with The Times’ Michael Ordoña about his 2-D, adult-skewing, dialogue-free story of a caveman and a dinosaur bonded by tragedy in a violent world.
“I was in a creative rut and wanted to do something very different — I started working on it as a little short film, and I realized it could be so much more.” The characters’ lack of verbiage doesn’t mean they lack expression, said Tartakovsky, especially when it comes to sound designer Joel Valentine’s work on the dinosaur, Fang.
Tartakovsky has developed a following, in part for his distinctive animation style, which makes use of dynamic character positioning that sometimes resembles splash pages from comic books.“Posing is everything in animation. From the simplicity of Chuck Jones, the way he would do Bugs Bunny … to Jack Kirby, Frank Miller, a lot of the comic books I grew up with in the ‘70s, ‘80s. I can think back to specific drawings and poses from those comic books.
“By the time I got to CalArts, I thought I was hot ... I’ve got all this experience, I already did two years of film school. And we put our drawings up, and mine is like kid drawings, compared to all these professional, amazing illustrations. I was embarrassed. I didn’t know how I got into the school. I realized I had to work 10 times as much as anybody else just to get to the level where I could be accepted.
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