File puptcrit/puptcrit.0803, message 195


Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:00:36 -0700
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
From: Steve Axtell <steve-AT-axtell.com>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Character Design


At 11:22 PM 3/11/2008, you wrote:
.......

>Example: I am crazy about the Brain, in the 
>Warner Brothers cartoon "Pinky and the Brain", 
>because he has great eye focus, a huge brain 
>that is directly related to his character 
>concept (smart), and an unusually dark gaze for 
>a non-evil character. He also has a look that is 
>unlike any other mouse or rat character out 
>there, without taking away the credibility. His 
>facial features squished together and made small 
>by the hugeness of the head surrounding them 
>makes him look huge despite his small stature.
>(I wish I could add details about how he is 
>constructed, his "grid", but that's exactly what I'm trying to figure out).

I was having lunch with some studio guys in 
Burbank and sitting next to me was a man so 
resembling the Brain it was uncanny.  As I got 
talking with him, it was indeed a studio exec at 
nickelodeon and he mentioned that the animators 
had used him as the model for the Pinky and the 
Brain.  I can't remember his name..



Steve Axtell
Axtell Expressions, Inc.
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