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'Columbia College Student Film', 'Muffy Meets the Mafia' and 'Changes' (lost and incomplete Genndy Tartakovsky student films; 1991-1994)
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{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/zlgv5-X3vHQ?t=5m10s|320x240|right|Keynote in which Genndy Tartakovsky mentions "Muffy Meets the Mafia" and showcases his other CalArts student film "Changes" (5:10 - 8:15).|frame}}
{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/zlgv5-X3vHQ?t=5m10s|320x240|right|Keynote in which Genndy Tartakovsky mentions "Muffy Meets the Mafia" and showcases his other CalArts student film "Changes" (5:10 - 8:15).|frame}}

Revision as of 15:27, 19 September 2015

Genndy's Scrapbook: The Story of Genndy Tartakovsky that discusses Genndy Tartakovsky's student films (5:41 - 13:07).

Keynote in which Genndy Tartakovsky mentions "Muffy Meets the Mafia" and showcases his other CalArts student film "Changes" (5:10 - 8:15).

Before becoming a much revered industry person and creator of Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack and Sym-Bionic Titan, Gendy Tartakovsky took an animation class at Columbia College Chicago and then studied animation at The California Institute of the Arts. At Columbia College, he made the three minute animated "Columbia College Student Film" and at CalArts, he wrote, directed, produced and animated two student films.

In "Columbia College Student Film" (1991), the plot is described by Tartakovsky as having a kid getting in trouble with his teacher and changing after going into a locker to then be chased by little wooly creatures. He painted it and did all camera work for it and says it was a mess.

His first year student film at CalArts was the silent black and white four-and-a-half minute movie "Muffy Meets the Mafia" (assumedly 1993) and it was about a cat who saves a dog and then can't shake the grateful canine. In his keynote, he said it was fully animated and very Tex Avery style and its full but not great animation is what caused his next student film to be unfinished (in animation, at least).

His second year student film served as the basis for his "Dexter's Laboratory" pilot on What A Cartoon!, perhaps in the same way "Whoopass Girls" and "Mess O' Blues" did for The Powerpuff Girls and Johnny Bravo respectively, and was selected for the Cal Arts Producers Show. It was called "Changes" (1994) and was a two-and-a-half minute (there may have been only one-and-a-half minutes of full animation) idea of a film and only half of it was barely animated because Tartakovsky wanted to make a whole lot of really good scenes. Dexter's accent originated from the student film because he only had his roomate's humorous french accent and it seemed like a funny fit. Impressed by his student films, Craig McCracken recommended him for an art director position with Hanna-Barbera. And when they were both working at the studio, one of their line producers, Larry Huber, saw it and said he should pitch it as a short. Tartakovsky hadn't even considered it. It was another producer who had come up with the idea he should do the boards and then he went with it. Although it's claimed here that Cartoon Network saw his work at an CalArts exhibition and wanted to make a pilot out of his "Changes" film. The "Dexter's Laboratory" pilot would also contain a battle between Dee Dee and Dexter with the creation that turns them into animals at the push of a button.

Only clips of "Columbia College Student Film" can be seen in Genndy's Scrapbook: The Story of Genndy Tartakovsky and only drawings from "Muffy Meets the Mafia" can be seen in Genndy Tartakovsky's keynote, while "Changes" was only partially shown in the same keynote (a clip not shown in this extract can be seen in Genndy's Scrapbook: The Story of Genndy Tartakovsky). On at leasta couple occasions, Tartakovsky publicly showcased his "Changes" student film and it also exists in the CalArts animation archives, but in terms of the other two student films, they may have been shown with "Changes" here, at least.