showcase: ‘Scary Larry’ – Mercury Filmworks/Lagardere Entertainment/1492 Pictures/Timoon Animation

By sir warren b leonhardt on February 24, 2011

A USA/France/Canada co-production, this teaser trailer for a proposed series ‘Scary Larry’ does a pretty good job of looking good for the budget, thanks to the folks at Ottawa’s Mercury Filmworks. Animated entirely with ToonBoom. I hope the series can maintain this level of ‘limited-full’ animation. No North American distro is lined up yet, as far as I can tell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCYBErthk1U&feature=player_embedded

Read more about ‘Little Gloomy’, the long-standing original comic that this teaser is based on, in this 11 year old interview HERE, announcements about the project HERE, HERE, and HERE. Also, a short-lived blog of trying to launch this project as written by the co-creator & writer of ‘Little Gloomy’, Landry Walker, can be found HERE.

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Warren Leonhardt spent too much time watching tv, reading comics, or doodling in his math textbooks to really pay attention, but he thinks he was raised the Kootenays of British Columbia by two grownups and a sister. After realizing that cartoons and animated films don’t make themselves but were actually made by people, he decided to become one of those people. Over time he’s managed to fool companies like House of Cool, Disney Canada, Spümcø, Sony Pictures Animation, Blue Sky Studios and Corus into actually paying him money to draw funny pictures and generally goof around as a storyboard artist for animated features and television. He currently lives in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada with his long-suffering wife and toddler. In between drawing till his hand falls off and fending off the wildlife invading his property, he interviews people more interesting than himself for CAR.CA.