Wannabe cartoonist
Might share thingz on the occasion. If you wanna see more I post on bluesky more atm
I did some animation for ANTONBLAST @ summitsphere!!!
NO…I’M NOT DOING IT:
An Inadequate Tribute and Refusal to say “Goodbye” to ERIC BAUZA
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I had a special fondness for Eric Bauza.
That doesn’t make me unique.
Everybody who had the pleasure of meeting the guy had a special fondness for him, because he was just that type of person.
But Eric teetered in that special place between Generation X and Generation Y, which meant he was young enough to have boundless energy and enthusiasm, but old enough to remember what it was like to sit in front of Saturday morning television, eating cereal, drawing Bugs Bunny and doing the voice at the same time in an almost a religious ceremony of spiritual devotion, where the young budding cartoonist becomes one with the cartoon itself.
That was the dream. Not only to draw the cartoons, but to become the characters.
He wasn’t the first animator to do voices, but most of the time when an artist did voices it was for a character they created (Mike Judge, John K. etc.).
When I broke into animation, one of the first and most disappointing wake-up calls I got was just how segregated all the different divisions were.
Character designers mostly hung out with character designers, storyboard artists with storyboard artists, background artists with background artists - and none of those artists were allowed to rub elbows with the voiceover talent.
That’s just how it was.
It seemed completely antithetical to the cartoon-making process, but I was told in no uncertain terms not to fight it, and by all means abandon any hope of ever doing voices for the cartoons you work on. It seemed a little unfair, but let’s be honest: most of us aren’t as good as we think we are at doing voices anyway.
Then along came Eric.
He was just too good to be ignored.
He did what so many of us only dreamed of achieving:
He became the cartoon.
Not only did he become the cartoon, he earned the mantle of the greatest cartoon character of all time.
And he was just so frigging nice you couldn’t help but stand up and cheer him on.
He was the living embodiment of what it meant to live, love, eat, sleep, drink, and bask in the world of animation and cartoons.
He was the chosen one.
I hate that he’s gone, and I don’t expect to see another like him in my lifetime.
Saying goodbye feels impossible, and I’m not ready to do it yet.
Looney Tunes: Sheep Raider (PS1) added to the library: Ralph Wolf, Sam Sheepdog, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Marvin the Martian and more with animations, levels with animated props, waterfalls, lava and tornadoes, in-game fog, Game Show Studio with its crowd.
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Drawing ✍🏼 Lessons for 60 parents & kids from around the world 🌎 (over Zoom) today for @spacejammovie … let’s see if I can still do this.. 😅 @WBLooneyTunes ✏️🎨
Eric Bauza dying might be the worst thing to happen to animation in like decades, im so fr, that man was the modern day Mel blanc. He was SO passionate about carrying on those characters to the modern day, he was such an amazing actor and created so many characters of his own.
The news about Erica Bauza is shocking and devastating.
He was an artists' artist who truly cared about his craft and his peers.
This is a tremendous loss to all those to whom he brought joy. My heart goes out to his family!
Many people don't know that along with his voice acting talent, Eric Bauza was a great cartoonist as well. His passing leaves behind a great big hole in the cartoon world, and he will be very missed. RIP
Another one of my plush design submissions made it to the @ytzcommunity board! This time based on Japanese Crash! Go vote if you wanna see this come to life!
#CrashBandicoot#youtooz
It's (finally) official: ANTONBLAST is coming to PlayStation 5... AND you can play it TOMORROW, October 15! We would have liked to be there sooner, but Happy Hour kept frying the test kits at Sony. Who knew they'd have a problem with that?
"Is that it?!" No, of course not!