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Boutilier didn’t start with aspirations in animation. “All I ever wanted to do was a daily comic strip. I got sidelined to animation because I thought it would be good discipline.” After a one-year art program in 1996 following Vancouver film school, Boutilier started storyboarding for AKA Cartoon, working on BBC’s Aaagh! It’s the Mr. Hell Show and Cartoon Network’s famous Ed Edd & Eddy series He was enlisted at Studio B in 2001. “I was a storyboard artist or storyboard supervisor on virtually every project since,” he says.
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First conceived for Studio B’s in-house development program, B-Hive, Look What My Sister Dragged In has traveled to festivals around the world and was one of the top 15 projects at last year’s MIPCOM Jr. pilots.
“It’s loony in the classic style of old chase cartoons, but it’s becoming much more than that,” says Boutilier. “It’s storyboard-driven, not script-driven. The artists are encouraged to go crazy with their art.” He adds, “I prefer the real simple stories of chaos spinning off something really simple and really silly. That, I think, is good storytelling.” |
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