Process and Production: Research 2: Tex Avery

Someone that I really admire a great deal when it comes to animation and visual comedy is Tex Avery. Avery was one of the main leading directors of the Looney Tunes and a very influential animator from the golden age. He was a major part of creating and/or popularising and developing characters such as Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Droopy. 

His use of exaggeration was incredible as he took it to a new level that no one had really done before. He stretched his characters further than anyone would think to try. He had some really great ideas of how to convey emotions in very comical and visually interesting ways. By expressing the characters in such an absurd way it added a extra shock value to the moment, often catching the audience off guard, hence making them laugh. 

This example shows how he communicated a moment of extreme shock. Instead of just widening the eyes and opening the mouth, he made this characters limbs detach and fly off the body for a moment as the whole character hovers in the air. 

He wanted to make cartoons that could appeal to adults as well as children. There was something for everyone in his films. He frequently broke the 4th wall with his characters addressing the audience directly or popping up in the credits. This made the characters seems more real and was a very new and interesting use of them.