Few filmmakers have ever drawn quite the reaction that Corky Quakenbush does each year when The Animation Show tours. We’ve featured Corky’s stop-motion work in 3 of the last 4 Animation Show’s and typically fans worship his gnarly misfit characters while critics attack head on. This year his three Yompi shorts are the showcases target. Love em or hate em these are characters you won’t soon forget. Taylor caught up with Corky back in May to shed a light on all his latest handiwork. I’ll try to keep up with links below. One topic that wasn’t touched on was the Aikido classes Corky also teaches out of his studio in Culver City. There’s a ton of these on Youtube to enjoy and instruct as well as many more animations by Mr. Quakenbush.
THE ANIMATION SHOW YEAR 4 Theatrical
Corky Quakenbush
Animator, “Yompi” (2007)
Interviewer: Taylor Jessen
Date: 5/27/2008
Via phone from Los Angeles
Animation Show: You are now sporting a lot of interesting shorts at SuperDeluxe.com. Tell me how you hooked up with them.
Corky Quakenbush: Well, actually, they found me. They were looking for, you know, interesting content and people who had a record of producing short films that many people enjoyed, and I was glad to fit into that category.
AS: They’re commissioning more from you?
CQ: Yes they are.
AS: That’s good.
CQ: And the other person I’ve been doing short film work for is NationalBanana.com, and that’s been very enjoyable too. That’s Jerry Zucker’s website. I don’t know if you know who Jerry Zucker is.
AS: Hell yeah!
CQ: Most people do, but I’m surprised at how many people don’t. But I think they know more “the Zucker Brothers” than they do “Jerry” or “David.”
AS. Well you’ve got these tendrils of history going back into lots of really important, interesting comedy people who are trying to make it in the 70s, and doing things on stage, and then bringing the stage work to film, and then bringing film work to TV. We talked about that last time, which I don’t know if that’s every going to be put into the public sphere—a really fascinating conversation—which is Corky’s life story, but..
CQ: Well you’re probably talking about Harry Shearer and the folks from Spinal Tap.
Entire Interview Here |