All rise! You have been summoned to enter a courtroom full of farce, puns and whimsy. A kangaroo court, perhaps?
Witness the comedy and chaos as Justice Kavanagh resides, a capricious kangaroo who is sharp as a tack and wouldn’t miss a trick.
Today’s case is brought forward by the professional sleuth O’Reilly: all is not fine in the world of fine art when paintings are discovered to be forged by the artist, the Aartvark.
Will the plaintiff be able to make his plea? Maybe if the Legal Beagle and Bearrister will stop bickering first.
Will the Aartvark get his legal justice or poetic justice? We await the verdict…
Witness the comedy and chaos as Justice Kavanagh resides, a capricious kangaroo who is sharp as a tack and wouldn’t miss a trick.
Today’s case is brought forward by the professional sleuth O’Reilly: all is not fine in the world of fine art when paintings are discovered to be forged by the artist, the Aartvark.
Will the plaintiff be able to make his plea? Maybe if the Legal Beagle and Bearrister will stop bickering first.
Will the Aartvark get his legal justice or poetic justice? We await the verdict…
The narrative is loosely based on the story of John Myatt, an artist who made his living selling ‘genuine fakes’, copying some of the most famous artist of the 20th century such as Chagall, Van Gogh and Matisse.
This animated short originates from having previously studied law and a continued interest in character design and Saturday morning cartoons. My aim is to inject humour in what is typically held to be a solemn and pompous scenario: to find the silly in the serious. The use of animal characters is to make the short appealing to a wide audience, keeping it fun enough for the kids and clever enough for the grown-ups.
Above: style frames and ref sheets for the animation.
Above: Development of the character cutouts used to frame the screen when the animation was on display.
