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Recent graduate Brock Gallagher’s film “The Peasant and the Root” is a-ma-zing. Amazing. I know I’m supposed to be all journalismy about it, but seriously, it’s great. Keep reading…

Channel Frederator: Where did you study animation?

Brock Gallagher: At Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario Canada.

CF: What has influenced your style the most?

BG: I’d say classic cartoons, like older Hanna Barbera stuff, Jay Ward, classic MGM and Warner Bros shorts. Designers like Ed Benedict and directors like Ward Kimball. My film was my homage to all those guys.

CF: This story is so cool! Where did you get the idea for the film?

BG: Thank you! I was reading about the real legends surrounding the bypassing of a mandrake root’s scream to acquire one, and almost all versions of the myth featured a dog getting sacrificed.

I wanted to make a cartoon where the dog wins everything!

CF: Do you have any upcoming projects you can tell us about?

BG: I certainly plan to make more shorts like this! Right now I’m just concentrating on landing that first job out of school. That’s a project, I think.

CF: Ever try to get a coveted object, only to have it turn out to be a bust?

BG: Once. But I was trying to get a bust of Julius Ceasar, so my plan worked perfectly.

Nice.

You can watch Brock’s film “The Peasant and The Root” right here on Channel Frederator!

-Bailee DesRocher