Roberto

I had the pleasure of going to Italy a couple of weeks ago to do an animation workshop for Nemo Academy in Florence. It's a great school and they are such lovely and generous people. I roughed out the first version of this test during the workshop and then I tied it down later when I got home.
The sound is Roberto Benigni from "Life is Beautiful" and he says, "Guardate che roba! Cartilagine mobile! Pieghevole! Trovatemi du (due) orecchi più belli di questi, e io me ne vado per carità!" which translates in English to, "Check it out! Movable cartilage! Bendable! Find two ears more beautiful than these and I'll leave!"
It was fun to try and animate something in Italian, and of course dogs are my favorite. This one kind of looks a bit like my own dog, Freddie.

[margheritaparacini]

“Look at this stuff! Soft cartilage, pliable! Find me two ears more beautiful than these and I go away, no biggie.”

[kitcalvert]

The animation is so fluid and lifelike, it actually feels like I’m being spoken to by an Italian speaking dog

[NickAndriadze]

I am so glad that an animator as legendary as James Baxter is active on a platform like YouTube. Creates less of a rift between the audience and the animator.

[PaperBee]

I love the tiny headshake when he says "carità" at the end, SO beautiful and just adds a perfect little touch that sells the character!

[LazzyRazzy]

The head rotations never cease to amaze me

[knitt_whitt]

The ears not moving in sync with each other add SO much life and depth to this. Absolutely phenomenal

[fossoso]

I am so grateful to see an animation made by James Baxter of a line of Roberto Benigni in Italian. Seeing the performance of an Italian actor directly translated into animation (and not the normal Italian dub over English animation) is just incredible. Grazie mille!
And sorry for the bad English 😅

[tgyk]

Hell yeah, love to see more Baxter moments. Thank you.

[This_Astro]

Roberto Benigni jumpscare?? I wasn't expecting him talking my language, but it was a pleasant surprise! ❤😂

[MrMiguel]

AI will never ever replace real art like this. I love you James, everything you do is amazing and I wish for you to be able to keep doing what you do for a long time.

[VanquishPelulu]

I LOVE HANDDRAWN ANIMATION!!! This looks like it was so much fun to animate! I love how alive the dog is.

[stealthlock]

Yes, little friend, you do have beautiful bendable cartilage ears!! I love how he’s demonstrating them as he talks!

[Serarel]

This is some of the most incredible animation i've ever seen

[sandrocleuzo]

Wonderful to see it completed! Thanks so much, James!!!

[JNSStudios]

Better than anything DIsney has put out in the past few years

[DonforthDHC]

When the world needed him most, he returned.

[Albortomagico]

As an italian, i am incredibly flattered :)

[DrawRed]

As an Italian and learning animator, I'm really happy you animated Roberto Begnini. He's vocie is really fitting into the character!

[mataschmata]

I didn't know you had a channel! you're such a legend to me. the way you animate perspective and dynamic shapes like they're 3d in your animations while maintaining expressions and character is something I always recognize instantly in your work and a skill i look up to.

[Cqat]

such a god at maintaining volume and proportion...