Jimmy Barrera/2007 Interview

Conducted with Cartoon Brew in May 2007, and was notably the last interview with Barrera before his death.

Script

 * Beck: So, what was your animation style? It seems it's changed a lot across the years...
 * Barrera: Well... I started with a style based on Chuck Jones for the tapes, but then, by the early 1990s, Matt Groening and his crew were... not pleased to say the least about how I used Jones' style for his characters for some animations, like, I based the scene of Bart getting shocked at the cops arriving on the scene from What's Opera, Doc? where Elmer Fudd got shocked at seeing what's assumedly a female rabbit, but is Bugs in drag, on a unicorn, and well... Groening's team didn't like using cartoonish reactions, and then, the budget cuts came, DreamWorks didn't like how much it was costing for storyboarding alone, so it basically transitioned into an almost-DiC like style nigh-overnight.