The animator found the baby and toddler characters to be too limiting in what they could do physically, and he wanted to create something with a much freer form of character animation. He not only directed the show's pilot, but he co-designed the main characters and helped establish the overall look of the show with Arlene Klasky and Gabor Csupo.ĭespite the fact that Rugrats and Aeon Flux seem to have nothing in common besides Chung and their parent company- both MTV and Nickelodeon are owned by Viacom- Chung's time on Rugrats ended up having a huge impact on the creation of Aeon Flux.
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But in terms of truly original creations, Chung's biggest and most well-known pre- Aeon work was on the Nickelodeon series Rugrats. Peter Chung had a pretty impressive resume prior to creating Aeon Flux, including storyboard artist on both the 1984 Transformers series and 1986 animated film, and art direction, character design, and opening title design on the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. Here are 15 Things You Didn't Know about Aeon Flux.
The pair's complicated dynamic of simultaneously being enemies and lovers, shooting guns at each other one minute and ripping each other's clothes off the next, made Batman and Catwoman's relationship look like a functional storybook romance.Īeon Flux eventually graduated from a series of Liquid Television shorts to its own half-hour series, a graphic novel, a four-issue comic book run, a video game, and a feature film. In the early '90s, MTV ran a series called Liquid Television, a showcase for avant-garde animated short films. The biggest breakout from that show (besides those teenage morons named Beavis and Butt-Head) was animator Peter Chung's strange series of action shorts titled Aeon Flux.įeaturing bizarre, slightly unsettling animation set in an oppressive dystopian future, Aeon Flux starred the titular secret agent, who looked like a cross between an assassin and a dominatrix. In between freelance gigs, Aeon's primary, ongoing mission was to take down Trevor Goodchild- that is, when she could manage to keep her tongue out of his mouth.
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