Re:Relationship? Sci Fi, animators and Chuck and Chris!
[quote=”SadGeezer”]It seemed that his and Chucks role had been greatly reduced and that he and others weren’t too happy about it….. I can’t remember the exact words so the above shouldn’t be taken too literally.
[i](Headge, do you remember any of this? It [b]was[/b] Chris’s site wasn’t it?)[/i][/quote]
The message you’re referring to was the last update by the duo on trippingtherift.com before the website was taken over by whomever.
It was an emotional response, which occasionally contradicted itself. Unfortunately, I did not save the message, or any other text (and most pictures on the site) as I figured that the site would always be up. I never thought that we’d become the repository for all things tripping. Had I known, I would have downloaded the entire site.
The last message went something to effect of this: (In quotes are exact words)
Chris Moeller and Chuck Austin were “deemed expendable” and cut from the project. They didn’t go into detail, and they didn’t answer any emails about it (to my knowledge). They were clearly upset by this development, which is completely understandable.
The two, went on to thank the fans of the short for all their support an patience over the years. He claimed that he was crying in happiness and pride when he saw the creativity of one of the fans, who created a Chode squeeze toy.
It was brought up about TTR2, and that it was never that great, and that it was crapped up when too many people contributed ” too many cooks” This contradicted earlier comments that the seconds cartoon was great, hilarious etc. I’m not sure but I think they said that we’ll have to wait a bit longer for the second cartoon.
To conclude, they mentioned that it was sort of a relief that they no longer have to worry about the show and that “a great load has been lifted off [their] shoulders” I didn’t buy that part though. I really thought that if they were asked back on the show they would have accepted. I think that they may have mentioned that now that TTR is over they could concentrate on their other projects like King of the Hill.