Matthew Benjamin "Matt" Braly is an American writer, animator, storyboard artist, director, and voice actor.
Matt Braly grew up listening to his grandmother tell stories about her life as a little girl in the Philippines. This inspired him to get into animation so that he can tell his own stories. Before arriving at Disney Television Animation, he worked at other studios, such as DreamWorks Animation on the feature film Turbo and an episode of Steven Universe on Cartoon Network.
Once he got hired at Disney, he started working as a storyboard artist and director on Gravity Falls and also got to do additional work on DuckTales and Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer. He began working on episodes for Big City Greens when he left that show to start his own.
He created Amphibia, loosely based on his grandmother's childhood as well as his own fascination for frogs. He also provides additional voices and voiced Chuck in the episodes "The Big Bugball Game", "Handy Anne", "Maddie & Marcy", and "Battle of the Bands", Frobo in the episodes "Friend or Frobo?" and "True Colors", and appears as himself in "Sprig's Birthday".
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Trivia[]
- He described Megara of Hercules as "one of [his] favorite Disney characters".[1] He is also a fan of the Disney animated series Pepper Ann.[2] Braly is also a fan of Gargoyles, which he named as one of the influences for Amphibia.[3] He also said that Lilo & Stitch is among his favorite movies.[4]
- Braly said that he would like to create an animated TV series follow-up to Alice in Wonderland "that was terrifying and on acid".[5]
- Braly is a fan of Keith David, who voices King Andrias in Amphibia.[6]
- He is a fan of The Legend of Zelda franchise.[6] He described The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild as one of his favorite video games and an inspiration for Amphibia.[7][8]
- Braly is a fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.[9] Ironically, Braly served as an additional character designer in the DuckTales episode "Woo-oo!", while DuckTales star, Ben Schwartz (who voiced Dewey in the reboot) voiced Sonic in the 2020 live-action/CGI film adaptation as well as its 2022 sequel.
- He considers the season finale for Amphibia, "The Hardest Thing", to be his favorite episode in the entire show.
References[]
- ↑ HERE’S EVERY GUEST STAR HOPPING INTO THE SECOND SEASON
- ↑ According to the AMA on the #Amphibia subreddit, creator Matt Braly @Radrappy, is a huge fan of Pepper Ann. Braly says that Anne's design somewhat took some influence on the character.
- ↑ Talking Amphibia On Disney Channel With Matt Braly – Exclusive
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Matt Braly' Reddit AMA
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Matt Braly Dives in to Second Season of His Hit Show ‘Amphibia’
- ↑ Matt Braly' Reddit AMA
- ↑ Matt Braly' Reddit AMA
- ↑ As a Sonic fan, you get so used to failure and disappointment that you have no idea what to do when success finally comes around. I mean, what are we supposed to do now?
