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Matt Braly

Matt Braly

American animator and storyboard artist

Apr 3, 2026

9:57
[laughs]
9:58
Uh, yep.
9:58
Um, Alex, this is something we were talking about earlier, but what's so exciting about this pairing, about Dipper and Pacifica, is that Dipper is normally very ...
10:07
He, he doesn't have a lot of confidence.

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21:39
The natives of Gravity Falls, he came to them in their dreams and said, "Build me a portal," and they're like, "Nope." [laughs] But they made tapestries of it.
21:46
Where's my phone? I don't have it.
21:47
Yes you do.
21:47
Love the Zen tag joke.
9:16
And, like, this stuff that, you know, Dipper's going through, Soos is still [laughs] going through this.
9:20
Um, so this is all Sabrina Cotugno's section, and it was all marvelously boarded.
9:24
This was, uh, her first, uh, boarding-

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18:47
I was like, "Can we do that?" They're like, "I guess we can."
18:48
A great solution.
18:49
That's amazing, the way the, the slight resistance on the hand going through that arcade machine is incredible.
18:54
This was so real, this fight.
18:56
[laughs]
3:47
Uh, Matt, can you tell us a little bit about the boarding of this episode?
3:49
Yeah, absolutely.
3:50
So the, um, the boards for this episode were done by, uh, Alonso Ramirez Ramos, um, Emmy, uh ...
4:00
Oh, I'm getting this all wrong.
4:01
Uh, come back to that.
4:02
Come back to that.
4:03
[laughs]
4:16
Matt, even though he was a director, boarded, uh, the vast, a, a huge amount of this episode, did an amazing job.
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9:49
We really won.
9:49
Yeah, no, it was good.
9:50
I wrote, I wrote, like, a w- way too many page extended sequence of all the different jobs and sh- It was like basically like a day in the, "Here's how Soos manages it," and it showed you, like-
12:44
Yeah.
12:44
'Cause if, if you don't board that right and if the music isn't right, you're like, "Ah, they're not really going home." But if you play it to the cr- to the audience like this is really happening, they'll believe it and get scared for the kids.
5:11
And make Mabel look kinda cute.
5:11
Okay, so, um, we should just say, I mean, the Summer Ween monster, I don't know how you guys feel.
5:15
It's, like, one of my favorite Gravity Falls creatures.
5:18
He's awesome.

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17:07
She doesn't want to at all.
17:08
I love how this scene is handled.
17:10
I love their heads are a little bit compressed, and, like, it's tight, and it's well boarded, and very emotional.
12:45
[laughs]
12:45
... that was really, really funny.
12:47
And, like, I love how they talk over one another.
12:50
I think there's a, there's a point in the episode where someone says, "Counterpoint," which is, like, one of my favorite-
17:12
Oh, how pathetic they're fighting?
17:14
Yeah, like, the, the, the arm burns and the kind of, like, wet willy, like, where they're, like, hitting the tummy and stuff.
17:20
Like, oh, there's the sucker punch.
17:22
Clone fight.

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