History Creator / GenndyTartakovsky

* SilenceIsGolden: Most notably in ''Samurai Jack.'' Not as much, but still prominent in ''Star Wars: Clone Wars'' and ''Sym-Bionic Titan.'' He experiments with this a bit in ''Dexter's Laboratory.'' The upcoming ''Primal'' will be his first show told without ''any'' dialogue whatsoever (due to taking place in a prehistoric wilderness [[JustifiedTrope before the development of human language.]]

* SlidingScaleOfSeriousnessVersusSilliness: Goes both ways. Tartakovsky's work is either broadly comedic with some intense action scenes or dramatic action with a lot of comic relief. In general, he seems to prefer an equal balance of both. His only work for fall on one side or the other is ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'', which is largely dramatic with virtually no comic relief.

* TomHanksSyndrome: Compare the comedic ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' to the more serious ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' or ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan.''

* BloodierAndGorier: Moving to Creator/AdultSwim and targeting a [[GrowingWithTheAudience more mature audience]] allowed the revival of ''Samurai Jack'' to actually show the title character (and others) killing humans for the first time, and spilling blood that's [[AlienBlood actually]] [[SymbolicBlood red]]. His latest project ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'' is [[UpToEleven even more gruesome]], with [[RatedMForManly musclebound cavemen, dinosaurs, and prehistoric animals ripping each other to shreds left and right.]]

* BloodierAndGorier: Moving to Creator/AdultSwim and targeting a [[GrowingWithTheAudience more mature audience]] allowed the revival of ''Samurai Jack'' to actually show the title character (and others) killing humans for the first time, and spilling blood that's [[AlienBlood actually]] [[SymbolicBlood red]]. Footage from his upcoming ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'' shows it to be [[UpToEleven even more gruesome]], with [[RatedMForManly musclebound cavemen, dinosaurs, and prehistoric animals ripping each other to shreds left and right.]]

** Though: his first project after ''Titan'' was his [[LighterAndSofter broadly]] [[DenserAndWackier comic]] feature-debut, ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania.''

* CerebusSyndrome: Compare the comedic ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' to the more serious ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' or ''WesternAnimation/SymBionicTitan.''
** LighterAndSofter: And his first project after ''Titan'' was his broadly comic feature-debut, ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania.''

2019 has seen Tartakovsky at his most prolific thus far, with two films in development at Sony, the adult comedy ''Fixed'' and the adventure film ''Black Knight'', and a new series for Adult Swim entitled ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019''.

* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The deliberately cinematic pacing of Tartakovsky's action cartoons (''Samurai Jack'', ''Star Wars: Clone Wars'') is one of their most strikingly distinct qualities. In contrast to the [[RapidFireComedy gag-a-minute]], [[LullDestruction silence-is-the-enemy]] style of most Western cartoons, Tartakovsky's work contains many scenes of the characters just...''waiting'' for things to happen, whether it's a dramatic staredown between two foes or a character traveling through an otherwise empty landscape. As a result, he's ''really'' good at [[TropesAreNotBad keeping viewers in suspense while]] they wait for the tension to finally snap.

* WidgetSeries: But as ''Sym-Bionic Titan'' proved, this [[TropesAreTools has never looked so cool.]]

* SlidingScaleOfSeriousnessVersusSilliness: Goes both ways. Tartakovsky's work is either broadly comedic with some intense action scenes or dramatic action with a lot of comic relief. In general, he seems to prefer an equal balance of both. His only work for fall on one side or the other is ''WesternAnimation/Prima2019'', which is largely dramatic with virtually no comic relief.

* SlidingScaleOfSeriousnessVersusSilliness: Goes both ways. Tartakovsky's work is either broadly comedic with some intense action scenes or dramatic action with a lot of comic relief. In general, he seems to prefer an equal balance of both.

2019 has seen Tartakovsky at his most prolific thus far, with two films in development at Sony, the adult comedy ''Fixed'' and the adventure film ''Black Knight'', and a new series for Adult Swim entitled ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal}}''.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal}}''

* BloodierAndGorier: Moving to Creator/AdultSwim and targeting a [[GrowingWithTheAudience more mature audience]] allowed the revival of ''Samurai Jack'' to actually show the title character (and others) killing humans for the first time, and spilling blood that's [[AlienBlood actually]] [[SymbolicBlood red]]. Footage from his upcoming ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal}}'' shows it to be [[UpToEleven even more gruesome]], with [[RatedMForManly musclebound cavemen, dinosaurs, and prehistoric animals ripping each other to shreds left and right.]]

* RatedMForManly: His action scenes almost invariably involve [[RuleOfCool a bulletpoint list of everything that's cool]], like [[HumongousMecha giant robots]] and titans brawling with one another or lone, frequently musclebound warriors [[OneManArmy slaughtering entire armies of foes or giant monsters all by themselves.]]

* SilenceIsGolden: Most notably in ''Samurai Jack.'' Not as much, but still prominent in ''Star Wars: Clone Wars'' and ''Sym-Bionic Titan.'' He experiments with this a bit in ''Dexter's Laboratory.'' The upcoming ''Primal'' will be his first show told without ''any'' dialogue whatsoever (

* BloodierAndGorier: Moving to Creator/AdultSwim and targeting a [[GrowingWithTheAudience more mature audience]] allowed the revival of ''Samurai Jack'' to actually show the title character (and others) killing humans for the first time, and spilling blood that's [[AlienBlood actually]] [[SymbolicBlood red]]. Footage from his upcoming ''Primal'' shows it to be [[UpToEleven even more gruesome]], with [[RatedMForManly musclebound cavemen, dinosaurs, and prehistoric animals ripping each other to shreds left and right.]]

* BloodierAndGorier: Moving to Creator/AdultSwim and targeting a [[GrowingWithTheAudience more mature audience]] allowed the revival of ''Samurai Jack'' to actually show the title character (and others) killing humans for the first time, and spilling blood that's [[AlienBlood actually]] [[SymbolicBlood red]]. The upcoming ''Primal'' appears to be [[UpToEleven even more gruesome]], with [[RatedMForManly musclebound cavemen, dinosaurs, and prehistoric animals ripping each other to shreds left and right.]]

* PlayingAgainstType: Tartakovsky returned ''Samurai Jack'' to television with a 10-episode fifth season, which is more adult-oriented than the last four, although there isn't that much subject matter. He cranks it UpToEleven with ''Fixed''.

In 2016, Genndy ''[[SavedFromDevelopmentHell finally]]'' got the chance to give ''Samurai Jack'' a proper conclusion when Creator/AdultSwim's Creator/{{Toonami}} block agreed to produce a mini-series, with him back in the director's chair, which would wrap up the story for good. The same year, he created ''Cage'', a 4-issue Creator/MarvelComics miniseries starring [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]], which throws-back to the character's blaxploitation roots.

2019 saw Tartakovsky at his most prolific, with two films in development at Sony, the adult comedy ''Fixed'' and the adventure film ''Black Knight'', and a new series for Adult Swim entitled ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal}}''.

* SignatureStyle: Tartakovsky's art style is extremely distinctive, with characters composed of sharp, angular silhouettes and thick, blocky shapes.

** ''Samurai Jack'' managed to get away with excessive violence by making [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman all of Jack's victims monsters or robots]] before Creator/AdultSwim allowed him to kill other humans.

* LockAndLoadMontage: apparently a big fan of these; they can be found quite frequently in all of his cartoons.

* SilenceIsGolden: Most notably in ''Samurai Jack.'' Not as much, but still prominent in ''Star Wars: Clone Wars'' and ''Sym-Bionic Titan.'' He experiments with this a bit in ''Dexter's Laboratory.''

2019 saw Tartakovsky at his most prolific, with two films in development at Sony, the adult comedy ''Fixed'' and the adventure film ''Black Knight'', and a new series for Adult Swim entitled ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal}}''. He's is also currently a director on the TV series spin-off of ''WesternAnimation/WonderPark.''

2019 saw Tartakovsky at his most prolific, with two films in development at Sony, the adult comedy ''Fixed'' and the adventure film ''Black Knight'', and a new series for Adult Swim entitled ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal}}''.

2019 saw Tartakovsky at his most prolific, with two films in development at Sony, the adult comedy ''Fixed'' and the adventure film ''Black Knight'', and a new series for Adult Swim entitled ''Primal''.

Tartakovsky is working on two films in development for SPA; [[https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/genndy-tartakovsky-to-direct-an-r-rated-comedy-at-sony-pictures-animation-162296.html one that is aimed for adults and the other an adventure film.]] In 2019, Adult Swim commissioned a new half-hour series from Tartakovsky entitled ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal}}'', set to air later that year.

Tartakovsky is working on two films in development for SPA; [[https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/genndy-tartakovsky-to-direct-an-r-rated-comedy-at-sony-pictures-animation-162296.html one that is aimed for adults and the other an adventure film.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' (provided a guest voice for the Samurai Jack parody called "Samurai Quack)

* Storyboarding on ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs''

Genndy would attend the California Institute of the Arts a.k.a. "[=CalArts=]" (because he was too late to apply for a business school). There he embraced his future career as an animator and made his first two shorts. His senior thesis film, ''Changes, was later remade at the pilot for Creator/CartoonNetwork's first original show, ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory.'' While schooling, he formed a strong friendship with Creator/CraigMcCracken and Rob Renzetti (''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot''), which often shows in their cooperation between series.

Genndy would attend the California Institute of the Arts a.k.a. "[=CalArts=]" (because he was too late to apply for a business school). There he embraced his future career as an animator and made his first two shorts, one of which eventually became ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory.'' While schooling, he formed a strong friendship with Creator/CraigMcCracken and Rob Renzetti (''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot''), which often shows in their cooperation between series.

* HartmanHips: As both the trope namer and the actual artist responsible (Creator/ButchHartman and Creator/StevenSilver, respectively) used to work for him, it's no surprise that his cartoons are [[http://forgottenanimation.tumblr.com/post/159426013747/atomictikisnaughtybits-ck-blogs-stuff full of some very shapely women]].