"No Chris Left Behind" (Peter vs. Giant Chicken fight sequence)
ACTION, COMEDY
The ultra-violent Chicken Fight saga has been a running gag on Family Guy for 25 years. It was my honor to storyboard two of the brawl's early installments: fight #2 in "Blind Ambition" (season four) and fight #3 here (season five). FOX submitted both storyboards for award consideration. This one won, twice!
2007 Primetime Emmy Award - Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation (Storyboard Artist)
2007 Annie Award - Outstanding Individual Achievement for Storyboarding in an Animated Television Production
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Original Rough Thumbnail
Clean Storyboard
Final Aired Episode
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Peter vs. Giant Chicken Script Pages
Chicken Fight sequences are such massive undertakings that when one shows up in a script every couple of seasons, it's treated as a separate episode-within-an-episode by production. Storyboarding these elaborate set-pieces requires a strong sense of comedic agency and an ability to elevate violence.
