Keith Baxter & Greg Sims Talk Tom & Jerry in New York, Burt Ward & more!
Jimmy Leszczynski
Retro Cool Nerd recently had the opportunity to speak with the talented duo behind the musical arrangement for the newly released HBO Max animated series Tom and Jerry in New York.
Keith Baxter, director, songwriter, story artist, and virtuoso guitarist, and Greg Sims, composer, arranger, orchestrator, songwriter, and producer of music for film and television, discuss working together to deliver an arrangement for this recently released series. The creative team created a unique process to develop the music and story together. Unlike typical animation production in which various departments work separately, Keith and Greg work closely to solve the challenge of integrating songs with animation. We also talk about Batman, Burt Ward and one of the teams projects that didn’t see the light of day -The Cheese Monger!
Keith’s previous credits include other animated projects like Toonsylvania, Hotel Transylvania 2 and 3, Despicable Me, The Croods, Flushed Away, and The Looney Tunes Show. Greg has previously scored two documentaries 40 Years of Rocky: The Birth of a Classic and Stallone: Frank, That Is, both won Best Documentary awards at Beverly Hills Film Festival 2020.