Wednesday, September 30, 2009

imagination

Here's the weirdest scene cut I've seen.





Before the cut Clampett anticipates that something weird is going to happen by having the bonds bag throb and shrink into infinity


Then the hammock rolls up.





The walls begin to quiver





and then morph into a completely different scene, but Hook is still ther





The WAY it morphs is really controlled and fun too - it isn't just inbetweened from one background to another as in many independent stoner animated films you see in animation festivals.
























and then Hook's take when he discovers he is in a different place is amazing



















The 40s was a great time for experimentation and especially in the Clampett unit. Clampett would come up with crazy ideas out of nowhere and just try them - but them execute them so skillfully that they cause a really arresting visual effect that adds to the entertainment.
http://www.cartoonthrills.org/blog/Clampett/45/Hook/ScribnerHook2.movThis scene leads to another series of genius cuts and accents that show just what a director can do in animation if he has skill, boldness and imagination. Almost any other director would have been just too cautious and conservative to take things to this level of imagination in so short a sequence. I'll post that later






















Saturday, September 26, 2009

squiggling jhonny bravo

This is really fast to animate because I'm using flat out 'dead holds' on the controls and letting the squiggly part keep the scene alive. I hit a pose and that's it. I hold it.No 'moving holds' or overdone overlapping business.this 30 sec video may be took 1 week 3hrs a day,this when i was just learning what is animation,and am crazy about johnny bravo,squiggle,snappy kinda animation,ie..i likemore classical (WB)kinda animation.and one thing this i animated when i knew very less about KEITH LANGO,ahhhh...am totally fascinated about his way of animation,

It's rough as heck, but it totally works. In fact, it more than works. It thrives on a level that is completely different than if it were tied down tight, tightly polished and had the holds all animated in like a typical 2d johnny bravo film. The rough look has a kind of vibrancy to it that actually adds to the film. I don't have a fancy explanation for how it works- I just know it does.
anyways i wanted to see Johnny in 3d cause i made it,i hope in more better way it should have been made,but tats all i can in those days