Musical Opening

1 Slides spatula under pancake2 toss up
3 spin
4 drop

repeatTempo speeds up, as dog follows actions, accents are stronger
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contrast fun music to death march

Illegal cut

http://www.cartoonthrills.org/blog/Clampett/41/porkysPooch/PorkyPoochPancakes.mov

Cute Girl and Ren Running, Bob animation 12x beat

This girl character is based on Tex' Avery's Lonesome Lenny, which in turn is taken from Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men". It's such a funny concept it's hard to resist it. -Someone who loves his little pets so much, he squeezes them to death. "I'm gonna love you and squeeze you and kiss you..."

I tried to get a little pathos here with shadows of the bars and Stimpy pulling his rubbery gloves along the bars in heartbreaking agony.

I asked Bob to make the girl be light in this run and to have more drawings of her off the ground than on the ground in this run. There are 12 x per step. 7 of them, her feet are off the ground.

There are 5 where she has at least one foot in contact with the ground.




This is drawing 7 and drawing 11. There are 3 more inbetweens very closely spaced between them to make you feel this part of her run, where she is floating in the air. Bob used "tight inbetweens" a lot to great effect.

He also added lots of overlap to smooth out the run. Ren's bouncing overlaps the girl's up and down motion, and then Ren's hair overlaps his.
http://www.cartoonthrills.org/blog/spumco/RenStimpy/1BHB/BobImAlive.mov

That "I'm alive, I'm alive" bit is inspired by "Stranger On The 3rd Floor" - a great movie.

Erotic Cycles

Betty knows just how much Bimbo is turned on by cycles.
This is what I would consider not conservative animation. Grim isn't holding anything back. He's just doing what he thinks is naturally funny. He's not checking his rule book first.
You'd have a million people saying no to this kind of thing today - or even in the 50s.
Not just because it's dirty - but because it's too cartoony. It "doesn't make sense".
This arm wave is funny as hell, you better say no to it, quick!
And of course the rubber butt slap is the topper of it all.
The Fleischers had their own sort of "limited animation " techniques. They would animate a lot of cycles or bits of animation and repeat them a couple times. This could essentially cut their budgets in half. This is different than say, HB's limited animation of the late 50s - where they were trying to hide the animation. The Fleischers made the cycles themselves funny and worth looking at more than once.''


By the 50s animation was still professional, but outside of some commercials, was pretty conservative. "We don't do that sort of thing anymore".
I love this early purity.
To me, this is the essential part of animation- moving things funny.
Now you have to fight like Hell to get anyone to allow you to do what simply comes naturally to the medium.
Look what this is doing for Bimbo!
Don't you wish your gal/dog? would do some erotic cycles for you?



http://www.cartoonthrills.org/blog/BettyBoop/mysteriousmose/bettydance1slapbuttsml.mov

Pedro Completes Bosko's Bounces

http://pipsqueakscorner.blogspot.com/2007/08/more-boskoness.html


Pedro finished all 3 of Bosko's dances and they are quite good.

My only criticism Pedro, is that they are a bit too stiff or mathematical.

For example, In the first one, you traced-back his front-view head as it tilts side to side. It looks like a moving cut-out. In the original, his head is slightly different as it moves. Keep it organic!

If anyone else has done the animation, put a link in the comments and I'll check 'em out.

Here's the original post:

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/08/animation-course-1-lesson-1-beat-kali.html

I am gonna put another good test up today, Oswald's dance which will also help you understand animating to beats.