Showing posts with label acting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acting. Show all posts

Thursday, May 19, 2011

For Eddie: Dabbing

This is some really important shit. Stop drawing and study animation mimes instead.You'll want your cartoon characters to act like this if you want true believability.Ask Eddie what it all means.Clips:MEET MYSTERY ANIMATION ACTING MAN, ED HOOKSTHE MIMESIMPROVE YOUR CARTOON ACTING WITH "DABBING"

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

More Wilderness Adventure Layouts

The reason to do layouts here (in America or your homeland) is so you can create custom acting.By "custom" I mean creating original poses and expressions that only fit the particular scene and story you are working on.If you are just gonna use stock prefab model sheet poses and expressions, then there really is no reason to do layouts in the country. You might as well just send the script

Monday, April 11, 2011

Storyboard To Layout

Here are a handful of storyboard panels from "Wilderness Adventure", one of the firs Ren and Stimpy stories written. The cartoon was rejected 3 times in a row by hippie ladies who hate Republican men.people ask me sometimes what the difference is between storyboards and layouts. These few storyboard panels turned into 34 layout poses.Here are the first few.Layouts are where I tighten up the poses

Thursday, December 30, 2010

The Racket - Great Story, Dialogue, Acting, Direction

Here is a clip from one of my favorite movies, directed by John Cromwell and Nicholas Ray. "The Racket" along with other Robert Ryan movies was the inspiration for my web series "Weekend Pussy Hunt".This movie works on almost every level. It has a good story, great dialogue, brilliant direction and what I look for most of all in movies- wonderful interaction between rich personalities portrayed