A whole cartoon based around Dramatic Irony

Mr Magoo was the first thing I thought of when we got into Dramatic Irony... just using the concept of an old man with some kind of degenerative retinal disease and laugh at him when he thinks a lamp cord is a piece of spaghetti. Of course our Dramatic Irony has to be less comical.....

grrrrrr

It's getting late so I'm posting this in "fast motion" I had the timing nice and slow using the time stretch feature in after effects... but it doesn't render at that same speed. So just scrub through this to get the idea...

So I added some ears and frames.

"I hate mondays..... I guess I'm like that fat cat that likes lasagna"

"Come to think of it... I hate cats and I hate lasagna"

"It's not like cats or lasagna have ever done anything to me... it's just I really hate that comic strip!"

"Jim Davis raped my mother"

"Hey there's a box over there... let's take a look"

".... it smells like lasagna...."

"a.... a.... cat caught in a mousetrap... baited with lasagna?!"

heh.... heheheeh..... HAHAHAHAHAHAH

AAAAAAACHO.

"oh yeah... and I'm allergic to cats and lasagna"

It could just be a very persistent knife salesman...

How come when Tom and Jerry do this it's considered cute?

Wataaaa! almost....

still trying to work with a somewhat small scanner and somewhat large drawings...

Anatomy of a laugh

This is going to be hard to animate... but at the same time I think it's going to be extremely fun to animate... if that makes sense.

Multi Tasker I am not...

So missing segments, 2 more warrior pics, and I didn't save half of the box pictures I just scanned... don't run the TV, talk on the phone, IM, and scan at the same time... corrections coming but want to have something up on time. ;)

maximizing the frame

Now here's a photographer that seems to know something about composition.... although he seems kind of pre-occupied with female models...




... okay you got me... it's me.... I knew I should have just posted some of Kaveh's photos.... and no... I have no clue where that blood and feathers came from in the back stairwell of the art building.

and for this shot we burried the camera in a 20 ft wide ditch....

a man... his truck... and a pole.

could the box be some kind of metaphor?

So this is Richard... but you could call him Dick... and yes he's intentionally phallic looking, because hey this guy is a real dick. He was born without a sense of humor and he's got teeth like the Grinch... but whatever he sees in the box makes him laugh for the first time in his life.

beauty and the beast

and my foot only fell asleep 3 times

now 20% more jerkier

Timing, timing, timing... and a little bit more of an anticipation and reaction to the throw. The only down side is I shot with an external flash that gave a little bit of a flicker and no remote so the camera did move a little, causing an unwanted shaking... I plan on shooting the final final version of this on the pencil test machine.

Oh NOH he didn't

Whore and monk, we sleep
under one roof together,
moon in a field of clover

~Basho

An old dog and new tricks

Still too floaty to deserve a begging strip or anything (because you know dogs can't tell they're not bacon) but I think a pretty good stride in character design and making something less Mickey.

Minus the bells and whistles

In both the page and the animation... hey if you start off perfect there's no room for improvement. ;)