FlippinDingDong
Alas, the best laid plans of mice and men (and other barnyard animals) often go astray.
updated 12 years ago
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Created as my Senior Film at the College for Creative Studies.
Created over two semesters (30 weeks) from concept to finish.
One of 13 films featured at the 2016 CCS Student Exhibition Opening.
"Trailer Annie" (1943) used with permission.
Written by Spike Jones.
Performed by Spike Jones and his City Slickers
ASCAP LP - 20-18342
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For those of you who don't know, I've been enrolled at an art institute pursuing a degree in 3D Animation. This is partly why the flow of cartoons on this channel has basically come to a stop.
This is a quick animation I made to test my abilities in Autodesk Maya (the 3D program that I'm learning about in college).
There are two keywords there: quick & test. Don't be expecting the next Ratatouille or something out of this. Its just a bunch of Army Men shooting the crap out of each other because I wanted them to.
(plus, I always wondered what "Sarge's Heroes" would've looked like in first person.)
HOWEVER, due to time constraints, I had to wrap up this project a little earlier than I would've liked to so that it had adequate time to render it out. As a result, I still kinda consider it a work-in-progress. While there are a few obvious problems (I have no idea what's up with that dude's wrist), most of them are fairly minor, such as stiff animation, missing effects (bullet impacts etc.), and an overall fuzzy/pixelated image (I had to crank the quality way down in order for it to render in time).
Overall, this entire thing took about a month and a half to create, and 11 days (!) to render out.
As I move back to school in two days, I'm hoping to churn out a few more 2D cartoons in the future as well.
Why, through a catchy musical number, of course!
...unless that man is Captain Price, who'll just beat the crap out of you.
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Originally clocking in at about 10 minutes, I ultimately decided to cut the video length down to what you see here. This segment originally took place in the middle of the cartoon, but at the moment this is all that I'm going to make of it.
So turn off the lights, grab a bag of Milky Ways and enjoy the show.
And if you ask for a name of a song without checking the credits first, The Suitor will be waiting for you in the basement tonight.
In this montage, you'll see:
- Cartoons you've already seen
- Cartoons that I'm currently working on
- and cartoons that I ended up scrapping
And of course, the music is none other than the 'surprisingly-fits-well-with-everything' "Hungarian Rhapsody no.2 in C-Sharp Minor" by Franz Liszt.
(P.S. and before anyone says anything, yes, I did mention that the Mario & Luigi scene was rotoscoped from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit")
(NOTE - DUE TO A COPYRIGHT CLAIM ON THIS PARTICULAR PERFORMANCE OF "HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY NO.2", THIS VIDEO MAY BE REMOVED IN THE FUTURE)
And that was what made this series so great.
I was sorely disappointed (raging bonkers, actually) when Crytek announced that they had basically scrapped the fourth installment.
The jerks.
Why all the short, random videos lately, you ask?
I am actually working on two major cartoons, but they are taking way more time (and effort) to complete than I had expected. So when I get bored out of my mind working on those, I take a break by making these shorter, less thought-intensive cartoons instead. (In other words, I never get a chance to relax).
Without giving too much away, one (which pays homage to a classical Disney series) revolves around an infamous-yet-not well known PC horror game.
The other pays tribute to one of our favorite video game series which finally had the plug pulled on it about a week ago.
I have no idea when I'll finally get either of them done, though.
Let's face it; if you've played ANY "Battlefield" game online, chances are this has happened to you at least once.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to complete the whole video before New Year's (darn my procrastination). Perhaps next year.
Anyhoo, hope you all have a happy New Year, and here's to 2012!
Share your own Pokémon philosophical ramblings in the comments section, if you so please.
Hey, you need to get 'em out somewhere, might as well be here, right?
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(And p.s., some of these might actually have answers to them. I didn't necessarily scour every single Pokémon episode to make sure. Don't take it too seriously)
Am I the only one that was thoroughly annoyed by that stupid Pokémon throughout the whole TV series?
At least, it seemed like a good idea.
Freedom?
Democracy?
Apple pie?
Well good for you, this is what I think of.
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MUSIC - "Astro Boy Theme Song" (1960)
But things are different this time around, and he's gonna need all the help he can get from his pals to make it out of this one alive!
Even cloud riding.
Especially if its your girlfriend's surprise birthday party.
It has the huge spaceship, the alien fighters, the giant turquoise death ray, and the vital groundbase that is about to be nuked by aforementioned death ray.
The only thing missing was Randy Quaid's awesome kamikaze attack.
No, not that, you sick weasels.