Here is an entire book of invention gags from the Flinstones. Thanks to Fred Seibert.
The Flintstones’ Wacky Inventions: Turner Publishing/Bedrock Press 1993
Month: September 2012
Curiosity Killed the Cat
This short film is three shots long, and I was laughing by the second shot. Not much actual animation, but a great lesson in setting up a scene.
Curiosity Killed The Cat from Trunk Animation on Vimeo.
Norman Wisdom, Chaplin’s favorite clown
Norman Wisdom, star of British film comedy, died just last year, at 95 years old. The news releases all mentioned how Charlie Chaplin called him his favorite clown.
Here is a little introduction.
And here is the full length piece.
More Behind the Scenes of Ted.
Webster Colcord, the on set pre-viz supervisor for “Ted”, pointed me to some comparison video of Seth MacFarlane’s mocap acting, the rough application, and the final result. I did the section from :30 to 1:14.
Here is a LINK to my earlier, longer post about Ted.
A little pixilation
If you type “pixilation” into google, it will sometimes automatically change it to “pixelation.” The former is the animation technique of moving human bodies around with a stop motion camera effect. The latter is the what news programs do to cover the naughty bits in a nude photo. Quite a few videos on the internet use the wrong spelling.
I recall a Porky Pig / Daffy Duck cartoon where Porky says to the duck, “Aw, you’re p-p-p-pixilated!”
Here is a fun example from Spike Milligan. Thanks to a tweet from Chris Michael.
Wikipedia has links to quite a few other examples.