Here is my most recent video:
I’m not sure what why I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about badly animated Saturday morning cartoons from my childhood. Regardless, the above video is the result of my bout of insomnia.
To make the animation cheaper, the animators limited the movement and what movement existed was generally repetitive. I tried to convey this to my “actors”, but they ended up more expressive than I envisioned. No big deal. When you are entertaining your kids on a day off from school in a pandemic, you should always just go with the flow.
I looked up a couple of examples of crappy, old cartoons…
You have to love this clip from Star Trek. Captain Kirk threatens to pour acid on a poor tentacled alien named Winston masquerading as an examining table. That’s just horrifying - an alien named Winston!
The style of animiation in this Clutch Cargo clip totally horrified me as a kid. Rather than deal with the painfully tedious act of animating the characters’ mouths as they talked, they used real mouths.
The result must push me over into some form of uncanny valley of animation.