Animaticizing

I don’t have a lot of cartoon stuff to post still. I have been working hard on the Alabama in Space storyboards/animatic, but don’t have a lot of “post-able” images. I am kind of going overboard on the animatic. This is because I know the final cartoon won’t have a ton of animation. Making animated cartoons, in your spare time, by yourself does not really allow for a lot of animation; that is if you want to have any kind of life, or don’t want your wife to leave you. Also, I would rather make a few quick cartoons per year than some magnum opus of animation. I probably only get an hour-or-so per day to work on these silly cartoons, if I am lucky. If I am going to accomplish I have to cut some corners.

Since the cartoons won’t have awesome animation, I am concentrating on layouts and beats in the animatic. I am doing boards really rough, and trying to apply a lot of thought to the layout. I am using the Spumco layout notes and Brad Bird’s King of the Hill notes a lot. I have also been looking at Will Eisner’s books on comics, and have been looking at a lot of comic cover art to get really over the top dynamic layouts. This cartoon’s concept is so silly that I think it makes it even funnier to put this much thought into such a stupid concept. Considering the subject manner making dynamic layouts is pretty ludicrous.

Since I have no images, here are some photos:

Here’s me in the boxing class that I did the caricatures of the teacher for:

This photo was taken by the very talented Ms. Licarone:

Here are some pics of a trip I made with Mandy to a petting zoo recently in Johnson City.