tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post435404680114856444..comments2024-03-27T21:43:02.451-04:00Comments on NEW SAVANNA: Where’d the Animals Go?Bill Benzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-77029104290184433322012-09-30T12:09:34.428-04:002012-09-30T12:09:34.428-04:00The interesting thing, Frank, is that a lot of the...The interesting thing, Frank, is that a lot of these adult cartoons place a very heavy emphasis on dialog, so much so that they'd almost, but not quite, function as radio dramas. Compare this with the Roadrunner cartoons. There's no dialog at all. Every once in awhile Roadrunner will give us a "meep meep." Otherwise the soundtrack consists of music and special effects other thanBill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-90386937004102758192012-09-30T06:28:12.386-04:002012-09-30T06:28:12.386-04:00Too hard to do humans--I CAN believe it, sorta. Is...Too hard to do humans--I CAN believe it, sorta. Isn't that why Disney went to rotoscoping for Snow White? When did Disney animators start looking at animals? I know they brought a deer to the studio for Bambi.<br /><br />But then, half way around the world, in the 60s, you have the emergence of anime in Japan. Now Astro Boy (one of the earliest series) wasn't a human, he was an Bill Benzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08360044945265178991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-28509536236493231802012-09-30T04:18:48.231-04:002012-09-30T04:18:48.231-04:00"Paul Wells (The Animated Bestiary) note that..."Paul Wells (The Animated Bestiary) note that animators have to study live animals and their movement in order to make convincing cartoon animals."<br /><br />I kind of doubt anyone studied the movement of mice to draw Mickey or dogs to draw Huckleberry Hound. Back in the sixties, striving young animators were told that no one drew humans because it was easier to draw animals. Human Michael Spornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02018522723674960270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6535481649727720492.post-4779481158953344752012-09-29T20:31:13.720-04:002012-09-29T20:31:13.720-04:00Interesting, Bill. I wonder if the rise of the &q...Interesting, Bill. I wonder if the rise of the "sophisticated" human character cartoons that appeal to adult tastes, e.g., The Simpsons and other cartoon series on TV, is responsible for removing animals. My son Jason is very familiar with a bunch of them. One of them has a talking dog in it! Unfortunately, I'm such a serious person that my one hour of daily TV consists of Frank Munleyhttp://munley.weebly.comnoreply@blogger.com