Nesquik contest entry (my UPA style toon)

jhbmw007 · Post by **jhbmw007** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:05 pm

Well, I was trying for a UPA style cartoon but I'm not sure what the animation will end up looking like. Can I finish this animation by Friday? Stay tuned to find out! lol

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:54 pm

The character looks good so far... but forgive me if I'm outdated but what is UPA style cartoon?...
Ah! I found it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Pro ... of_America

Interesting story...
-G

PS: I like your style jhbmw007!!

jhbmw007 · Post by **jhbmw007** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:22 pm

I think they also call it "cartoon modern" but it's a form of limited animation- I thought it might suit well for AS.

Pics of the background and other character:

AmigaMan · Post by **AmigaMan** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:36 pm

Certainly looks like a UPA cartoon. Great style. One of my favourite 'animations' (not much animation in it to be honest) is UPA's film of Poe's 'The Tell Tale Heart'. Gerald McBoing Boing is great too.

Look forward to seeing your animation.

FCSnow · Post by **FCSnow** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:34 am

Does anyone remember that UPA feature cartoon Aladin's Lamp where Mr. McGoo was the uncle of Aladin? It would have been released over fourty years ago. (Suddenly I feel old.)

jhbmw007 · Post by **jhbmw007** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:43 pm

Here's the completed animation- I finished a day early!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pIFD6udDzFM

Can you spot the hidden Nestle Bunny cameo appearance?

KenW · Post by **KenW** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:40 pm

very entertaining, and yes i spotted the bunny!

jhbmw007 · Post by **jhbmw007** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:04 pm

Hehe, but would you have if I hadn't mentioned it?? Glad you liked!

BonAp · Post by **BonAp** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 8:10 pm

Although I find commercials to be a pain in the behind, I Liked it.
-I even rated it. (But I can't find any bunnys)

BonAp

Arkaos · Post by **Arkaos** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:05 pm

Pretty cool animation

I liked the silhouette on the kid tumbling down the stairs. Very creative. Good camera shots, too.

jhbmw007 · Post by **jhbmw007** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:19 pm

BonAp - You really got to look hard for the bunny- he's a sneaky little bastard! And I don't like ads either- but I figure doing these contests is a good way to build my portfolio plus have a shot at winning a couple. hopefully I will win this contest and then I can afford to fund my own project!

Arkaos - Thanks. Although it was more laziness than creativity- I started animating him down a couple stairs moving all his limbs manually and realized it was going to take forever. So I duplicated the layer, added bone dynamics and a mask and let AS do the work for me!

What's unfortunate is that the whole cartoon has a really cool gritty look to the backgrounds but you can't see it on youtube due to the compression.

BonAp · Post by **BonAp** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:48 pm

Ahh!!! - After viewing it five times, i finnaly found the bunny

Gave 5 stars. - Twice!

BonAp

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:49 pm

Super good stuff...
-But where the hell is the vote button?
-G

jhbmw007 · Post by **jhbmw007** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:06 am

Voting hasn't started yet- actually I don't even know if I'm going to make it as a finalist. I just asked people to vote at the end of the video just in case, and I'll update the description with a link to the vote page.

jhbmw007 · Post by **jhbmw007** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:30 pm

Well- the 10 finalists still haven't been announced- but there is a vote button now. So, if you have the time, please vote thumbs up for my vid! (requires youtube login)-
http://www.youtube.com/contest/nesquik? ... from=watch