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Pen Parody in: Pen's Paranomia (2021)

 Since my posts are very rare at this days I decided to post some animation materijala grom my friend Pen Parody. Check out his blog where you can see one of his storyboards. 

Halloween is coming soon and Pen Parody give me storyboard for his 5 minute long special. This special took him 30 days wich is an intresting fact. 

Enjoy this week blog and see y'all very soon.

Storyboard: page 1-30 (5 pages missing)

 

Backrounds 

Layouts 

(Special thanks to Pen Parody for original material) 

Donald Duck in: „Timber“ (1941)

Today on this blog  I'm gonna do animation breakdown on one of classic Donald Duck cartoons. 

After I listen to the Thad Komorowski's podcast about this short I decided to do it myself version. If you want to hear that podcast click  here. 

At this short Jack King directed it, story was written by Carl Barks and Jack Hannah (Hannah did the ones that look a little more refined, while Barks did the looser, cartoonier drawings. Absolutely inspirational!) and voice actors are classic Clarence Nash and Billy Bletcher.

Mostly Ed Love animated at this short and it was pretty smooth and good. Some scenes Donald's eyes remind me of animator Bob Mckimson. 

Pete was a better character when paired with Donald, especially as an authority figure. Ed Love and Emery Hawkins definitely show their comic potential in this short.

 It's interesting to see how the animators were cast. In this case, most were given short sequences. Some got only one (e.g. Dick Lundy, Hal King), some got more than one (e.g. Paul Allen, Jim Armstrong), some got one plus a couple of extra shots (e.g. Judge Whitaker) - Ed Love beat them all with three sequences and two extra reaction shots, adding up to about 2 minutes of footage. Ted Bonnicksen just got three very short clips, one with no character animation, adding up to a few seconds of footage. I can detect Ed Love's signature style most clearly in the scene where Pete says "Not so fast, my leetle one" before making the new axe handle. The pose is very similar to scenes Ed Love animated of Donald in "The Whalers", Goofy in "Lonesome Ghosts" and "Mickey's Trailer", and others. Ray Patterson and Ray Patin sadly only got one scene at this short and that was couple of seconds. To me this short had me laugh and extreme animation (mostly Ed Love).The mine cart chase is wonderfully executed.

Click  here to  see this week's breakdown. (If there's any problem with video just share me acess)

(Special thanks to Thad Komorowski and David Gerstein for providing the draft and information)

 

Paul Terry's „Scotch Highball“ (1930)

 So, I'm these days looking up for some animation drafts/Lead Sheets that they're not part of animated movie (like Alice In Wonderland) or not posted by Devon Baxter. Id anyone of animation historians have animation drafts comment on this blog. Today We're on the early east coast animation with Terrytoons draft.

People who animated on this short are: Art Babbit, Paul Terry, Jerry Shields, Frank Moser, Charles Sarka and Ferd Hovarth. Paul Terry was at the same time animator and director and soon he became producer of Terrytoons. Art Babbit was animator at Terrytoons until 1932 he removed to Walt Disney. Jerry Shields was an animator since beggining at Terrytoons until 1939 he commited suicide. Frank Moser was an animator and co-director until 1936 when biusness deal gone wrong. After that he was running an art club until his death.

Jerry Beck noted that each Terrytoons short (including this one)  took three weeks to animate, and was released ten weeks later.  We can infer that this cartoon was  animated between August 22 and September 5, 1930.

Enjoy this week breakdown:

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Check out Here for animation breakdown about this Terrytoons short.(Some of the scenes on draft are not included like scene 12a)

If you want more rare animation drafts check out Devon Baxter who now posted draft for Mickey's Circus.

(Special thanks to Jerry Beck for animation draft and information.)