If you ever have any questions, just let me know.

I’ll look forward to your return.

K

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Glad to hear you took a fun vacation…hmm…but I thought you didn’t *like* taking vacations…. See how good they are? Keep ‘em up!

Will probably be updating those reference sheets in the near future. Still like that title though. Might have to keep it.
K

Guess i’ve been missing for your last post, i took a little vacation myself to Disney world and universal studios in Florida for a week so….
haha sorry not to brag, it was a good time though.

About your post, i remember you talking about all that back in class, i try and keep that all i mind when i do my own boards ( for fun in most cases) and i even have your little ” karen’s super, oh-so-detailed storyboard reference sheets” posted up on the side of my desk

About your last post, totally agree with the points there, and its funny since i hear that song at least once a day on the radio while i work, and its fairly catchy to say the least, i think if you have a solid story and it can relate to people in some sense, with well developed characters and somehow manage to combine well with good timing you have yourself a blockbuster right there.

Laughs rocket robin hood….check out the old sonic the hedgehog show too ( not so much for these points but for just being silly)

looking forward to your next post!

Yes, of course. *slaps herself in face*
How silly of me. TV animation is ALWAYS about costs. Yesterday, today and forever more.

But I think you know what I meant. If you guys had to hand paint KvK, you’d be skimping WAY more than you had to now, don’t ya think?

Mind you, that high expectation of ‘quality vs cost’ has gotten a little out of hand because of computers. It’s still a crap load of work people!

(And yes, I will be doing the follow up. Thanks! )

@ Friar

Yes, of course. *slaps other side of face*

I realized the additional cuisine after I read your post. The grapes! How could I have forgotten the grapes??

That overlay and animation paid for itself over and over and over…
K

It wasn’t just chicken legs.

The rotation of Friar-Food included (not necessarily in this order) sausage, grapes, apple, chicken leg…sausage, grapes, apple, chicken…

This is an important post. I hope all future board artists pay close attention to your follow-up series. (See: now you have to do it.)

Yes, I think in the day of ‘re-use everything we possibly can’ TV animation, continuity flew right out the window. It was all about cost and they did the best they could to get the thing done. Or they were just lazy asses.

Modern painting techniques and Flash have helped. It’s a crap load of work doing things all hand-drawn.

I always remember the Friar (ha!) eating about 100 chicken legs and the pile never went down. It bugged me as a kid. I’ll be reading that post…haven’t seen that one!

@ Lorin

The live-action directors who do it well and on purpose probably *knew* the rules well before ‘breaking’ them. That’s the difference. If you just never bother to learn them and do it in the name of ‘art’, well…give me a break.

LEARN the rules before throwing them away, folks.

And yes, it doesn’t fly in animation *because* every single shot is planned out and ‘edited’ before the animation is done. So there should be no mistakes like that. Follow the rules because you can. Don’t lose your audience.

And the ‘artsy’ breaking of those rules *rarely* work well in an animated piece. My opinion.

K

On the other hand, I have also seen many-a-flick where everything was put together by someone having a seizure (ie: any given Rob Cohen film…just my opinion). Fortunately, most cartoons are aware of this; I assume because the format is less forgiving of such obvious disregard to the guidelines. That and you have to draw everything.