I did a couple Ranger Smith cartoons for Cartoon Network eons ago and tried using a bunch of old HB lmied animation techniques. In this scene, I used an Ed Love theory that I had seen in many Huckleberry Hound and Flintstone cartoons. This was the first time I tried it.
I created my basic 3 keys, Here's the down pose.
This is a middle pose.
Here is the up pose. - with the signature neck hotdog that Ed Love uses.I also made inbetweens between these poses, but didn't always use them or sometimes used them as keys for lesser accents. This is an inbetween below.
I tried to make it all fit the dialogue track (voiced by Steve Worth!) another inbetween...
Here's the up key again with a different mouth.
By using a small handful of head key positions and some inbetweens, you can have a big variety of expressions and levels of accents. ( I can't upload the whole scene here, because it will be too big. I'll put up 2 pieces to give you the idea.)http://www.cartoonthrills.org/blog/HB/JohnHB/BooBooWildClips/1howmuchhair.mov
If you watch this scene in its entirety - I guess on TV, you can see a lot of different faces - made up of combinations of head positions and different eyes and mouths for each position and inbetween.
http://www.cartoonthrills.org/blog/HB/JohnHB/BooBooWildClips/croup.mov
Next: Anthony Agrusa applies the same theory to more extreme scenes with smoother animation.
