HB Fun

Here are some neat images from 2 of my favorite sites.

BARBIE'S COLORING AND ACTIVITY BOOKS

I love the look of these early HB cartoons. The BG colors in 2 Corny Crows are really clever and tasty.
Sometimes I think it's harder to pull off simple than complicated.
These layouts have everything I talk about, with just enough detail to give them organic texture.
I think I will take that superficially simple "Nowhere Bear" cartoon from the other day and compare it, creatively point by creative point to some big budget modern animated executive created leviathan. Any ideas of what movie I should use? That furry picture would be good. Or the afro-'tude-frog-princess-revert to our roots and sell more princess dolls picture? There are too many to choose from.

I'll leave out the amount of inbetweens comparison, because obviously if you have an unlimited budget you can afford as many inbetweens as you crave.

YOWP

P.S. Is there someone who lives in the San Fernando Valley who is good at the technical stuff I'm always asking about? I could trade someone a drawing and t -shirt for an hour or 2 of your time.

Happy Thanksgiving

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I guess the thing to be most thankful for is family. It sure inspires the funniest cartoon ideas!
That's me, my sister Elizabeth and my Great Granny.
Here's the 2 sane people in my family, the girls. They are the calm rational ones. Me and my Dad seem to have the hot blooded quick to fight Slavic blood surging through our barbaric veins.
Here's a typical 70s dinner in the wilderness at our Canadian cottage.
Awww....
There's Elizabeth and our pup Jocko.

Here's the crazy 70s when almost all civilization broke down. So Happy thanksgiving to all families, and especially mine (even though Canadian thanksgiving is already a month past!)

L.O. 3b: More Kaspar translations to Layout from Storyboard

This is how I block out poses. Then I stare at them and se what looks toned own.
I see that the expressions have lost a bit -especially in the eyes, so I am gonna go back and push them farther.

But I also was flipping the 2 drawings to make sure they moved right, which further complicates the process of layout while trying to maintain the life of the storyboard.

A Perfect Limited Animation Cartoon For Kids by Ed and Ed

I have a million theories and observations about this cartoon, but can't find a dvd copy of it to make clips from.

thanks

Thanks for all the suggestions about how to embed sound in a picture. I'll try a couple of them tomorrow. About half of you suggested Flash. I'm not sure how that helps. I don't want to make an animatic and then have to upload that to youtube or something and then link back to my blog. Too many steps for me and for the reader.

I just want separate pictures that scroll exactly like they do now, except that I want you to be able to click them and hear the sound-without going to another page and interrupting the flow of the story.

Like a talking comic strip that you read (listen to) at your own pace.

Something simple and fast to do. I'm gonna try Sean's suggestion first.

How do I Embed a Sound File Into a Picture?

Like if I wanted to narrate these images so you could click one and hear me do the voices and still be seeing the picture.

I know how to record a clip in quicktime, but can I stick that clip in the picture?

Is there a simple easy way? Not with a thousand technical steps, cause I'm pretty simple.