This is an image which depicts the use of overshoots in the style of animation that I am going for within my final project. It involves building and allowing for visual weight in movement of the characters. It is the idea that you add anticipation shots that build up energy through squashing as apposed to them just simply moving before showing any build up to the motion. Also upon stopping, deepening on if done suddenly, there is an overshoot frame. This frame is to show an even release of the motion so that the wight of the character inst lost when they stop after movement. This is a technique I will try to take advantage of in my project.

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A style that I would like to use for my project is a style known as “Rubber Hose”, this is so called for the simple yet emotive use of all things almost as though the world was made of rubber. Like the image shown above, it has a time worn look to it. But the actual use of the train bending and wobbling it gives more character to the world and the inanimate objects. The characters are also almost able to do whatever they want, most times breaking rules of the real world with their facial features or moving their bodies in strange, rubber, elongated ways.

The Story that these cartoons usually follow are simple morals because they weren’t very long in the times they were produced as animation was incredibly difficult and expensive to produce in those times as the only people who made them were the pioneers that wouldn’t have widely available software.

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First Draft Idea of FMP

I know that for my final project I want to do something that brings together the animated world of “Rubber hose animation” and the real world. The reason I have come to this conclusion is because I have learnt so much with video editing and cinematography that I think those skills could really compliment my familiarity with software like Animate. 

The idea is to replicate the effect that was so successful in films like “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, which brings the “Looney Tunes” characters into a live action setting. However the difference I want to achieve with this is that the animation style I want to use is 1930′s old style animation. 

This animation style has key features that play in its distinct feel and look. I watched a video on YouTube that documented this style very well. These features include; No smear frames, these are frames with quick motion that blur the frames to give it the illusion of being smoother. In that era of animation it wasn’t possible to create smear frames. Also the animation relied heavily on visual gags that would be impressive and different, therefore most movements were extremely exaggerated. The signature nature of rubber hose is that all the motion is flowing and stretching together, much like a rubber hose :) Although there is not necessarily dialogue as a main feature in these animations, when they do talk, it is more prevalent and therefore it cannot be subtle. Most of the mouth stretch wider than the face itself in occasions. There is an example that breaks this rule however. “Betty Boop” A character created by Max Fleischer, whose mouth doesn’t move at all and is small to a point. This could’ve been because of 1930s views on women was slightly old fashioned and could imply their insignificance. This is something I will not be trying to recreate within my project, although all the other factors are values that are very important to the style and I felt must be stuck to in order to be true to the heritage of the first cartoons.