Smashbits #23: DISNEY XD - Parker Plays Cold Open FINISHED ANIMATION
Added 2018-07-17 03:41:13 +0000 UTC
Here's the most CINEMATIC Parker Plays animation I'll probably ever do! It's only a 5 second gag but it's going to be the cold opening to an episode in Season 2 so I wanted to really sell that "expensive animation" gag. I got this one done ahead of schedule, so I also used it as an opportunity to flex my higher quality animation style while I'm getting screentime on TV. It'll also be some nice practice for my Hoop short film...
Interesting process for this one, they sent me a live action version of this. I used screenshots from it to test out the gag at the end where it cuts back to live action. In the real version I sent them, the ending is transparent so they can mesh my animated filmreel into the live action setting. But Parker wasn't actually doing much for the part they wanted animated, and I could have been really lazy about that, I don't think they would have stopped me, they just wanted it to have shading. That sounded boring and not fun to animate, though, so I boarded up Parker doing a Daffy-Duck-esque bounce around the room. They were really into the idea, and it gave me a much simpler way to approach the shading, so great! I decided to be really unorthodox and turn the storyboards into a pencil test, and then moved straight into the cleaned up animation.
