Okay, disclaimer: This is another blink and you’ll miss it animation, and I didn’t even animate it myself! But I wanted to study a Bob Clampett cartoon frame by frame, and applied 15 frames of his animation to my own character.

When I was a kid I would have killed to be able to study animation frame by frame. I think Clampett cartoons are the closest to what I’m trying to achieve, and the flexibility and distortion of his characters would be impossible to do with today’s standard cutout-style animation. As you can see here, when a character in a Clampett cartoon moves, he doesn’t just float from point A to point B; in fact, within the 15 frames (about two thirds of a second), the only drawing elements I could trace over (since they don’t move or deform) were Sam’s toes.

Playing around with character ideas for my next animation; Chicky II suggested a guy eating an apple. I want him to be ridiculously excited about his fruit. Getting there.

Edit: New and improved hand.

Another one of my scribble exercises, as well as an excuse to try out some time-lapse video recording on my iPhone. It’s hard to tell here, but my third and fourth scribbles were done with my foot and mouth, respectively!

Hmm, now that I think of it, I wish I had reversed the order.

Music by Headcrab

I had fun caricaturing Herman Cain, so I thought I’d try another one of one of my favorite stand-up comedians, Louis C.K., who I’ll be seeing live on Saturday.

Truthfully, I’m not thrilled with how this turned out, although I do think I got his smile right.

Like the last one, it was sketched in pencil and inked with markers on good old fashioned paper.

I’m the least political person I know, but I can’t turn on the TV without seeing this dude, so I thought I’d sketch his worried mug. Recognize him?