Floyd Bishop

Many times when you’re an animator, you’ll get a script or some notes with a very vague description of the action you need to create. In the above clip (which wasn’t scripted), you can see lots of great little moments that could help you out on a shot or scene later on. Observation is very important in animation, so let’s look at this clip a bit to see why it is entertaining.

The description of the clip could have been something like: “Two brothers, one older and one younger, are sitting in a chair. The younger brother bites the older brother.” Many times, it’s up to the animator to make that entertaining.

•  Watch how the older brother offers his finger to Charlie. Surely he cannot be hurt by his baby brother.
• As Charlie (the baby) starts to bite, watch the older brother’s face as he starts to realize that putting his finger in [Read more…]

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You may remember a post I did the other day about the Disney short film “Lonesome Ghosts”. While doing some additional research on the short, I found that Mark Mayerson did a shot by shot animator identification for the piece. (Mark has a great blog. Add it to your bookmarks) It’s very interesting to see just how the short was broken up, and who animated which sequences. [Read more…]

When I was a kid, one of my earliest animation related memories was of the Disney cartoon “Lonesome Ghosts”.  Our family doctor had a toy called the Fisher Price Cartoon Viewer, a toy which had interchangeable cartridges which were sections of cartoons. One of my favorites was “Lonesome Ghosts”.

I used to watch the section with Mickey in the flood and Goofy with the dresser over and over again, forward and backward.  It was a great way to see the overlapping action of how things moved and followed the main movement of the characters. I didn’t know this at the time. I was just watching a cartoon.

What are some of your early cartoon influences?

-Floyd Bishop 

I did this video a while ago (last Halloween), but I really enjoy seeing these videos. If you’ve got one, let me know!

-Floyd Bishop