EXTREME CARTOON ANIMATION
Learning a new style
On my second year at university I decided I wanted to explore the style of animation that started in 2D but is slowly moving to 3D, a very cartoony style.
STUDYING EXTREME POSING
In order to learn a bit more focused on to what makes this style stand out I decided to watch the new Mickey Mouse shorts, I would stop whenever I saw an interesting pose and then I would sketch it. After, I would pose it in 3D using the Toy Rig.
THE FUN STYLE
This style uses exaggerated character poses inspired by old Warner Brothers cartoons and animation pioneers such as Tex Avery and Chuck Jones. There is a deliberate focus on creating interesting shapes and fast staccato movement rather than physically accurate postures and motion. This is combined with smear frames that allow characters to move quickly between extremes positions while retaining a certain visual clarity. Frame specific motion blur has been combined with additional key frames and extreme poses to ensure the interesting shapes created during fast movements would retain their silhouettes. Not all actions are exaggerated and fast; Tartakovsky has created contrast in the movement vocabulary by combining moments of extreme cartoon exaggeration with very controlled and subdued movement for dramatic moments.