Post Hanna Barbera Stuff
Post Hanna Barbera Stuff
Austin Jackson
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Oliver Flores
Nicholas Mitchell
Thomas King
Gavin Cooper
Samuel Evans
Austin Phillips
you just know
Anthony Cox
Jacob Wood
Noah Edwards
Did anyone watch this video on the cancelled Hanna Barbera Batman show yet
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Luke Price
Early Top Cat designs by Ed Benedict
Camden Hughes
Nathaniel Martin
So many of HB's characters were too well-designed for such dogshit animation.
Jeremiah Nguyen
Tyler Robinson
I think the budget was $3000 per episode, which is about $29000. They clearly gave a shit (in the 60s at least), but with virtually no budget and none of the tech we have today, it's the best they could do.
Juan Collins
HB were experienced with animation prior to the foundation of their independent company they were the guys who heavily contributed to tom and jerry (along with fred quimby) and droopy. The style they went with the HB cartoons are well appealing characters that can basically be background layers while the actual animation is just the head and the mouth moving instead of the bodies. You either make well appealing characters and good art with low frame rate, or cheap characters and background art with high frame rate which is a lot of western studios do today.
Isaac Hall
Austin Nelson
Have I got a video for you.
Jacob Thompson
I certainly don't fault the animators for those restraints. My issue is with the studios that thought cheapening the quality was a good choice in the first place.
"If it looks like shit, who cares if the story is any good? Kids will watch it either way."
It's the primary reason why animation is still seen in the west as "for children".
Carson Thompson
>I certainly don't fault the animators for those restraints. My issue is with the studios that thought cheapening the quality was a good choice in the first place.
HB had no other skills besides animation and managing an animation studio, it was either that or starve/live with a wagie like the rest of american society
Tyler Richardson
Thank Ed Benedict. Former Disney and MGM veteran who brought his skills to designin characters that are more complex than they may initially appear in their construction. It was around '65 that Iwao Takamoto, a former assistant to Milt Kahl, took over as like THE main guy designin all the H-B characters.
I did a pisstake on the H-B style myself by doin what the studio did from time to time, which was just convert celebrities and their mannerisms into characters. Take a wild guess who these two are based on.
Gabriel Sanchez
I wouldn't call Tom & Jerry cheap, or any other popular characters of the time for that matter. I'd say they were "simpler" but compensated with a lot more expressiveness. You can still recognize them very easily in silhouette.
Ryan Thomas
Does anyone know what paint
technique they use for creating the texture look on the rocks?
Looks like it’s hard to replicate that technique digitally.
Carson Campbell
Iwao Takamoto preferred "realistic" designs over the cartoony ones Benedict and Dick Bickenbach did in the late 50s and early 60s. Takamoto's actual drawings look good, but they were all dumbed down to fit TV budgets.
Lincoln Sullivan
I remember readin years ago on John K's blog when John brought up H-B scenery. He talked with one a the early background artists, Art Lozzi, and Lozzi said he liked usin stuff like sponges lightly dipped in paint to get those rich textures on otherwise simple layouts. You also see him use sponges a lot on the Yogi bear cartoons, take a look back through some a those cartoons if ya can, it's everywhere.
Henry Cook
>it was either that or starve/live with a wagie like the rest of american society
which highlights issues with the way the industry/economy was/is structured. Similar issue in Japan: Anime animators get paid pennies for nearly a century because Astro Boy had to negotiate as much just to exist back then and the whole industry just kept doing that ever since. That's fucked.
It always goes back to the 9 old men. Really laid the foundation for everything we know today.