Fellow New Jersey-ian, James Roberts creates cartoons in his spare time. He digs Fred Flintstone and his stuff is also based on converting his ready made storyboard comic strips into animation. Plus his character, Naybob, looks like a relative to Family Pant’s Frank Mueller!!
Check Mr. Robert’s cartoon, comic strip from whence it came and the kind bit of shameless Family Pants promotion he threw my way!
Steve Moore is an animator who runs FlipAnimation, an online “magazine” about animation. I was priveledged to have him ask me a couple of questions about animation for issue #3, the July Independant Animators issue!
A friend and fellow animator Xeth Feinberg was also featured. (Xeth created Bulbo and practically animated Queer Duck the movie single handedly. His new name should be Xeth “Ub” Feinberg.)
Anyway, thanks to Steve Moore!
Family Pants and I got a great write up on Thinking Animation Book blog the other day! Angie Jones is an accomplished 3-D artist running that blog as well as this site selling flowers for your hair!
Thanks Angie!
Although I’m a 2-D-Flash-kind of guy, I always wondered what Family Pants would look like in 3-D…
Here’s a question for you 3-D peoples. Is 3-D advantageous over 2-D?
I’d think, it would be easier to pair talented, yet totally differently styled artists together yet still keep the production consistant. In other words, if you take a guy like me and a guy who’s great at drawing Spiderman and put them next to each other in a production, we’d have to adapt our styles to match each other to work well together. (Hey, that’s animation… I’d think this difficult aspect is why some animation productions opt for a “crude” style. They’d call it “hip” or “minimal” and some would call it “bad art”, but really it’s a practical way to make it easier to adapt to.)
But, in 3-D, since we’re manipulating a 3-D model, our “styles” wouldn’t matter. You can hire the guy or gal you want, rather than the one guy who works well in your style or spend time training a person to adapt.
I mentioned this to a couple 3-D artists and they countered with the time you save “training to adapt” would be spent building models.
But still, after the model is built, wouldn’t it be faster to manulipulate a model than draw frame by frame?
I guess the only real way to settle the debate would be to buy the book Angie wrote, learn 3-D, make something then compare! It’d be a kind of animation John Henry race!
Family Pants is now appearing on ToonBreak.com!
Shawn McInerney, founder of Moose Mouse Media asked that Family Pants appear on his new video portal dedicated to animation! He’s using Revver technology to hopefully generate revenue for the hard working animators appearing on ToonBreak.
If you’re an animator and have some good stuff, send Shawn a line.
I mentioned Revver in an interview with with Ryan Ritchy. Revver has an interesting idea, splitting advertising money with the creator’s who make the eye-candy. Hopefully it takes off.
Making money on the internet? Ay… there’s the rub!
Family Pants is now available for digital download or for digital renting, through Amazon.com’s UnBox!
When in doubt, always draw a man’s ass! It seems by far the most popular Family Pants cartoon is “Canned Ham!” It was selected as “Best of the Web in ‘07″ by AWN.com. Here’s the write up!
Funny, the second most popular was Hero Dog… That one was about urine! Hmm… I think I’m onto something!
Well “Hole in ‘Da Roof!” may not have as much ass, but how’s about nipple? The following sequence is from the “Hole in ‘Da Roof!” DVD and go as follows: Frank notes the sun is hot and thus potentially dangerous to his exterior. He pulls out some sun tan lotion and bares his manly-ness to ask his pal Gruno to gently apply the protective cream to his exposed area. Gruno hesitates his next move…
A staple of my blog diet CartoonBrew.com, posted a little flattery on me! Thanks to Jerry Beck and Amid Amidi!
Read Family Pants’s 3-Star DVD Review on UsedWigs.com! Since they’re constantly updating the site, you can check out the review on the Family Pants’ Amazon link. But be sure to check the actual site as it’s pretty funny!
I found this link called The Dog Days of Animation by Paul Briggs and thought, what the hell, I’ll draw a dog. Mr. Briggs was kind enough to post it. (I’m no. 29 on the list!)
See some Family Pants Cartoons on AniBoom.com. Launched in 9/06 they are an animation portal dedicated to building the ultimate home for animators and animation lover around the world! Much like ManiaTV.com, only dedicated to animation alone.
