tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post9190660946651069575..comments2023-12-31T01:23:39.943-05:00Comments on Mayerson on Animation: Pinocchio Part 25Mark Mayersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00065971589878678848noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-57702625317815731842007-09-08T14:35:00.000-04:002007-09-08T14:35:00.000-04:00You've said it perfectly, thespectre, in your last...You've said it perfectly, <I>thespectre</I>, in your last paragraph: why the tuna are designed differently. It sure IS a cheat--and the kind that's dead right and works perfectly for the reasons you surmised.Jenny Lerewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06668171465801333811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27501132.post-7381064144227130872007-08-29T18:04:00.000-04:002007-08-29T18:04:00.000-04:00"His Jiminy has a smaller head than Ward Kimball d..."His Jiminy has a smaller head than Ward Kimball draws for the character."<BR/><BR/>Most of the other animators give Jiminy a smaller head than Kimball does... but Woolie's Jiminy is different in other ways too - I'll need to try and work out what it is though.<BR/><BR/>"Mention must be made of John McManus's tuna animation. The tuna are not characters but they're believable fish and they're animated in ways that don't confuse the eye."<BR/><BR/>I've always found it a bit of a cheat, actually, that the "character" fish in the earlier sequence are colourful and cartoonish, while the fish that Geppetto plans to eat are realistic-looking tuna - mainly, it seems, because it would disgust the audience to show Geppetto planning to eat colourful, cartoonish fish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com