A video flier for the May 2009 Anime Hell shows. Inspired by Marv Newland's Bambi Meets Godzilla.

If you've never seen Marv Newland's Bambi Meets Godzilla then this will mean nothing to you. In this age of youTube I'd be surprised. After all, it's only been around since 1969. Here's the Wikipedia entry with a link to it on youTube:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi_Meets_Godzilla

I got the idea to do this while I was animating the Godzilla-esque monster attacking the city part of the Anime North video flier. So, I watched Bambi Meets Godzilla over and over and tried to break it down. This is my take on the original gag, and It's almost how I wanted it. Ideally I'd like to add more frames and slow down the title crawl to fit the music, but I'm outta time. It's gotta go up today or it's pointless.

You may notice that the animated dude isn't animated in my usual squigglevision. I'm not sure what they call this technique, but it's actually less frames then the squiggle line way. I'm drawing a frame and then holding it. I'm only actually animating between the held frames, so it looks like little bursts of movement. It looks like there's more animation then there actually is.

And the funny thing is it was easier to animate the dude then to animate the title crawl. The title crawl took three nights to figure out.

And I'm not sure why, but Vimeo doesn't seem to like the file. So, download the quicktime file to see the best version of the cartoon. I don't know what's going on with Vimeo, but it's dropping frames left and right on this one. I didn't have this problem with the other cartoons I uploaded this week. What the hey?