This is a compilation of the Walk Cycle Test Animation I created during the development period for 'King Of The Hill', made before the first season of the series which ran on Fox Television Network.(This clip is very repetitive and heavily edited along with the music...just to be abstract!!!)
This is test animation for Hank Hill, Bobby,and Boomhauer.
'King Of The Hill' ran on Fox from January 12, 1997 -- September 13, 2009, a staggering 11 seasons!!!
The series was created by Mike Judge, and was produced for Fox at Film Roman studios, who also produced the "Simpsons" for them as well. Many of the directors from the "Simpsons" moved over to 'KOTH" when that got green lit, along with consultant Brad Bird.
I had worked with Film Roman on a few development properties, and this was my first time working in-house, as a regular full-time employee,on one of their series.Outside of the development department, I had worked as a Key assistant animator on their "Tom and Jerry" feature,but I did that freelance.
Phil Roman convinced me to develop the character animation style for the lead characters in KOTH, and at that time, the series was new, and L.A. animation artist were hesitant to work on the series, because it looked like "Beavis and Butthead",which was considered to be bad looking by many in town.
I liked Mike Judge, and 'Beavis and Butthead"was funny, and the style presented the opportunity to create or own look, and animation motion style.
I tackled Hank Hill, the star of the series first, and I animated it very Fully,in somewhat of a Disney-feature animation approach.
I posed Hank in a new position, tilted his head back, in order to coincide with the direction and performance that Supervisor Wes Archer, and producer Greg Daniels acted out in front of me, ...and Wes said to base his walk pattern off of John Wayne, and I put it all together from there.
I work from a rough set of key animation poses,construct them for solidity, and I incorporate the revisions and changes from the staff, and put a tied down final line around the animation.
The drawings for each character are tagged A,B,C, so you can identify which one came first for each character.
This is a heavily edited clip,and reflects only the major points in the developmental animation for these characters.I like to do things over, and over, and over again,in order to nail it!!!
This is a rare behind the scenes look at how a characters performance is created by a developmental animator like myself, and take note of the several levels of revisions, which i always welcome.I approach my animation much like a professional skateboarder approaches nailing a new stunt...I do it over, until I get it right!
This is completely hand drawn, 2D animation, and the wrinkles in the paper come from my hands flipping the paper on an animation board, as used in traditional animation, so, those of you out there that are afraid of pencil and paper....BEWARE!!!!lol..Just know that I can do the same thing digitally and paperless,if that is required, with a Wacom Bamboo or a Cintiq!!!Does not matter!!!
(Animated by Jerry L. Brice for Fox TV and Film Roman Studios 1996)
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Walk Cycleby Cattleyakim45,867 views
For some reason Bobby always disgusted me, I not saying your animation is bad, I just saying Bobby is creepy.
PestigeKelpone 1 year ago
@PestigeKelpone ...Boys not right!!LOL...
Jerrybrice 1 year ago
your video came thru a related video of mine lol nice job
MixedBreedE 1 year ago
@MixedBreedE ...thanks man!
Jerrybrice 1 year ago
Amazing. I'm a big fan of King of the Hill. How much of the animation in King of the Hill did you do?
yaqoob456 1 year ago
@yaqoob456 I did walk cycles like these for all the male lead characters in the series, and then I worked on the series as an animation timer, and a character layout artist,where we create key animation poses and layout compositions from the storyboards for the first three years of the series.
Jerrybrice 1 year ago