Joker running pencil test - John Celestri

Animated by John Celestri. This is from an animated commercial for Zellers featuring the Batman characters. This is the Joker running like a madman down an alley .

http://johncelestri.blogspot.com/2011/09/joker-running-away-in-perspective.html

On John's blog he suggested this :

"An interesting timing exercise is to:
1) expose all the drawings on 2 frames (doubling the scene duration);
2) expose the drawings in combinations of 1 frame and 2 frame exposures. You can expose all the drawings where the Joker lands on the ground for 2 frames and also do the same for the "floating" drawings.

You will see how the action will feel different with these varied timings. How you expose the drawings will have a subtle but definite effect on the scene."

Scene is shot so that the first three times it loops it is on a combination of 1's and 2's as John suggests. Then the second version plays all on 1's (loops twice ; a bit more manic/crazy , but still works) . The third time it plays all on 2's , but looks too slow in that version . Then the fourth time it plays through again on a combination of 1's and 2's for comparison. Finally the scene loops three more times with an attempt to do the camera pull-out that is indicated on the original X-sheet starting from 5 Field and pulling out to 9 Field .

YouTube is not always the most dependable in terms of accurate frame rate, so this may drop frames depending on your internet connection. If you want to see it accurately at 24 FPS download the original movie file using something like KeepVid.com or SaveVideo.me then watch it with Quicktime player on your own computer.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• John Celestri
• pencil test
• Batman
• Joker
• Zellers
• hand-drawn animation
• traditional animation
• timing for animation
• Ones and Twos

[InklingStudio]

I'm not entirely happy with the encoding on this ... the YouTube flash player is still occasionally dropping frames. Best to download the .mp4 using SaveVideo.me or KeepVid.com to watch it using Quicktime player. (which also allows you to step through it frame-by-frame .

[MEponyfan]

WOW!! Impressive good animated work. Fascinating.