The Coming of Garage Geeks - Part I

Part One of "The Coming of Garage Geeks"

Visual Development Artwork of Michelle Finkle in her
Spring Outfit -- A Purple Shirt with Rolled-Up Sleeves,
A Pair of Pink Cargo Pants with matching Belt and
even Socks (not shown in this artwork)
and Black-and-White Converse Sneakers

While I am working on finish off "One Crazy Date to Roller Skate!" at Kit Young Center, I've Came Up with another "Bancy" pilot cartoon entitled "Garage Geeks", this time, using Inked-and-Painted Cel Animation for most of the scenes and Digital Inked-and-Painted Traditional Animation (via DigiCel FlipBook) for "multiplane effect" and "background pan" scenes and...



...I Did start with a rough set of storyboard sketches of the battle between Michelle Finkle and Mike's preteen sister Melanie Patterson but the rest didn't quite make it except I will start this "Garage Geeks" production with the story treatment first and, yes, the tools I need to make this 8-minute hand-drawn animated cartoon entitled "Garage Geeks" are actually --

1. 7,000 Sheets of 12-Field ACME-Punched Animation Paper
2. 50 Graphite Drawing Pencils (both "Palomino Blackwing" and "Dixon Ticonderoga" brands alike!)
3. 50 Felt-Tip Pens (Non-Permanent Small-Tip Black "Paper Mate Flair S" ones Only!!!)
4. 6,000 12-Field ACME-Punched Acetate Cels for the Inked-and-Painted Cel Animated Scenes (You Can Get These at Cartoon Colour Company Inc. for Art's Sake!)
5. Two (or More?) Crow-Quill Fountain Dip Pens (for Cel Inking)
6. One (or Two?) Packages of Spare Crow-Quill Pen Points
7. Four (or more?) Colors of Speedball Acrylic Ink (Mine are Black, Green, Blue and Burnt Sienna)
8. Spout-Capped Plastic Squeeze Bottles (and Plastic Jars/Glass Jars) of Cartoon Colour's Top Quality "Cel-Vinyl" Acrylics (for Cel Painting and Background Painting Too!)
9. A Home-Made Animation Camera Stand (mine will be the smaller table top version of the home-made Oxberry animation camera stand)
10. Software for Digital Ink & Paint (your choice of "DigiCel FlipBook" or "Adobe Flash" or other "2D-Animation"-related software such as "Toon Boom" and "TVPaint Animation")
11. Software for Animation Cel Photography using Stop-Motion (My Choice of Stop-Motion Software is actually Aardman Animations' "Animate IT!" for Animator's Sake!!)
12. A Computer (Your choice of "Mac OS X" or "Windows PC")
13. A Digital HD Webcam (Suitable for Both "Mac OS X" and "Windows PC")
14. and, yes, A LOT OF INSPIRATION!!!

To Be Continued!
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P.S., IF Any Comments about Part One of "The Coming of Garage Geeks", Please Let Me Hear From You!

"Warner Bros vs Disney" Rivalry STRIKES AGAIN!

THE "W-B vs. DISNEY" RIVALRY STRIKES AGAIN!!!

Created on Saturday, February 21st, 2015 at 6:10 PM

R.I.P. Alwyn Walter "Walt" Peregoy (Born 11-17-1925 -- Died 1-16-2015)

BAD NEWS for DISNEY ANIMATION FANS...

I Know who'll replace "Wreck-It Ralph" on ABC Family's "Fun Day" Block even though I'm Recording it Sunday Night on 2-22-2015 it is...

..."Home Alone 2 - Lost in New York" and it has that hidden clip from the Chuck Jones-produced Dr, Seuss TV Special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" in one of the scenes and...

...I'M SICK AND TIRED OF THE "LOONEY TUNES' CARTOONS!!!

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Signed,

MICHAEL A. IGAFO-TE'O

P.S., In My Words in Parodied Pop Culture -- "Th-Th-Th-Th...  PISS OFF, TimeWarner!! You've Had Enough of your STUPID RIVALRY on Disney ALREADY!!!"

Traditional Animation Training Days - Part II

We'll Miss You on Disney XD except We'll see your re-runs on
The Disney Channel, Phineas and Ferb!
(I Was SO Disgusted that "Penn Zero Part-Time Hero" replaced
"Phineas and Ferb" after it turns out that "Act Your Age"
(pictured above to your left) and 2 more episodes will be
Phineas and Ferb's LAST episodes!!!)

Not Only I Am Celebrating 65 Years of The 1950 Disney Animated Classic entitled "Cinderella" but, of course, This is Part Two of My Journal on My Own "Traditional Animation Training Days"!    I'm Busy Working on My Tradigital Animated Student Cartoon entitled "One Crazy Date to Roller Skate!" whose key drawings are drawn on pencil and paper except the in-between drawings were done on computer using this software called "Adobe Flash", (I Like both "DigiCel FlipBook" and "Toon Boom" as alternatives to "Adobe Flash"!) I Did start with the storyboard sketches circa Autumn 2014 as my chance to revive my shelved concept of "Mike and Michelle's Perfect Date" which was "shelved" until further notice but, this time, the shelved project is now turned into a student cartoon entitled "One Crazy Date to Roller Skate!" for Animator's Sake!
The Supplies I Needed for The Making of "One Crazy Date to Roller Skate!" are -- 12 RED Prismacolor "Col-Erase" Pencils for the ruffs, 12 Palomino "Blackwing 602" Pencils ("Half the Pressure, Twice the Speed") and 12 Dixon "Ticonderoga" Pencils to tie down the drawings, (Or more Ticonderoga Pencils?) A Battery-Operated Pencil Sharpener, Tons of 12-Field ACME-Punched Animation Paper from Light Foot, A Box of Superfine PaperMate Flair Felt-Tip Pens for the clean-up drawings, "Adobe Photoshop" software, "Adobe Flash" software and MORE YET TO COME!!!    I Sure Felt Sorry for Phineas and Ferb that their Emmy Award-winning Disney TV Cartoon Series are planned to be cancelled after three last episodes starting with "Act Your Age" to make room for newer Disney TV cartoons such as "Penn Zero Part-Time Hero", "Star vs. The Forces of Evil" and others including Disney XD's "Future Worm" and Disney Junior's "The Lion Guard" but, lucky for Phineas and Ferb, I Think they're coming up with a DVD Boxed Set of All 4 Seasons like when Disney Afternoon Fans wrote a petition to have Disney release "Kim Possible - The Complete 3rd and 4th Seasons" on DVD Boxed Set, this time, in Widescreen as originally showcased on 16x9 Widescreen TV Monitors.  Well, Some Student from Concord Schools named Jesse did "perfectly wonderful" on the digital background painting (see picture below to your right) and, yes, Jesse will also be the head of digital in-betweening and animation coloring using "Flash" software.

An Example of a Digital Background Painting of
the "South BancyVille Roller Rink and Arcade Center"
Entrance as digitally colorized by Jesse
(Notice the "accidental mistake" on the face and inner ears of
South BancyVille Roller Rink and Arcade Center's mascot
Pascal the Pastel Green Mouse!)

Even Though I'm planning the upcoming Bancy Studio renovation and that 8-minute hand-drawn animated BancySCOPIX 3D cartoon, I'll make sure that "One Crazy Date to Roller Skate!" will be in production by the time Jesse graduates from Concord Schools on May 2015 and, that way, the post-production work will be entered after a lot of animating, scanning, in-betweening, coloring and lip-synching!

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Yours Sincerely,
MICHAEL A. IGAFO-TE'O

P.S., IF Any Comments About Part Two on My Traditional Animation Training Days, Please Let Me Hear from You!

Curses, TimeWarner!! I Swear I Saw a TOON-KILLER!!!

UPDATED on Saturday, February 21st, 2015 at 7:28 AM

Much to Rocko the Rockhopper's horror and much to Wallace's tears,
They Feared that IF Warner Bros. Animation's "Happy Feet Two" is plotting to replace "Wreck-It Ralph"
on The Disney Channel, Fix-It Felix Junior and Vanellope von Schweetz will
end up getting theirs in such a controversial disaster!!!

OH NO! That Rumor I've Already Found on The OFFICIAL Disney Channel Online TV Schedule for February 2015 has it that Warner Bros. Animation's "Happy Feet Two" is scheduled on Tuesday, February 17th, 2015 to replace "Wreck-It Ralph" after its return on The Disney Channel on Monday, February 16th, 2015 and, OH NO!  It Already (accidentally) cause such "STUDIO RIVALRY" between Warner Bros. Animation (always better known as the "Termite Terrace") and Walt Disney Animation Studios!!!  Even though I Refused to Blame THIS on that "Jetsons" cartoon because I've already got used to that cartoon and already purchased a Judy Jetson plushie from Amazon Dot Com!!!

And after I "failed" to catch "Wreck-it Ralph" on The Disney Channel when Warner Bros. Animation's "Happy Feet Two" DID replace it, I Was so Emotionally Upset that I broke down and started crying my tears out and, as I type on my keyboard, the blame was on the "Looney Tunes" cartoons for crying out loud!    And...








...Here's a STUPID REMARK on The "Six Flags" Amusement Park Chain! --
"Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-... PISS OFF TimeWarner!!! -- YOU'LL BE SORRY!!!"

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Signed,

MICHAEL IGAFO-TE'O

P.S., That "Animaniacs" Cartoon has been driving Me FRICKIN' CRAZY THE WHOLE TIME SINCE I'VE GROWN TO HATE IT!!!!
2nd P.S., I Did Make a Plan to Re-Record "Wreck-It Ralph" on HD DVR, this time, on Sunday Night on ABC Family!

My Review on that "Art Thief" episode of ABC-TV's "Forever"

EDITED on Monday, February 9th, 2015 at 7:34 AM

I Know It would sound upsetting but I cannot believe that My Mom and Dad "ditched" my time on playing that "Disney Infinity" video game for watching ABC-TV's "Forever" on HD DVR and, you know what?!? -- I BLAME "THE REPLACEMENTS" FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!!

"Aw, You Poor Thing,...   Why the Mope?"
This is an actual screenshot from a "Bugs Bunny and Witch Hazel" cartoon
as directed by legendary Warner Bros. animator, Chuck Jones (1912-2002)

"I Can't Believe That I'm Seeing This 'FILTH' for Crying Out Loud!" said Phineas with a sense of revenge against Todd and Riley Daring, "I Am Sick of 'The Replacements' because Agent K is a RIP-OFF of 'Kim Possible', Dick Daring is an idiot and worse -- Todd and Riley are plotting revenge against Kim Possible and Me!".   "PHINEAS! ENOUGH WITH 'THE REPLACEMENTS' ALREADY!!" snapped Bancy McMouser angrily as I was hovering under the covers from my doom on that "Art Thieving Nazi" episode of "Forever", "YOU KNOW WHAT PHINEAS?!? I CAN'T STAND TODD & RILEY DARING FOR THEIR GUTS BECAUSE THEY WERE TRYING TO 'ATTACK' YOU AND KP TO A MILLION PIECES!!!"    Bancy McMouser (one of my cartoon creations) thinks that not only that "The Replacements" was a RIP-OFF of "Kim Possible" (and, yes, a rip-off of the "Spy Kids" movies) but He also thinks that IT contains some random acts of assault on female characters, (for example of when Todd slaps Riley in her face in the "Field Trippin'" episode and when the invisible ninjas 'attack' Agent K to her doom until Dick Daring, even though Agent K and Dick accidentally switched bodies with some machine, saved Agent K from her doom in the "Buzzwork Orange" episode) a few acts reckless behavior (for example of when Todd drops Riley's "Dustin Dreamlake" plate to shattered pieces in the "Garage Sale Daring" episode) and a couple acts of such "horny" conflicts between Jacobo and Agent K (for example when Jacobo claims that he's in love with Todd's Super Spy Mom in the "Late Night with Todd and Riley" episode and even imagines growing a giant venus fly trap that the giant venus fly trap itself swallows Dick Daring whole and Agent K, crying over the loss of her beloved daredevil husband, doomed to be Jacobo's future wife in the "Todd-Busters" episode even though it was just Jacobo's imagination -- Man That Jacobo is SO HORNY over Agent K!!!)

With apologies to Disney animator Ron Husband but Sunday, February 8th, 2015 was his 65th Birthday!
And Here is a "close-up photo" of some little 1-ounce jars of Cel-Vinyl Paint as ordered in custom colors by
The Walt Disney Studios and it is actually my desktop wallpaper for my MacBook Pro laptop
from D23 -- The Official Disney Fan Club!

Traditional Animation Training Days - Part I

My Own 12-Field "PRO-GRADE" Acrylic Animation Disc
that I've bought from Cartoon Colour for $300
on Christmas 2012 -- Notice the
Red-and-Yellow Sharpie Marker Decor on
the "top" and "bottom" sliding "Acme" peg bars and, yes,
the Bancy Studios sticker logo on the top sliding pegbar
(Sorry that the "Bancy Studios" sticker logo is covered by
a sheet of 12-Field animation paper with a hand-drawn
"Don Bluth"-style TV cut-off/Theater cut-off matte frame
("The Outer 4x3 Frame is what Older TVs will see but
Theaters will crop the top and bottom off IF they're using
widescreen! -- Television will cut off, so will the theaters")

Finally, Here I've Typed Up a Little Something (well, after finally having my "tradigital" animated student cartoon short film entitled "One Crazy Date to Roller Skate" out of the Bancy Studio vault and into production at my "animation" division at Kit Young Center in Jackson, Michigan) is actually Part One of My Blog Journal on "My Traditional Animation Training Days" for Animator's Sake!

The "Tools of the Trade" to make my very own 8-minute hand-drawn animated cartoon in Red/Cyan Anaglyph 3D are --

1. A 12-Field Guide from Cartoon Colour (NTSC Full Screen -- I Used to have the 16x9 Widescreen Chromacolour 12-Field Guide with the "falsified" Acme Peg Holes but, that exact same Chromacolour 12-Field Guide was Missing in Action! OH NO!!)
2. 7,000 Sheets of 12-Field ACME-Punched Animation Paper -- Notice that the "12-Field" Size is 10-1/2 inches by 12-1/2 inches for Animator's Sake!))
3. "Toon Boom Storyboard Pro" Software (for Digital Storyboard Sketching)
4. 50 RED Prismacolor "Col-Erase" Pencil for the "rough drawings"
5. 50 Graphite Pencils in both Dixon "Ticonderoga" and Palomino "Blackwing" Brands to tie down the drawings ("Half the Pressure" and "Twice the Speed" on all Blackwing Pencils!)
6. 50 Non-Permanent "Paper-Mate Flair" Felt-Tip Pens (Just the "Ultra Fine" point tip size for doing "clean-up animation drawings")
7. 5 "Latex-Free" Kneaded Erasers (for those that have "latex allergies" that is!)
8. An "RPS Lighting RS-C920" Line Tester Copy Stand with working HD Webcam for Mac Users (to "shoot animation drawings into my MacBook Pro laptop computer using "DigiCel FlipBook" software)
9. "DigiCel FlipBook" Software for Mac Users (Someday during 2015 to 2016, I'll Upgrade My "Mac OS X" Copy of "DigiCel FlipBook" from its "Lite" version to the student animator/junior animator-friendly "Studio" version when I have the money to do so)
10. "iMovie" Video Editing Software for Post-Production "Online Video Editing"
11. Aiseesoft Technologies' "3D Converter" App to convert 2D to Anaglyph 3D (IF I'm Using My Own Red/Cyan anaglyph "BancySCOPIX 3D" Process?)
12. Packages of Blank "DVD+R" Video Discs for Exporting The Final Cut to DVD complete with Red/Cyan "BancySCOPIX 3D" Glasses purchased from the Rainbow Symphony Store!!!

And, to make my own 8-minute hand-drawn animated cartoon in BancySCOPIX 3D, with my "tools of the trade" already listed above,...




...Here's My Own Hand-Drawn Animation Process IF I'm using My Own Red/Cyan Anaglyph "BancySCOPIX 3D" Process --

Remember This Digitally-Colored Drawing
of Mr. Jinks the Cat as a layout artist working on
the character designs for "Scooby-Doo"
that was hand-drawn on pencil and paper before being
scanned into a computer for digital coloring for
the now-defunct "Funamation" website which guides
Hanna-Barbera fans to explore the H-B traditional
animation process originally updated in The Mid-1960's
until the "analog" age of Hanna-Barbera animation
was upgraded with Digital Ink & Paint software and
computers altogether taking over the ink and paint step
in the early 2000's shortly before the merge with
Warner Bros. Animation???

1. Script Treatment
2. Scratch Track Dialogue Recording (for Storyboard Reel)
3. Storyboard
4. Voice Recording
5. Track Reading (on Exposure Sheets a.k.a. X-Sheets or Dope Sheets)
6. Layout Design (on Characters and Backgrounds)
7. Ruff Animation (Rough Drawings)
8. Rough Pencil Test
9. Clean-Up Animation (Cleaned-Up Drawings)
10. Final Pencil Test
11. Background Scanning and Digital Background Painting
12. Animation Scanning
13. Digital Color Model Design
14. Computerized Ink & Paint and Digital Compositing
15. Online Film Editing and Post-Production Sound
16. Export to Digital Video File and 2D-to-3D Converting (in both Red/Cyan "BancySCOPIX" and Magenta/Green "Trioscopics" Versions via Aiseesoft's "3D Converter" App)
17. Post-Production Final Video Editing on 3D Versions of that average "Bancy" cartoon that would've been the "Final Cut"
18. Digital Film Transfer to DVD using Blank "DVD+R" Discs with matching 3D Glasses (The First Half of "Red/Cyan" 3D Glasses and the other of "Magenta/Green" 3D Glasses)

The 8-Minute Hand-Drawn Animated "BancySCOPIX 3D" Cartoon I'm Planning to work on is something called "The Untitled BancySCOPIX 3D Cartoon Project" which will start pre-production from Spring 2015 until Summer 2018! (or Autumn 2018 or Spring 2019?)