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CREATED on Sunday, April 19th, 2015

An Example of a "Roger Rabbit"-stylized Mixed Media Collage Artwork of Bancy with Mabel Pines,
Donald Duck's Nephews, (Huey, Dewey and Louie) and Tom the Cat surrounding Me as I was listening to
The 1996 "Brian Setzer Orchestra" Edition of the "AristoCats" song "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat"
which this 11-inch by 17-inch collage (developed on Autodesk SketchBook Express for the Digital 2D Drawings and
MS PowerPoint for the Live-Action Photo combined with the Digital 2D Drawings on a MacBook Pro laptop)
of Me with the toons under the "Bancy Gets REAL!" series entitled "Michael's Top Toons on The Loose!"

Sorry about the half-month delay but, this time, I've posted this final blog article for April 2015 and, of course, not only I've "ditched" that "Danny Phantom" to rediscover "SpongeBob SquarePants" on HD DVR (including "Skill Crane" and "The Krabby Chronicle") but I've also went on community outings to Marino's Pizza and More on Parnall Road in Jackson, Michigan and Chuck E. Cheese's of Lansing, Michigan during my girlfriend Hannah "Savannah" Garcia's 20th Birthday (even though Hannah is my female fiance) and, yes, Target at The Jackson Crossing Mall (after Target HQ's system finally got fixed and is rid of hackers) and McDonald's at West Avenue in Jackson, Michigan even though that McDonald's use to have a smaller "PlayPlace" soft play area but The Michigan Avenue Location in Jackson still has a PlayPlace soft play area -- unless that NEW "PlayPlace" soft play area already is taking over the old one?

An Actual Screenshot of a Eric Goldberg scene in The 1994
"Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote" Cartoon entitled
"Chariots of Fur" even though Eric Goldberg was given
a fake name by an executive of Chuck Jones Enterprises as
"Claude Raynes" -- Note that Wile E. Coyote is
about to get flattened with a boulder on top of his head!

I'm Currently working my Tradigital Animated student short film entitled "One Crazy Date to Roller Skate!" which is based on my "Bancy and Company" ideas and those ideas will be later used for my full 8-minute hand-drawn animated cartoon entitled "Adam and Amy that Came to Lunch" where that film reveals that Mike Patterson has two twin sibling cousins, Adam and Amy Foxworthy, visiting from Jefferson City, Missouri -- even though that "Mouser City, Missouri" is a fictional city which is actually a combined caricature of "Traverse City, Michigan" and "Culver City, California" -- but unfortunately, Adam and Amy Foxworthy are driving Toby Ratwaller crazy while Bancy McMouser is relaxing in a hot tub at the BancyToon Filmworks animation studio's "indoor swimming pool" section of its "Cafe and Fitness Center" area -- until Mike stops the madness just in time!   Also, the tools to make an 8-minute hand-drawn animated short film are --

1. 7,000 Sheets of Pre-Punched Animation Paper (10-Field (8.5" x 11") or 12-Field (10.5" x 12.5") with your peg hole choice of "Acme" or "3-Round" or even "2-Round")

2. 50 Graphite Pencils (Palomino Blackwing and/or Dixon Ticonderoga or any other brand)

3. 50 Col-Erase Pencils ("RED" or "BLUE")

4. An Animation Light Box (10-Field or 12-Field)

5. A Line Tester Copy Stand (Buy One from rather Lightfoot or B&H Photo and Video or Make Your Own using wood, metal, a spare peg bar (ACME or 3-Round or 2-Round) and a Mint-Conditioned Webcam that runs on HD Quality

6. Animation Software for Digital Ink & Paint ("DigiCel FlipBook Lite" or "DigiCel FlipBook Studio" or "TVPaint Animation")

And, A WHOLE LOT OF INSPIRATION!!!!

P.S., IF Any Comments about My Latest Blog Post from April 2015, Please Let Me Hear from You!

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!

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?)