Toons For Liberty

[awake]

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[Revolution9]

Nice caricature stylings. Good political panel.

Rev9

[Simple]

Liberty comics too? The Probability Broach (http://www.bigheadpress.com/tpbtgn)

[awake]

My toons are now in Technicolor... Thought I would make the leap.:toady:

[The One]

I'm disturbed by Ron's missing digits.

Liked it otherwise.

[awake]

I'm disturbed by Ron's missing digits.

Liked it otherwise.

Me too, I am a little disturbed for doing it.

[awake]

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[mosquitobite]

love all of them on your blog Awake. Great job!

[awake]

Thanks..

[jacksonunit]

I'm disturbed by Ron's missing digits.

Liked it otherwise.

Toons have four digits. I thought The Simpsons settled that debate once and for all.

[tremendoustie]

All of these are really outstanding.

[vechorik]

I'm disturbed by Ron's missing digits.

Liked it otherwise.

LOL It's an "artistic thing" to do 3 fingers as 5 looks crowded and unrealistic! No lie.

[awake]

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[awake]

Next up Gingrich

[awake]

bump

[MozoVote]

Nice caricature of Ron's face. I have seen other cartoonists try it, and they have trouble dialing in. A good subject will have readily identifiable, distinguishing features (like Dukakkas's eyebrows back in 1988.) Artists quicky gravitate to those things. Ron's face isn't so easy.

Anyone rendering Santorum, won't be able to resist accenting those teeth, jutting lower jaw, and puffy cheeks.

[Barrex]

Wow really nice.

[awake]

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[Crickett]

I loved them all..but the elephant one had me ROFL! That was great..

[awake]

Toon Bump

[awake]

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[Article V]

LOL It's an "artistic thing" to do 3 fingers as 5 looks crowded and unrealistic! No lie.What the heck? That's a total lie... or at the very least a half-truth. Perhaps that explanation is your interpretation or something you heard somewhere, but the truth is much simpler:

Back in the early days of animation shorts, 1 second of film required 24 frames of animation. 1 minute of film required 1,440 frames of animation. And a typical 7.5 minute cartoon short required no less than 10,800 frames of animation. (That's a lot of drawing! for very little film.) Once each frame was drawn, all 10,800 of them had to be inked and painted to create the finished cels. Animation studios were consistently under a barrage of heavy deadlines to turn out several short films each month; so even if they had an easy month of only 3 short films, it would require the studio draw, ink, and paint about 33,000 cels.

In order to save on costs and to get the drawings finished, inked, and painted faster, animators removed a single digit from the hands of their characters. This allowed them to get their work done faster with less manpower and less expenses lost on materials, thus vastly increasing their company's bottom line as they churned out more material for cheaper costs.

This whole "it looks less crowded and more realistic" spiel is nothing more than marketing jargon someone probably came up with to justify the digit-exclusion when they sold the cartoons. And the buyers believed it because what did they know about animation and who really cared how many fingers a talking mouse in shoes and button-shorts has? No one. Instead, they wanted cute cartoons, fast and cheap. The digit exclusion allowed them to do exactly that.

Economics trumps art. That's the reason cartoons have 3 fingers.

[awake]

Article V has it correct, it is in fact a time saver.

[awake]

bump