Tuesday, February 14, 2017

ORIGINAL MUPPET BABIES CELS


If you're looking for 
Muppet Babies news,
then you should probably know that
we recently moved into the new space
set up for us!

It's a 
KILLER
studio with lots of room
and nice views.

Except the walls are a little bare.

Enter
to save the day!

They gave us some great stuff to hang on the walls,
including some
ORIGINAL CELS
from the 
ORIGINAL
MUPPET BABIES SHOW!

Here are some that I picked:

Most of these are from the episode
specifically the part where they spoof
the French Foreign Legion 
comic strip


Pretty much all the cels are stuck to their 
corresponding drawing,
But that's not unusual for cels that have been 
sitting in a box fir years and years.

But I did find one or two loose drawings:






Love seeing all the timing charts and color mark ups:


I also grabbed a chunk of
original
exposure sheets.


These were the blueprints 
sent to the overseas studios
to tell them how the animation should work out
from frame to frame.
Note the Korean translation
next to each instruction.

Each horizontal row is 
ONE FRAME
of film,
24 frames making up
ONE SECOND.



I entered the business right at the tail end
of cel animation.
And to be honest,
I don't miss it.
It's time consuming,
wasteful, messy,
and leveling paint is a nightmare.

But I still love seeing 
real cels!

Thanks
Muppet Studios!


Monday, February 6, 2017

MR. WARBURTON IN THE NEW YORKER!


Have you seen the
February 6th issue of the
New Yorker
on the newsstands,
at the grocery store,
in the library,
or at a friends house?

The one with
cover?

If so,
take a peek inside and check out the article by 
that's 
ALL ABOUT ME!

Unfortunately, they spent 99.999%
of the article talking about 
MO WILLEMS
and only mentioned me once.

There's lots of 
GREAT
stuff about Mo's life, work and process.
DEFINITELY
worth a look.

You can read the whole thing right

Just don't expect to hear much about me.