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SnowBuni animation projects
Dec 30^th, 2009 at 10:48pm

So, I thought I already had a topic regarding the various SnowBuni animation projects which we have considered over the years, but I could not find it. So, here goes...

Back in the late 1980s, MU Press publisher Edd Vick spent some money to develop a series of animation shorts featuring his cadre of book titles at that time (including SnowBuni).

Some preliminary work was completed, including a script for SnowBuni's introductory animation, character designs, and background samples.

Animator Lou Scarborough also did some preliminary work on an animated version of SnowBuni.

I'm not sure exactly why this project was never completed (in concept, it was very cool and would have made an interesting demo reel for MU Press), but I suspect that the capital investment was a bit too steep for our resources at the time.

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jhwood9 YaBB Administrator Offline Artist Formerly Known as BuniMan Posts: 7027 Northwestern United States Gender:	Re: SnowBuni animation projects Reply #1 - Dec 30^th, 2009 at 10:58pm Game designer Dean Dodrill (of Elysian Tail fame) and I embarked on an ambitious "dance jukebox" project featuring a fully-animated SnowBuni by Dean, but completed only a simple side-step loop. We both had other priorities, and eventually let the matter drop.
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Reply #3 - Dec 31^st, 2009 at 9:01pm

jhwood9 wrote on Dec 30^th, 2009 at 10:48pm:

Animator Lou Scarborough also did some preliminary work on an animated version of SnowBuni.

That's amazing. He's worked on like...everything!

Well, thanks for the bit of history and starting this thread. (I was looking for that old thread too. IRC, there was a link to a Hong Kong Phooey clip done in Flash and a passing reference to Krantz productions. Can't find it now and I swore I read it. Embarrassed

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Sooo...what style would you like to see used on a SB cartoon?

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Reply #4 - Jan 4^th, 2010 at 11:52pm

neeters_guy wrote on Dec 31^st, 2009 at 9:01pm:

That's amazing. He's worked on like...everything!

He has quite the impressive work history.

Scarboropolis (Scroll down for art samples)

neeters_guy wrote on Dec 31^st, 2009 at 9:01pm:

Well, thanks for the bit of history and starting this thread. (I was looking for that old thread too. IRC, there was a link to a Hong Kong Phooey clip done in Flash and a passing reference to Krantz productions. Can't find it now and I swore I read it. Embarrassed

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Actually, I deleted the discussion with the Hong Kong Phooey link, because the link was 404 (non-repairable, I think the Flash clip was taken offline). I'm constantly doing small upgrades to the forums, including weeding dead threads. I try to keep the ones with good content and active links.

I thought there was a different discussion, though, containing details of my animation projects. Couldn't find it, though, so maybe it got "weeded" some time ago.

neeters_guy wrote on Dec 31^st, 2009 at 9:01pm:

Sooo...what style would you like to see used on a SB cartoon?

Hmmm. Monsters, robots, bunnygirls wearing exotic bikinis in SteamPunk-style hot tubs, and very cool spacesuits, space ships, and skiwear. Deadly, strange, scary aliens dredged from the fathomless pits of nightmare. A gratuitous shower scene, a gratuitous fist fight. And maybe a ghost (or perhaps the Spectre of Death), for seasoning.

Well, that shouldn't be too hard.
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Reply #5 - Jan 5^th, 2010 at 11:32am

jhwood9 wrote on Jan 4^th, 2010 at 11:52pm:

Monsters, robots, bunnygirls wearing exotic bikinis in SteamPunk-style hot tubs, and very cool spacesuits, space ships, and skiwear. Deadly, strange, scary aliens dredged from the fathomless pits of nightmare. A gratuitous shower scene, a gratuitous fist fight. And maybe a ghost (or perhaps the Spectre of Death), for seasoning.

In the second episode, we can get REALLY crazy... Cheesy

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Reply #7 - Jan 5^th, 2010 at 1:42pm

neeters_guy wrote on Dec 31^st, 2009 at 9:01pm:

Sooo...what style would you like to see used on a SB cartoon?

Hmmm... I don't seem to have answered the question correctly the first time (I listed content more than style).

Oddly enough, I often imagined a project featuring the toy-like style seen in many classic stop-motion Christmas stories, such as Santa Claus is Coming to Town or Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. I wouldn't mess around with the puppets, though, but design everything using computer animation (such as the Mariah Carey remake of the Santa Clause theme song).

Sorry about the poor quality image; this is the best I could get with a screen grab from the YouTube video.

Santa Claus is Coming to Town by Mariah Carey

Unlike the kid's show, my hypothetical SnowBuni short would include photo-realistic effects, such as fire, explosions, mecha action, armored humanoids, etc. In addition, I would like to see atmospheric effects (which are mostly ignored in modern cinema); for example, when someone steps into a spaceship from an airlock, the glass visor should immediately frost from the temperature change.

I would also use injury effects (sparingly) to demonstrate that dangerous activities have harsh consequences.

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Reply #8 - Jan 6^th, 2010 at 8:47am

>I think there already was a Saturday morning cartoon show featuring intelligent diary confections.

It's a favourite staple of them edutainment PSA's, but in the late 80's there WAS "Food Fighters," a series of figures based on combat-prone edibles. I THINK there was a cartoon too. (Or at least a pilot.)

http://www.figurerealm.com/FiguresListChk.php?SID=315

>I often imagined a project featuring the toy-like style seen in many classic stop-motion Christmas stories

....really? Weird. (Although I'd compare Snowbuni to "Mad Monster Party.")

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Reply #9 - Jan 7^th, 2010 at 11:06pm

ctc wrote on Jan 6^th, 2010 at 8:47am:

It's a favourite staple of them edutainment PSA's, but in the late 80's there WAS "Food Fighters," a series of figures based on combat-prone edibles. I THINK there was a cartoon too. (Or at least a pilot.)

...and it proves that there isn't any concept so weird that it hasn't already been tried somewhere.

Food Fighters at Wikipedia

ctc wrote on Jan 6^th, 2010 at 8:47am:

>I often imagined a project featuring the toy-like style seen in many classic stop-motion Christmas stories

....really? Weird. (Although I'd compare Snowbuni to "Mad Monster Party.")

Never heard of it... until now.

Mad Monster Party at Wikipedia

Dude! You nailed it!
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I'm working to install a 3D program on my home computer this week, and I plan to initiate some SnowBuni models in this style.

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Re: SnowBuni animation projects
Reply #10 - Jan 7^th, 2010 at 11:29pm

jhwood9 wrote on Dec 30^th, 2009 at 10:48pm:

Some preliminary work was completed, including a script for SnowBuni's introductory animation, character designs, and background samples.

I've managed to recover some of the concept sketches. Please to excuse feeble anatomy; I was still using the "lumpy puppet" style when I completed these.

I haven't found the script, but IIRC SnowBuni was attending a live demo in which a variety of chemical recombinants were tested on a captive malform. Unexpected side effects result in the explosive growth and subsequent violent escape of the creature... Snow manages to subdue the monster in close-quarters combat, all others at the scene are wholly or partially eaten.

Test chamber:

The script was modeled after a real incident, the Slotin Excursion, in which a physicist botched a nuclear demonstration and accidentally irradiated himself and a group of scientists.

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jhwood9 YaBB Administrator Offline Artist Formerly Known as BuniMan Posts: 7027 Northwestern United States Gender:	Re: SnowBuni animation projects Reply #13 - Jan 7^th, 2010 at 11:34pm Even a short demo film requires a complete character design for each person in the piece, in this case one of the doomed victims.
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jhwood9 YaBB Administrator Offline Artist Formerly Known as BuniMan Posts: 7027 Northwestern United States Gender:	Re: SnowBuni animation projects Reply #14 - Jan 7^th, 2010 at 11:41pm The power of the creature is demonstrated when it defeats a military leader present at the conference.
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