Thursday, 9 April 2020

402 #9 - Steamed Hams Reanimated

With the invention of the Internet, YouTube, and increasingly powerful home computers, animators are able to create animation at home, with complete creative control, all they need is time. Because of this, many animators have risen to prominence on platforms like YouTube and are able to create projects and series they have complete control over for a living, which many studio based animators are unable to do.
A very popular form of animation on YouTube is a Multi-Animator Project (or MAP), which is usually a group of animators animating their own or their favourite characters to a song, piece of dialogue, or scene.
Personally, I have participated in many MAPs on YouTube, some of my first bigger animation projects were MAPs, so I have a soft spot for them. A favourite of mine is a reanimation of a famous scene from the Simpsons; Steamed Hams. The animation was created by 13 animators who all animated 13 seconds of footage each. The video is actually titled 'Steamed Hams but There's a Different Animator Every 13 Seconds' and is hosted by YouTuber AlbinoBlackSheep.
I've included both an in-blog version and a link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8R3qHKS-dk&list=PL13WX51WMMuiIGJG8J5Hs4EL6XaBOAVym&index=57&t=43s
Some of the animated segments are very well done, with fluid animation and exaggeration that fits the humour of the original scene.


I also very much love how some of the animators changed the origins of the original sound effects, like the burger taking a bite out of the Superintendent's head rather than the other way around and using the original sound effects to make it fit into the part.

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