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[link]Here's John K explaining this whole masterpiece! -->
[link]I was a clean-up artist, in-between animator, even a layout artist for characters and backgrounds! I cleaned up a lot of scenes and learned so much from this process!
I am so proud of everyone who was a part of this!
Please show your support!
This looks brilliant
The camera movements at times were pretty choppy, specifically the scene where Slab and Ernie are punching the nerd's gut. It just cut in and out of the scene sporadically. It didn't help much when scenes with character animation had the camera jerking around all over the place. Some of the tweens were haphazard as well. The scenes where the rat is..."walking" (or sliding) towards the nerd and the nerd jumping in excitement were distracting. I'm not sure if John K intended for it to look like that, but it's something that definitely caught my eye. I also noticed in the scene when the nerd puts the bag over his head, a couple of animator notes popped up on the screen (one when he was breathing with the bag on and another when the rat was crawling out of the sewer).
Since this was a group effort, I'm not blaming you for every detail I found wrong with the commercial. At the same time, I don't hate the commercial either. Working for John K. must be a honor and I'm positive everyone involved in production put tons of labor into this. It's a funny, enjoyable little cartoon and I'm just pointing out some details that I feel could make it even better. Just my two cents.
Just take a look at his early flash cartoons The Goddamn George Liquor cartoons and compare that with his Tenacious D cartoon "Classico". Such a huge difference after a lot of practice.
Oh yeah the notes... That was an accident.
We'll do better next time for sure~