Forgot to say: thereās not much of a story there, but I had fun with the little mysteries.
Why identical triplets? Theyāre sure as hell not saving the animator any work.
Who killed Eeyore and why?
Did they just sit down on thin air, like in that āwhatās wrong with this pictureā thread?
I wouldnāt mind seeing some more videos set in this world, extended universe-style.
What Iām saying that they got a great strobe effect using a low frame rate that is perfectly synced with the music. A good example is the shot where the Zebra waitress first walks past the door when the cats come into the stripclub.
Itās gorgeous and sumptuous, but a high frame rate it has not.
Which is weird because some of the scenes have higher frame rate tweeningā¦ maybe they couldnāt find a decent solution between the rotoscoped keyframes?
It seems intentional to me. The low frame-rate strobe happens before the drop, Iām guessing to emphasize the beat visually while the 4x4 has stopped.
Also, Youtube doesnāt do variable framerates, so Iām guessing this was originally produced with multiple framerates and they had to lock the output to 30fps when it was exported for upload, which means they probably needed to have some kind of frame interpolation and that can get nastyā¦
Although really, Iām not a video production guy. Iām a codec and formats guy.
Also, Iād like to take a moment to gush over the choice of the Croc guys. Itās likeā¦ The perfect species for getting across lecherous ogling. Also theyāre wearing Izod Lacoste shirts, which is a great little detail.
Strobe? Thereās no flashing light so I guess you mean the tweening frame rateā¦ which I guess is in keeping with an element of the beatā¦ sometimes, maybe.
Iām watching it again with this in mind but I think perhaps the frame rate drop and increase from shot to shot within the same sequence is supposed to be slow-motion?
But even then there are shots within sequences which go from about 8-10 fps to 12-16 fps and then all the way up to about 24 fps without really implying slow motion. I think they just concentrated on the most visually arresting shots for higher tweened frame rates, like the first cat on dog attackā¦ there are even shots where the blood spurts are tweened at a high frame rate (18-24 ish fps) whilst the underlying layer of the booth dancer is tweened more slowly (at about 8-12 fps).
I donāt know if Iām just being super picky, like I said the animation is gorgeous overall but I feel like even for slow motion shots, a higher frame rate actually accentuates the slow motion aspect, rather than detracting from itā¦ which is what I see here.
Mind you, Iām just getting back into mocha tracking in order to do a rotoscoping project and all I can see in the world is tweened movementā¦ d_d
Hey, yeah. Thatās an interesting one. Reminds me of anime techniques where a face might be animated at 8fps or so, while a moving car in the same shot moves along at the regular 24fps. Good catch.
Exactly. The whole thing is well done enough that it just works (for me) despite what could be a classic Hanna-Barbera ājust make it worse, no one will knowā low budget trick.
Same goes for the copy-pasted duplicate characters. And the obvious, low-fi rotoscoping.
Great animation! Just as you say, not my favourite Caravan Palace track, but what a presentation. They do do good videos.
I love ruminating on that sort of thing. A French swing group using three-part vocal harmony: if I was animating them, it would be difficult not to think of triplets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-KChYBFiB0.
[Fun Chomet Fact: 45 minutes into that film, we catch a glimpse of a toilet bowl with a turd shaped like Mickey Mouseās head floating in it.]
