Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/03/03/watch-your-face-the-clas.html
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Neat. Haven’t really kept track of what Plympton has been up to since “The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger”.
Seems it’s common to criticize the lack of freshness in The Simpsons, and it would be easy to say the same here considering how closely this hews the original – would throwing in some little touches like beer or donuts be going too far?
I am also readily reminded of “Prank Time”. (This is a little over the top.)
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For all the animation festivals I went to way back when I never saw this one till now.
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Bill Plympton is one of the only animators in history who can claim he animated a feature-length film more or less by himself, and without digital shortcuts. That’s one helluva lot of colored pencils.
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I cannot unsee that.
I will never sleep again.
Many years ago, I was doing work for P&G, and they gave us a healthy budget to do a 30 second online ad. We didn’t exactly have production facilities to use, so I suggested animating it and figured, what the heck, and threw out Bill Plympton’s name. Somehow, a few days later, I was on the phone with my animation hero. We told him the budget and timeframe, and he was like, “Man, for that money, I can draw this spot by myself in a week.” And I totally believe he would have. The spot never happened, but that was my one brush with Bill.
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Oh dear. The moment I saw the mouth move round the face I knew this whole thing was just a new set of extreme examples for @beschizza to muse over and adopt for his Photoshop adventures.
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Wait did Bill Plympton actually animate the Simpsons also? It has his signature at the end…
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I just love this so much.
I remember seeing it at an animation festival, and I’m sure it’s on a collection moldering away in the basement somewhere.
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Definitely – that’s his animation. All colored pencil, done by hand.
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That’s what I was thinking. The original post says it was just “inspired” by him. Credit where credit is due. Ha.
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This makes me happy and sentimental. I remember seeing “Your Face” as a teenager on an arthouse big screen when it debuted in an International Tournee of Animation. The short introduced me to Plympton and I’ve been a lifelong fan ever since, probably seen almost every commercial release he’s produced.
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Here’s a version with a kind of fresh face on it, as it were.
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This is apparently the sixth couch gag that Plympton has animated now according to the Simpsons Wiki.
I haven’t watched them all, but his first one is great:
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I love Bill Plympton. I got to see him at a film festival 4 or 5 years ago for his film Cheatin’. I actually have a frame of animation from Hot Dog. It’s after he puts out a fire and the fireman is kneeling by him. Not shown in the clip below, but it’s from that short.
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At 1:57 in the original:
I’m guessing a young Cyriak watched this and thought ‘Hmm, that’s an idea…’
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I recall the Plympton being included as a demo of the capabilities of Windows 95…
