Disney short designed and directed by the crazy genius Ward Kimball, featuring loads of great characters playing instruments in interesting ways. JM

Customizable Rig

http://journal.joshburton.com/2010/10/morpheus-release-candidate-v2.html

This is meant to be an easy to customize rig

its not the final version but people have already been doing 11 second club and stuff with it


-aa

Rockstar Rig

http://animationbuffet.blogspot.com/2008/12/rockstar.html
Just in case if we do go for something a bit rocky here is a rockstar rig

-aa

Lots of free Rigs

Here is a giant collection of free rigs. There might be some that we can use for the band stuff in here

http://animationbuffet.blogspot.com/

:P


-aa

Colour Script tests

Without too much focus on character design I just set out to enjoy playing around with colour, texture and atmosphere and will hopefully start a process of roughing out lots of characters and styles... it's a start!

Click them to enlarge & see properly like. 
 - JS

And some more Sax ref, poses and styles from a bit of research (I didn't draw these).

Pixar's One Man Band

This was actually never one of my faves as Pixar shorts go, mainly as I wasn't overly keen on the styling, but it has some great examples of characters playing multiple instruments and is worth seeing again.

Hop Teaser (Cheers Alex!) - Rabbit setting up and playing drums

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If you like the 50s De Phazz cover, you might like the opening titles to 'Catch Me If You Can', done by the guys at Nexus Productions. I love it, personally.



Also, check out the Simpson's spoof version:



And Disney's take on the style (well, kinda):



- JM

Nice De Phazz graphic cover art

I really like the graphic 50's/60's modernist style of this cover art.

- JS

Summary!

Okay, the ball is rolling nicely now and we have some good ideas going into the hat. The Cubes animation's with Chris and will pass on to someone else... next week? ; )

The idea of animating a band is really taking shape, it works on a number of levels;

• No immediate need for a narrative / storyline
• Each of us could take ownership of a character
• Great collective goal; it's something that'd be hard to achieve individually. 
• The focus can be almost entirely on character design and animation from the outset if we use an easy-rig system

With this in mind, it would be great to start adding stuff here and taggin it 'band' in the labels.

I'm going to start off with these links:
The muppets had a great band called Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. Each character had real personality and individuality, many based on famous musicians. Their instruments and the way they played them were very much an extension of their character.

Regardless of the  direction we take with style, this is a great formula. The more I've read tonight, the clearer it is to appreciate just how much effort went into investing a personality and soul in each character - there are links to band members below these images.

And a musical number...



The Band by Character.

• Dr. Teeth (Vocal / Piano)
• Zoot (Sax)
• Janice (Guitar / Vocal)
• Rowlf (Piano / Vocal)
• Animal (Drums)
• Floyd Pepper (Bass)

And more info here on the Muppet Wiki!

Band Reference!

Keyboard





Drums



- (added by james!)
Dave Grohl plays a kids drum set:


- Original Post, AA. Thanks!

Random idea.

Premise:
A timid old woman secretly wants to experience what it's like to be in a fight.
Takes place at a Roller Derby.

 

-JM

JCB song

I know this's 2D but that's something special about it:)
-yaw

Pocoyo

Love the way the duck and main character move in this.
Also its very simple just a white background and a couple fun characters!

-AA

Marco Plays Ball & other shorts

Very simple idea, with some great bold colour choices and distinctive style. JS



Love the very strong stylization here in the character and environment



And check out Poor Bogo - I like the idea of the dialogue leading the animation through the kid's imagination and the tired father wanting to go to bed.

Animation & live action footage

I've always wanted to try merging animation with live action footage...






- JM

Creature Combat IV: Cat vs Mouse

I liked this lo-fi animation, made in 4 days.

Link to Cartoon Brew post here

JS

22 Short films about Springfield

How about something like this, similar to Ricky's suggestion last week. One short broken down into smaller movies that are all connected:



(Taken from Simpsons Season 7, episode 22)
- JM

Ice breaker

As nobody has put anything here I thought I'd put some words I like in no particular order;

Bulbous, paraffin, cyclopean, zazz, razamatazz, blammymataz, smink, spork, creamy, tubular, crinkle, encrusted, spatula, soupy.

Welcome!

Morning all. Here's a place to post stuff, anything at all!

So that we can all find stuff easily just include the following labels on your posts (with any other labels you want to):

inspiration
ideas
tutorials