Walking - Cel Animation In The Real World

July 6, 2007 8:43 AM

Walking is a crazy animation of a character walking around the walls of an art gallery, where each frame of the animation was painted on the walls & then wiped clean for the next frame. Via.
posted by jonson (30 comments total)

Neat. Seeing the people through the door made me realize that people were watching it being drawn and filmed as it was done.
posted by empath at 8:48 AM on July 6, 2007

That musta taken quite a while. Good find.
posted by Happy Dave at 8:51 AM on July 6, 2007

Some of the best art I've ever seen has been the scribbling on the walls in our Art Department at the University. Can't do that so much since they renovated and the building lost a lot of character.
posted by RavinDave at 8:54 AM on July 6, 2007

Great animation technique, done by someone with the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old. "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if a head grew out of his butt? And then someone blows his own head off!"
posted by goatdog at 9:13 AM on July 6, 2007 [4 favorites]

goatdog - I kinda agree, but at the same time it reminded me of Bill Plympton's Your Face, which I really like.
posted by jonson at 9:17 AM on July 6, 2007 [1 favorite]

Good lord. Yet another post that proves I am sooooo lazy.

That was spiffy.
posted by tkchrist at 9:30 AM on July 6, 2007

Agreeing with goatdog here. In fact, it reminded me of an episode of Beavis and Butthead where the two take an art class and accidentally produce a pretty awesome animated short.
posted by bookish at 9:33 AM on July 6, 2007

That was pretty cool. There are some great moments, like the biggest guy all within the window.

Nice find.
posted by OmieWise at 9:52 AM on July 6, 2007

Great animation technique, done by someone with the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old. "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if a head grew out of his butt? And then someone blows his own head off!"

I'm curious how you would have chosen to show the evolution of the figure. This clip actually reminded me of a number of Eastern European illustrators and animators who seem to do a lot of scrambling and evolving of body parts. I'd dig up some examples but I'm supposed to be getting ready for work- you might try looking around in some online Polish poster galleries for a start, if you're interested.
posted by oneirodynia at 9:52 AM on July 6, 2007

Oh and: Thanks, jonson! This was quite enjoyable.
posted by oneirodynia at 9:53 AM on July 6, 2007

Hey, wouldn't it be cool if a head grew out of his butt?

As opposed, perhaps, to talking out of it.
posted by dhartung at 9:54 AM on July 6, 2007 [1 favorite]

I would love to see a video that showed this being made. I'm also curious about the second iteration -- does this mean the artist painting the exact same thing a second time, or did they loop it somehow?
posted by Deathalicious at 10:09 AM on July 6, 2007

The Gaskets [prev on mefi] did a music video doing something similar.
posted by yeti at 10:13 AM on July 6, 2007

I thought is was pretty cool, but pointlessly violent.
posted by oddman at 10:17 AM on July 6, 2007

That was great, jonson. Thanks.

Bookish - that Beavis & Butthead animation was awesome. It didn't even enter my mind that they would do an animation with all the crazy things Beavis rants about (skeletons, fire, bombs, etc), and then there it is! Now I really want to go track that down.
posted by Mister_A at 10:22 AM on July 6, 2007

the art kind of reminded me of Shel Silverstein

(...and one of his poems, 'i lost my head and now it's gone'...or something to that effect)
posted by lester the unlikely at 10:40 AM on July 6, 2007

metafilter: pretty cool, but pointlessly violent.
posted by empath at 10:43 AM on July 6, 2007

excellent stuff, thanks!

assigning an age to their emotional maturity is childish in itself.
posted by Busithoth at 11:09 AM on July 6, 2007

Deathalicious I think we can safely assume it was the same video played twice.
posted by Flashman at 11:20 AM on July 6, 2007

the art kind of reminded me of Shel Silverstein

(...and one of his poems, 'i lost my head and now it's gone'...or something to that effect)

Shel Silverstein, Loser:
Mama said I'd lose my head
If it wasn't fastened on.
Today I guess it wasn't
'Cause while playing with my cousin
It fell off and rolled away
And now its gone.

Loser is the name of the poem, not a snarky comment
posted by misha at 11:25 AM on July 6, 2007

then wiped clean for the next frame.

If you think that's clean, then your house must be a total pigsty.
posted by Dave Faris at 11:59 AM on July 6, 2007

Anyone who thinks that was violent must never have seen a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
posted by Mister_A at 12:36 PM on July 6, 2007

In their vagina.
posted by OmieWise at 12:50 PM on July 6, 2007 [1 favorite]

Haha!
posted by Mister_A at 1:37 PM on July 6, 2007

Mark me down in the "that sucked" column. The animation was garbage, the camera jumped all over. Waste of a good idea.
posted by autodidact at 4:00 PM on July 6, 2007

Awesome. But how do you even think to draw an animation of someone pooping himself out.
posted by The Deej at 7:02 PM on July 6, 2007

How do you NOT? I can't stop the 24 hr a day visions of people exiting their own anuses head first.
posted by jonson at 7:32 PM on July 6, 2007

How do you NOT?

By taking my meds when the doctor says so. :)
posted by The Deej at 7:53 PM on July 6, 2007

I'm pretty sure that is one of the hazards of working in advertising, jonson.
posted by Dave Faris at 6:59 AM on July 7, 2007 [1 favorite]

If I could DOUBLE favorite your last comment, I would, Faris. Touche.
posted by jonson at 7:47 AM on July 7, 2007