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Wednesday, June 15th, 2022

Story: Terry-Toons Storyboard by Jim Tyer

Jim Tyer Storyboard

Archive supporter, Wynn Hamonic shared a real treasure with us today. This is a complete storyboard by Terry-Toons’ most unique animator, Jim Tyer. It’s a great batch of drawings. Terry-Toons art is very scarce, and complete storyboards are even scarcer.

Around 1959 Tyer did storyboards for at least three films in the format of Paul Terry’s early Aesop’s Fables cartoons. The first one, “The Tiger King” (1960) was released, the other two were unproduced. This storyboard, titled “Blood is Thicker Than Water” is particularly interesting because it includes both finished panels and roughed out ones. This gives us a chance to examine Tyer’s working process and see how he planned out his compositions. At Terry-Toons, storyboards were done on full sheets of animation paper and attached to the wall by binder clips. You can see Carlo Vinci and Connie Rasinski pitching a board at Terry-Toons in this photo…

Terry Production Process

It appears that Tyer swept through the board quickly with blue pencil first, roughing in the basic compositions and poses. Then he (or his assistant) went back and began to tighten up the drawings in black pencil over the top of his roughs.

Jim Tyer Storyboard

The cartoon was evidently designed for fairly limited animation. It would even have worked well as an animatic in the style of the earliest Crusader Rabbit cartoons. The story is told primarily in voice over narration- see the breakdown of the VO script at the top. Tyer’s amazing expressions and fun designs make the whole thing work beautifully.

I’d like to thank Wynn Hamonic for giving Animation Resources the opportunity to digitize this important piece of Terry-Toons history for our permanent collection. Enjoy the genius of Jim Tyer!

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Stephen Worth
Animation Resources

Animated CartoonsAnimated Cartoons

This posting is part of the online Encyclopedia of Cartooning under the subject heading, Animation.

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Wednesday, April 13th, 2022

Design: Terry-Toons’ Temperamental Lion

Today, we digitized some great Terrytoons model sheets that Carlo Vinci’s family loaned to us…

Terrytoons Model Sheet
Terrytoons Model Sheet
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Terrytoons Model Sheet

This one is particularly interesting to me…

Terrytoons Model Sheet

…because it’s from one of the very best Terrytoons of the time, "The Temperamental Lion". Connie Rasinski created the goofy Bert Lahr lion character as the "King of the Jungle" for the classic cartoon "Doomsday" (1938) as well as "The Nutty Network" (1939). The model was adapted a bit in the late 1940s for "The Lyin’ Lion", a film that includes some funny Jim Tyer animation…

Terrytoons Model Sheet

…but the character was never better animated than he was by Carlo Vinci in this short… Check out his great scene of the lion singing!

Terrytoons Temperamental Lion
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The Temperamental Lion (Terry/1940)
(Quicktime 7 / 14.5 megs)

Many thanks to the Vinci family for sharing their treasures with us!

Stephen Worth
Director
Animation Resources

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This posting is part of the online Encyclopedia of Cartooning under the subject heading, Animation.

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Tuesday, February 1st, 2022

LAST CALL RefPack043: Anime, Terry-Toons, Russian Animation and Chaplin!

THIS REFPACK HAS GONE POOF! A NEW ONE HAS TAKEN ITS PLACE.

Reference Pack

Every other month, Animation Resources shares a new Reference Pack with its members. They consist of an e-book packed with high resolution scans and video downloads set up for still frame study. Make sure you download the Reference Packs before they’re updated. When it’s gone, it’s gone!


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Animation Resources is growing. Since we are a non-profit organization, all of the money we take in from dues gets spent on our projects. So as we get more members, we share more wonderful material with them. Here’s an overview of what you will find in RefPack043…

Tezuka

This time we are featuring experimental films by the father of Japanese manga and anime, Osamu Tezuka. Tezuka made these personal films while he was producing television animation and publishing manga.

Tezuka

The purpose of these films was to allow Tezuka to explore new ideas and techniques with complete freedom. The innovations he came up with in these experimental films ended up enriching his commercial work.

Tezuka

These films helped him lay the groundwork for the limited animation techniques that made television anime possible.

TerryToons

Next up is a pair of cartoons from Terry-Toons. Animation Resources Advisory Board member Steve Stanchfield is responsible for sharing these interesting films with us.

TerryToons

These aren’t the best cartoons ever made, but they include some fantastic scenes animated by Carlo Vinci and Jim Tyer. Check them out and see what you can learn from the masters.


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Mowgli

In the International section, we feature part four of Roman Davydov’s five part series based on Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book…

Gudgeon

…along with an amazing Russian film titled, The Brave Little Gudgeon…

Well Just You Wait

Next up is a new episode of Well, Just You Wait…

Dog Cat And

…and another crazy episode of Dog, Cat And… from Studio Miniatur Filmowych in Poland.

Cyborg 009

The Early Anime section, which is curated by JoJo Baptista, includes two episodes of the rarely seen Japanese TV series, Cyborg 009 from 1968.

Cyborg 009

It has some hilarious limited animation takes and a giant robot monster animated in a very unique style.


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Charlie Chaplin

And that’s not all! In the Slapstick Section, we are continue the three part series that outlines the working methods of Charlie Chaplin.

L Illustration

As a bonus, we feature three an e-book with two complete issues of the most beautiful magazine ever published, L’Illustration Noel.

Weight

Animation Resources Board Member David Eisman presents a series of breakdowns on conveying the feeling of weight in animation.

Animated Discussions Podcast

And Animation Resources’ Director of Programming Davey Jarrell has a new podcast for us! This time, the subject is what animators can learn from live action movies. To go with the podcast, we are rerunning a supplementary documentary on the history of cinematography from a past RefPack.


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Whew! That is an amazing collection of treasures! At Animation Resources, our Advisory Board includes great artists and animators like Ralph Bakshi, Will Finn, J.J. Sedelmaier and Sherm Cohen. They’ve let us know the things that they use in their own self study so we can share them with you. That’s experience you just can’t find anywhere else. The most important information isn’t what you already know… It’s the information you should know about, but don’t know yet. We bring that to you every other month.

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