Nick and Will - Ice Bucket Challenge

[Hentron]

Hey everybody, here's out latest. It's a short one!

[jahnocli]

Looks like that head wound needs some ice. Uh oh...

[Hentron]

Looks like that head wound needs some ice. Uh oh...

That's really, really funny. I wish we'd thought of it.

[Pinesal]

Looks like that head wound needs some ice. Uh oh...

Yes, that was actually really funny. Maybe we should run our cartoons by our fellow forum patrons before publishing them so we can steal their great ideas.

[drichird]

Very funny. I still remember watching your other one "Independence Day" a few months ago, so for me your humor must be hitting home! It does here as well, good job. Especially his expressions after the ice in the stomach, and then how he falls down after getting hit with bucket. The sound of the fly at the end was a crowning touch. very nicely done.

Small nit... the way Will's mouth moves in the very beginning, it almost looks like his lips are shivering from cold (holding the ice?), is that the effect you are wanting? If so sorry for letting that go right over my heard first time I watched, and not sure how you'd do it differently cuz I know it's hard to lypsync with photos but it stands out a little too much for me, just a small nitpick! You are clearly developing a very cool and humorous photo-animation style, keep up the great work!

[Pinesal]

Very funny. I still remember watching your other one "Independence Day" a few months ago, so for me your humor must be hitting home! It does here as well, good job. Especially his expressions after the ice in the stomach, and then how he falls down after getting hit with bucket. The sound of the fly at the end was a crowning touch. very nicely done.

Small nit... the way Will's mouth moves in the very beginning, it almost looks like his lips are shivering from cold (holding the ice?), is that the effect you are wanting? If so sorry for letting that go right over my heard first time I watched, and not sure how you'd do it differently cuz I know it's hard to lypsync with photos but it stands out a little too much for me, just a small nitpick! You are clearly developing a very cool and humorous photo-animation style, keep up the great work!

Thanks for the kind words. Don't forget to watch the "Bologna or Not" cartoon we made last week

About the lips, I believe that is a side affect of the somewhat lazy way we handle lip syncing. I don't think there is much we can do without manually switching layers at each syllable.

[Hentron]

It wasn't lazy, it was neglect, we were testing multiple audio/layer switching and forgot to correct it. The Nick one would look bad too, if it was a case of lazy. I thought something looked off, but couldn't put my finger on it until now.

[Pinesal]

It wasn't lazy, it was neglect, we were testing multiple audio/layer switching and forgot to correct it. The Nick one would look bad too, if it was a case of lazy. I thought something looked off, but couldn't put my finger on it until now.

No, this has nothing to do with the multiple audio thing. It's because of our weird part open/open layering thing that we do.

P. S. Will might have too many mouths.

[Little Yamori]

Awesome, I busted up. I'm up late and had to hold back from laughing too loud so as not to wake the family. Too funny, great job on the mid-air spin. (my only nit pick would be the white outline on Will's head right up front, didn't know if it was for cut-out style, I hadn't noticed it in your guys' other work).

Congrats

[Danimal]

Do to my disdain for this challenge and all the awfulness it encompasses, I nearly didn't watch this. But then I thought "Nick & Will? Of course I'm going to watch it!" Glad I did, it was great. Loved the spin in the air.