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.name
ADayAtTheBeach
.type
Animation
.aminet-dir
gfx/anim
.short
Animation of Flip the Frog at the beach.
.description
Four and a half minutes of animation of Flip the Frog at the beach.
Flip was created around 1931 by animator Ub Iwerks. Iwerks was
originally a friend and partner with Walt Disney in their fledgeling
cartoon studio. Ub designed the original Mickey Mouse and animated the
first few Mickey short cartoons almost single-handed. Iwerks was the
skilled draftsman and animator, while Disney wrote and directed.
Around 1930/31, a producer named Pat Powers offered Iwerks the chance
to have his own studio and he Accepted. The cartoons Iwerks created
Powers would distribute to MGM. Iwerks' first character was Flip the
Frog, and flip's debut was in a VERY early 1931 two strip color(three
strips are needed for a full spectrum) cartoon called Fiddlesticks. In
this cartoon Flip resembled a real frog. after a couple cartoons, the
producer urged Iwerks to redesign Flip into something "cuter". In the
process Flip gained a hat, gloves, shoes and shorts, making him look a
lot less like a frog and more like Mickey Mouse with the ears and
black nose ripped off.
Flip the Frog cartoons, and Iwerks' cartoons in genenal, did not have
much success because Iwerks lacked the inventiveness and storytelling
ability to match his abilities as artist and animator. (The reverse
could be said about Walt Disney, which is why the two made a very good
team).
In 1933, Flip the Frog was abandoned for the character Willie Whopper.
several years after that, the Powers/Iwerks studio shut down
completely. Iwerks went back to Disney, and became a sort of
mechanical engineer, pioneering the process of xeroxing pencil
drawings onto clear cels (to make the animation process quicker and
cheaper). Flip the Frog and the Iwerks studio were almost completely
forgotten, except to animation historians. --- -- Until..
In the year 1990, Eric Schwartz attended a presentation of old cartoon
shorts at the Columbus College of Art and Design, wher he attends
classes. One of the Cartoons shown was a Flip the Frog cartoon, "Room
Runners", which impressed Schwartz with its good animation and
surprising amount of sexual jokes for a 1930's cartoon. Eric Began to
storyboard his own Flip the Frog Cartoon. He originally intended to
copy 'Room Runners' but switched to his own storyline. Flip was
redesigned, stylised, and modernized (he also looks something like a
frog).
Using the Amiga computer as his medium, Schwartz brought Flip the Frog
back to the world. Flip has appeared in two modern cartoons so far;
'The Dating Game'in 1991 and 'A Day at the Beach'in 1992. More
cartoons are planned, for an as yet undetermined date.
.version
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.author
Eric Schwartz
.requirements
Requires 3 Mb of memory or more.
.reference
AmigaLibDisk617:Beach/
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AmigaLibDisk618:Beach/
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FreshFish-Oct93:Old/AmigaLibDisks/Disks600-619/Disk617/Beach/
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FreshFish-Oct93:Old/AmigaLibDisks/Disks600-619/Disk618/Beach/
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FrozenFish-Apr94:BBS/ALib/d6xx/d617/Beach.lha
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FrozenFish-Apr94:BBS/ALib/d6xx/d618/Beach.lha
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GoldFish1-Apr94:BBS/d6xx/d617/Beach.lha
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GoldFish1-Apr94:BBS/d6xx/d618/Beach.lha
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GoldFish2-Apr94:d6xx/d617/Beach/
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GoldFish2-Apr94:d6xx/d618/Beach/
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.distribution
Shareware
.address
E.S. Productions
P.O. Box 292684
Kettering. OH 45429-0684
U.S.A.
.docs
ADB.ReadMe
.described-by
Fred Fish (fnf@amigalib.com)
.submittal
Downloaded via ftp from aminet (wuarchive.wustl.edu).