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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
- ?.?
- .author
- Eric Schwartz
- .requirements
- Requires 3 Mb of memory or more.
- .reference
- AmigaLibDisk617:Beach/
- ?.?
- AmigaLibDisk618:Beach/
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- FreshFish-Oct93:Old/AmigaLibDisks/Disks600-619/Disk617/Beach/
- ?.?
- FreshFish-Oct93:Old/AmigaLibDisks/Disks600-619/Disk618/Beach/
- ?.?
- FrozenFish-Apr94:BBS/ALib/d6xx/d617/Beach.lha
- ?.?
- FrozenFish-Apr94:BBS/ALib/d6xx/d618/Beach.lha
- ?.?
- GoldFish1-Apr94:BBS/d6xx/d617/Beach.lha
- ?.?
- GoldFish1-Apr94:BBS/d6xx/d618/Beach.lha
- ?.?
- GoldFish2-Apr94:d6xx/d617/Beach/
- ?.?
- GoldFish2-Apr94:d6xx/d618/Beach/
- ?.?
- .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).
-