Jack The Bird


I’ve started working on Jack The Bird cartoon. This here is a little snippet of when Jack the bird turns into Jacko.
I had a great time playing and recording the music. I stuck the tempo to 180 BPM like the old days so the beat falls on every 8 frames.
That’s an old Tom and Jerry trick.
It helps way more with timing and also you know that hits are going to be on certain beats. I also had heaps of fun animating it.
It took me about 3 lazy days to storyboard... as it took a while to find the scenes in my imagination but when it all came together I animated the whole thing in 3 days.

Here is the animatic for it: