Folks,
I’m not even kidding.
Yesterday I decided to change the alarm tone on my phone.
For YEARS, I’ve woke up to the theme tune from “Happy Days” but I was sick of it so I changed it.
Í’ve just went onto the BBC News site today to find THIS!:
I’m never changing my ringtones EVER AGAIN.
I loved Tom Bosley!
Read the full article HERE.
I was watching “Thundercats” the other day and reliving my youth a wee bit and was surprised at how good it still is.
No seriously it is!
I was thinking about all the effort that got put into cartoons in the 80’s.
The time it must have taken to draw a single episode etc…
It’s all up there on the screen and it looks good.
Big long flashy colourful animated opening credits,
Big matte painted background scenery and a big 80’s theme tune with loads of whamy bar guitars on it!
That’ll do for me!
“Thundercats” came out when?
1982?
Long before CGI took over the entire world and fucked it,
I used to wonder how animators and artists made things look shiny and sparkly.
Things like lightning and twinkles on metal.
It never looked like it was just painted or just drawn.
Know what I mean?
How was that done?
I still don’t understand it really…
Here’s some screen shots incase you’re wondering what the hell I’m talking about:
It’s the same with Jessica Rabbit’s dress in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”
How did they make that sparkle?
Someone once told me that the film was physically scratched into by hand to create the sparkle on that dress but know what?
I don’t think I believe that.
Remember that song “Follow The Yellow Brick Road” from “The Wizard Of Oz”?
“Follow the yellow brick road.
Follow the yellow brick road.
Follow, follow, follow, follow,
Follow the yellow brick road”.
Well,
Every time I walk into a library,
That song plays in my head on a loop.
Except the lyrics are different.
“Borrow and never give back.
Borrow and never give back.
Borrow, borrow, borrow, borrow,
Borrow and never give back”.
And folks,
That’s why to this day,
I can’t get a library card in the whole district of Lanarkshire.
Y’see,
Sometime around the early 1990’s I borrowed and never gave back a book called:
“A Nasty Piece of Work: The Art & Graft of Spitting Image”.
I fucking loved that book.
It detailed the sketches, technique, concepts and work that went into the satirical 1980’s puppet T.V. show “Spitting Image” by illustrator Roger Law:
Anyways,
One day the book fell apart in my hands and the last I saw of it,
The pages got blown all the way up Stewart Street in Bellshill.
That book is long gone out of print now and I’ve been looking all over the internet for some of the pictures from the book.
I found nothing.
But!
I did find a mint copy of the book on http://www.abebooks.co.uk/ and bought it straight away.
Here are some photos of the puppets from the book:
The Unravelling Of Al Cook... 