beetlejuice

aww what the hell, first thing that popped into my head so might as well. its a cartoon/movie that i've been studying, well better described as pondering. i love the kind of humor associated with this series, and the animation for the cartoon is top notch, which is kinda what i've been studying. im interested in animation, might even try studying it in collage, so i've been watching the cartoons carefully, trying to pick up the subtleties of expressions and movement that this show has in droves, often pausing the show to observe individual panels and see the "in betweens" of a movement, how they do the lighting, where they place the characters in the shot, what parts move or stay because sometimes it might only be an arm or mouth that moves or the eyes might blink, but the movement still seems fluid and natural. its really something to actually take a careful look at these old cartoons, but dont try it with most of the newer ones. most new cartoons are now animated digitally, making the characters much more static, i think that it might be because they can re-use old artwork much more easily when done digitally, keep things more carefully measured so theres not as much changes between the panels, as well as blend them together, and you lose alot of the movement blur that would have been there otherwise because of how sharp the images are. plus more modern cartoons just aren't as crazy as the older ones, especially beetlejuice. in the cartoon, he's a ghost, so he's also very good at shape shifting, which he does almost all the time, and leads to some pretty visually stunning moments.