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As Brian commented, it’s a really masterful example of leading the viewer’s eye so that as soon as one thing stops moving, another starts. It perfectly fits the subject of a magician’s act, as we all know how they distract and lead the audience’s eyes to pull off their tricks!

We all have sought more snap in our animation at one time or another. My thanks to the Presto team for showing us how it can be done.

Then the story and animation kicked in and it became clear we were not trying to push the envelope, but rediscover our roots. Bravo to finding the soul of classic Looney Tunes and getting to the heart of animation!

For all the positives of 3d, often it has lacked the motion and natural feel of the great hand drawn features. In this short, you’ve clearly found it! Looking forward to see where you go from here!

It’s great that you talk about snappy animation. I’m an animator who is afraid of snappy movements, I’ve never done it before and I know its a sweet spice missing my my recipe.

Thanks for the great info.

One big thing that jumps out is just how much motion blur is used. Did you have much control over that as an animator or did you have to plan knowing it would be done afterwards? Were the transitions between poses working before the motion blur? Some of the moves are sooo fast I would think without it, the movements wouldn’t flow right. Makes me think back to some of John K’s posts about the dry brush technique and how careful crafting the smears inbetween helped sell the movement and transitions.

Once again, really fantastic work. Keep raising that bar!

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Cheers,

Mat.