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Tom Waits For No One - Animated 1979 ... John Lamb

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Tom Waits and Donna Gordon as the stripper,Performed for us live (at the La Brea stage in Hollywood, 1978), and rotoscoped - a process that traces back the live action frame by frame and turns it into animation. The original live action was shot with 5 cameras - 2 high, 2 low and one hand held. The music from "The One That Got Away" blared in the background as Tom sang karaoke style different lyrics on eachtake. Two strippers, Donna Gordon was the choice, 6 takes and 13 hours of video footage were edited to make a 5 1/2 minute live action short which we turned into animation. A total of 5,500 frames were caricatured and then re-drawn, inked by Mike Cressy and painted by hand onto celluloid acitate to produce this film. Produced by Lyon Lamb, directed by John Lamb, the film bore some cool new technology, talent ( David Silverman, producer and director of the Simpsons TV series, and director of the NEW Simpsons movie to be released in July of 2007, was our head animator and also his FIRST job as an animator) and was created specifically for a video music market that didn't yet exist . Butthe buzz was out and we went on to create what arguably may be the first music video created for the new and upcoming MTV market.A series of unfortunate events prohibited the film from ever being released or sold commercially, consequently catapulting it into obscurity... until now,thanks You Tube! In 1979, an Academy Award was presented to Lyon Lamb for the technology used in this short.The production materials (character sketches, layouts, storyboards, animation drawings and cels) are still amazingly intact and held in private hands. However, a few of the production elements managed to slip away over the last 28 years and occasionally, one of these rare gems can be found on ebay. To learn more about this amazing lost film, go to ....TomWaitsLibrary.com and Wikipedia.

Channel: Music
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: austinstein

Length: 06:22
Rating: 4.75
Views: 294394

Tags: Animation  DonnaGordon  JohnLamb  Rotoscope  TomWaits  

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ragnorakk (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Typically speaking though, most people generally understand what they are watching at Youtube.
sygo7g (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I've learned to accept questions like these nowadays. Places like YouTube have made these works more prone to questions from a public that might not understand certain artistic or esthetic concepts and so-forth.
1aundulxaldin (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Correction, his voice is like somebody who's probably been on a steady diet of Nail Juice, onions, and Angel's Wings scraped OFF a bed of spikes.
FilmTraum7 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I cant get enough of his voice!
julyuki (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
out of sync?
cleurent (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
does anhyone have msn!!! msg me my msn live id is jane21dame k
Zinkster94 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
F-New York - MSG me on MSN. ID is in my profile. I
reesey1029 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
sweet
sethtwc (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
yay rotoscoping
emilydeboer (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
hay there it is tom what r u up too

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