April 28, 2004
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Half-Baked Doughboy!
and other relicsWe’re finding lots of old project ideas as we clean the studio, filter through and clear out the files on our computers. We had forgotten that half this stuff even existed! For example – (click on images to enlarge) -
Half-Baked Doughboy Gets Laid (1999) - I think the text and pictures speak for themselves. Eddie wrote the story, I sculpted the Half-Baked Doughboy and designed the Lady. There’s also a storyboard somewhere … Not sure where it’s gone… and a DAT tape recording of the Lady’s dialogue (performed by my friend Goretti).
SYNOPSIS
Half-Baked Doughboy Gets Laid is a rites of passage story. In a seedy motel room, our half-baked hero ‘entertains’ a larger than life lady, who bites off more than she bargained for, but ends up liking what she chews. The visuals and storyline revolve around the passive pastry boy, and his reactions to the striptease and seduction he is being subjected to.
TECHNIQUE
Half-Baked Doughboy Gets Laid will be a combination of 2D and 3D stop-motion animation. The character of Half-Baked Doughboy will be modeled in clay. The animation will be filmed digitally before being imported into Adobe Photoshop, where it will be digitally coloured and enhanced.
Doughboy’s lady will be animated via traditional 2D methods. The roughness and construction lines of the original animation drawings will be allowed to remain in the final animation for a fresh natural look that accentuates the character’s physical attributes.
Backgrounds will be 2D, with sketchy, yet very detailed watercolour feel that will convey the ‘seedy motel’ as part of the production.All dialogue will be in Spanish with English subtitles.
The accompanying music will be a sultry mix of Bossa Nova rhythms.
Sketches by Lili (1999)Half-Baked Doughboy Gets Laid was going to be our very first indie stop-motion experimental project but nothing eventuated beyond the storyboards stage.The Doughboy figure is still sitting in a cardboard box at the back of our studio fridge…
Eddie: I forgot it was in the fridge! Maybe we should retitle it “Half Baked Doughboy Gets Mould”.
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Twisted Telly (2000) was our first Flash “job”. We were both working at Fudge Puppy Productions at the time. Between Eddie and myself (who designed and animated the whole thing) and Andrew Maunsell (who hand-painted the bgs) we produced a bunch of these Flash promos for Nickelodeon Australia’s ‘Twisted Telly’ block.
‘Octoboy’
All art © Nickleodeon
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Day of the Dead Musicians (1998) I animated this scene for fun when working at Fudge Puppy as a Clean-Up Artist. It was never finished and unfortunately, I don’t have the source animation anymore. All that remains is this one image…
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Bubble Queen (1994) was produced by Eddie after-hours, when he was working as a layout artist/designer at RKA. Eddie tells me he animated, hand-painted and shot every single cel of Bubble Queen himself. …thank goodness computers came along! These are scanned cels -
Bubble Queen and her boyfriend
Bubble Queen’s mouseplay
All art ©1995 Eddie Mort*******************************************************
Geek Love character sketches (1996?) Geek Love is one of my favourite books and I think at the time I had just seen Rooty Toot Toot (one of my favourite animated films). It’s such a demented bittersweet tale about a family of sideshow freaks. I read somewhere that Tim Burton has acquired the movie rights… it will be interesting.
All art ©1996 Lili Chin
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Two other short cartoons by Eddie, which unfortunately he no longer has the source animation for, are: Big Daddy Roth (1995) and El Domingo Sangrante (1995). We only managed to find a couple of line drawings and cels.
Big Daddy Roth (animation drawing)
These are scanned cels from El Domingo Sangrante
Eddie: It’s a spider who’s into women’s underwear.
And some sardines in condoms.©1995 Eddie Mort
Comments (3)
I just have a feeling that Half-Baked Doughboy’s story just doesn’t have a happy ending for him.
Poor little Half-Baked Doughboy… *pats Half-Baked Doughboy on the head*
You’re right
[heh] My first foray into stop-action involved the Pillsbury Doughboy being kidnapped by a giant hand, rolled out, and baked into a fruit turnover.Love those Rat Pfink cels!