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suzie: Busting on Snopes: A Plea for Intellectual Honesty

nospam@example.com (suzie) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:59:32 -0700

I think it’s because if you notice in the first frame you posted he is on his tippy-toes, hence the longer leg position.. :~~) just my take on it :~~)

jer: Busting on Snopes: A Plea for Intellectual Honesty

nospam@example.com (jer) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:18:20 -0800

I’m actually not sure… I’m not as up on my WB toons as I used to be

Will: Busting on Snopes: A Plea for Intellectual Honesty

nospam@example.com (Will) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:48:15 -0800

Bravo Jer! Great, thorough work as usual.

Is that Elmer Fudd or the Shmoo?

greatbiggary: Busting on Snopes: A Plea for Intellectual Honesty

nospam@example.com (greatbiggary) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:22:49 -0800

I’d like to chime in as a guy who went to animation school, and had to do a bunch of traditional animation. Even with my own characters, from my own character sheets, doing my own actions, I quite often couldn’t tell what I was looking at after an hour or two of animating diligently over a light table. I’d think “What is this line? What am I doing? Is this part of the desk behind him?” Then I’d scroll back through pages and pages, watching as things moved. Often that would clear it right up, but almost as often, I’d just accept that a rogue line got in there (after all – they’re not in color in the beginning, and it’s all just lines on lines), and either erase it, and see how it looked riffling through the pages again, or leave it, and figure no one would care. Cheats like what you mentioned, to fix the height of legs ran rampant in my class, and a lot of times we’d slow-mo through people’s work during critiques, and people would say, e.g. “you know that vase just disappeared for 5 frames?” or “he keeps getting fatter as the animation progresses,” to which we would respond “Whoops!” or similar :)

Kids snuck things in, too, however, so that can never be fully discredited, but this one seems pretty obviously a last-minute fix to the too-short leg problem.

Enceladus: Busting on Snopes: A Plea for Intellectual Honesty

nospam@example.com (Enceladus) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:22:44 -0800

Too much time, you internet nerd!!!eleventy

Seriously though, I’m in the ‘poorly drawn legs’ camp. I know these cartoons were made primarily for adults when they were first released but I’d like to think the minds behind them had a touch more sophistication to their humor.

Greg: Busting on Snopes: A Plea for Intellectual Honesty

nospam@example.com (Greg) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:54:55 -0800

Wow, that is weird. It sure does seem to pop out when you watch the video. Whether it’s a penis or a negative crotch space, either way, it isn’t drawn very well. Looking at the screen cap I was hoping it would be some kind of knotted part of the towel, but it’s hard to see how that could be in the video.

On a side note, I hereby put a curse on the head of anyone who makes a comment along the lines of “you have too much time on your hands”. Shut up already with that inane internet mantra. Doing creative and amusing stuff like this is more interesting than 99% of what most humans are doing.