Testosteroso is currently working on a new animated music video called "Bambi Sandwich". In the video, It shows the band slaughter some beloved animal icons. Let me start by saying, we do not condone cruelty towards animals, this is meant entirely as a joke. However, I do condone cruelty towards P.E.T.A., and other nut job vegans who give me shit for eating meat. This video is meant to piss those types of people off.
It starts off with a bunch of hippies being thrown into a meat grinder, and then the band grills them up at cookout. The layout of this video is kinda weird. The verse shows an animated sequence describing the exact action of what is being said, and then during the chorus it follows an actual story. Part of the reason we made this song into an animated video as opposed to a live action one is, that the verses were so bizarre that it would be impossible to re-enact what was being sung.
The animation was done using Toon Boom Animate Pro, and the background layout was done in Adobe Photo shop.I recently purchased a book called "Cartoon Animation" by Preston Blair. It shows step by step how to make a traditional animation. I'm trying really hard to avoid techniques that a lot of flash animators use. Most cartoons today are done very similar to the way paper cut-out animation is done. I want this cartoon to look more hand drawn.
Drawing some of the scenes in this video was a bit of a challenge. Luckily I bought a cheap stuffed Bambi doll at the mall, which I referred to whenever I had to draw him at weird angles.
The end sequence came out pretty good. It shows the band dressed as deer hunters, while Bambi runs to safety inside of a cabin.
When he gets inside he sees it's a hunting lodge. The heads of different Disney characters are mounted on the wall, and there is a Winnie the Pooh bear skin rug on the floor.
It is then revealed to him who the real killers of his mother were.
To research somethings for this video, I watched the movie "Bambi". And even though we're making fun of it a little with this video, It still remains the best Disney movie of all time. I forgot how awesome the animation was, and how beautiful some of the scenes were (not to sound like a puss or anything).I wish Disney still made cartoons like that. For updates on this video, be sure to join us on facebook. Or go to www.testosteroso.com
