John K. Animated Short Shows Furries in Love

Animation legend John Kricfalusi (Ren & Stimpy) takes us inside the world of Furry romance in this short made for Adult Swim.

In this Furries short I wanted to see how to do wall to wall dialogue like how most modern cartoons in primetime are done. The only wall to wall dialogue cartoons that ever really inspired me though were Fred Crippen's Roger Ramjet. I always liked the funny cutting and quick camera moves and wanted to try something like that myself.

Hence the fast cuts and silly camera moves in this. I also like early limited animation where parts of the character are held and other parts move. Only they usually try to hide that contrast by making the movement very slight or non descript. I thought I would instead do the opposite. I made what moved be goofy to contrast against the frozen parts.

John K. Smurfs it to the Man

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John Kricfalusi, of Ren and Stimpy fame, was even subversive back in the '80s when he toiled on The Smurfs. Of course, as anyone who has seen the CGI film can attest, The Smurfs are much better off now that they've been stripped of all that, whaddyacallit - humor.

/sarcasm.

For more Ren and Stimpy-related awesomeness, check out a vintage Billy West radio sketch over at Robot Mutant.