ABOUT

Recently we decided at morph that it’d be nice to have a strong example of frame by frame traditional animation just to showcase it as a service we can offer (And we can indeed offer it!). The problem is that traditional animation is a much larger time sink than other styles of animation so we’d need to make something short, but still showcasing what we can do. It was suggested to me that we should probably use my comic characters as the basis of the animation. This lead to the idea of making something akin to an 80’s – 90’s cartoon introduction!

Now immediately I was thinking of the introduction sequences from my childhood:Thundercats, Teenage Mutant Ninja (Hero) Turtles, Transformers, Masters of the Universe, etc.

These intro’s usually featured much higher quality animation than the actual cartoon that showed after them, with frame rates being at least 12 frames per second but often upping the frame rate to 24 frames per second. The average cartoon ran at 6-12 frames per second in a lot of cases, so this was often noticeably smoother than the actual show, and often created by a separate team entirely…

Anyway, with this in mind I decided that the animation would have to run at 24fps to capture that really energetic feeling a lot of those intros had.

What I wanted to do was make sure that feeling of Saturday Morning cartoons was captured, and that meant making sure the intro was constantly moving, with little to no downtime until we reveal the title.

Taking inspiration from classic intro’s I decided to go with the opening shot of Galaxia’s Ship (The SinnerStar) warping into shot, before hurtling towards the screen.