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Tom Waits For No One - Animated 1979 ... John Lamb

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Tom Waits and Donna Gordon as the stripper, Performed for us live (at the La Brea stage in Hollywood, 1978), and rotoscoped - a process that traces back the live action frame by frame and turns it into animation. The original live action was shot with 5 cameras - 2 high, 2 low and one hand held. The music from "The One That Got Away" blared in the background as Tom sang karaoke style different lyrics on each take. Two strippers, Donna Gordon was the choice, 6 takes and 13 hours of video footage were edited to make a 5 1/2 minute live action short which we turned into animation. A total of 5,500 frames were caricatured and then re-drawn, inked by Mike Cressy and painted by hand onto celluloid acitate to produce this film. Produced by Lyon Lamb, directed by John Lamb, the film bore some cool new technology, talent ( David Silverman, producer and director of the Simpsons TV series, and director of the NEW Simpsons movie to be released in July of 2007, was our head animator and also his FIRST job as an animator) and was created specifically for a video music market that didn't yet exist . But the buzz was out and we went on to create what arguably may be the first music video created for the new and upcoming MTV market. A series of unfortunate events prohibited the film from ever being released or sold commercially, consequently catapulting it into obscurity... until now,thanks You Tube! In 1979, an Academy Award was presented to Lyon Lamb for the technology used in this short. The production materials (character sketches, layouts, storyboards, animation drawings and cels) are still amazingly intact and held in private hands. However, a few of the production elements managed to slip away over the last 28 years and occasionally, one of these rare gems can be found on ebay. To learn more about this amazing lost film, go to ....TomWaitsLibrary.com and Wikipedia.

Channel: Music
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: austinstein

Length: 06:22
Rating: 4.75
Views: 299100

Tags: Animation  DonnaGordon  JohnLamb  Rotoscope  TomWaits  

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chungafrescor (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Qué bueno que está, qué bueno que está, que bueno que está!
uberzwitter (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I guess his voice is an aquired taste. I love rotoscoping but I couldn't stand getting through this video because of his voice. I guess I don't like the man's work much either. I could see how other's could, don't get me wrong, but it's not for everyone.
budalo (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
is tom waits emo?
Tabla461 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
isnt this song called 'the one that got away'?
Venix946 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Define style, elegance and brilliance with a name... Tom Waits
BuzzcockX (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
perfect animation! look how waits is moving
ragnorakk (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Typically speaking though, most people generally understand what they are watching at Youtube.
sygo7g (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I've learned to accept questions like these nowadays. Places like YouTube have made these works more prone to questions from a public that might not understand certain artistic or esthetic concepts and so-forth.
1aundulxaldin (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Correction, his voice is like somebody who's probably been on a steady diet of Nail Juice, onions, and Angel's Wings scraped OFF a bed of spikes.
FilmTraum7 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I cant get enough of his voice!

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