See, if this was the old Star Trek Saturday morning cartoon show, the people in the bottom three panels would be reversed.
Any of you guys remember that? In order to save on animation, they’d have the person speaking with the back of their heads to the viewer, so that you saw, face on, the immobile features of the person they were speaking to. Clever huh? If Leonard Nimoy was saying his Spock lines, you’d see the back of Spock’s head and Kirk’s face, blankly listening. No… animation… involved… in… the… animated… show.
But Hubris isn’t animated, so you get to see the artist guy’s face as he talks. It’s obvious he does REAL art, and not cartooning, ’cause he can afford FIVE layers of shirts and jackets. Everyone knows cartoonists wander the streets in only four layers. And cardboard shoes.
P.S. I did NOT misspell ‘Pyranha’. It’s a British company. They spell it that way.
[Added note. I was going to put a Star Trek Animated Series clip here, showing what I was talking about. I can’t find one. I don’t THINK I imagined that whole thing about the facing away.]
Oh yeah they did that in the animated.
Meantime, looks like clientele as usual… last one thinks his art is worth something. Heh. Other two are just typical. Where’s the one that needs the limited edition whatever and can only pay $5 for it and are perturbed a) you don’t have one in stock and b) won’t get a $985 one off ebay and resell it for $5.
Lip synching is expensive. Which is why “Clutch Cargo” style animation, with the superimposed live-action mouth, is the way to go.
ST probably blew their budget on the voice actors
Clutch Cargo used to give me the creeps when I was a kid. Starved for cartoons all week, and then shown one you couldn’t stay in the room with. That was just cruel.
I also liked the British Thunderbird with the fibreglass puppets. Marrionnettes. Looked at a Clutch Cargo last week, and several of the mouths looked like they’re talking through gritted teeth.
Gerry Anderson’s classic!!!!! Real hands to do things as making it happen in marionette was so hard…
at this point…I am tempted to tell Niky “WELCOME TO THE FAMILY!”. hehe.
yeah i had my share of nuts in retail, people like that and worse. So i guess now she needs her chocolate box and complimentary prozac lol
Prozac, burr… recently found the bottle from 2000 (bottle emptied) that caused me the worst case of hives I have ever had. 4 days, and 5 days of prednisone and sleeping (thank the doc to this day for the “sleep” meds). Nikki doesn’t deserve that kind of “welcome to the family” she has enough on her plate.
Nikki and the Really Crazy Day. In limited Cravenation!
Yeeeah, Clutch Cargo was uncanny valley before it was a thing. Unpleasant.
Greg … they DID animate the lips.
https://youtu.be/VVpRv6rC8RY?t=3m44s
Well, they HAD to sometimes, but I’m sure I remember the other trick being used, too.
Or having the character put a hand to their face…
Oy Sheboygan… talk about weird winning the day. I think the panel four customer may be the weirdest — or at least weirdest-looking — character who has appeared so far. And that in a strip where there’s stiff competition in the weird quotient sweepstakes.
“Piranha” is spelled with an I in both the UK AND the US.
And yet, the kayak company spells it with a ‘Y’. Why? I dunno. They’re Welsh. That might have something to do with it. Or maybe they started the company back when it was all cool and hip to spell things with ‘y’ and ‘z’ in place of the usual characters.