Dancing Is Forbidden: An Aqua Teen Hunger Force Exploration
Below is the Animation List that was delivered to ATHF artist Bob Pettitt in regards to assets he needed to create for the episode Global Grilling (s04e07). THANK YOU to Bob for letting me share this fascinating peek behind the Aqua Teen curtain!
Bob said: "The animation lists were put together by Dave and Matt and probably by an editor who was gonna do first rough pass, and a PA or asst producer who would type it up and send to me and whatever co. was doing the animation. So, that co. and I would be working simultaneously without knowing what the other were doing. You can see this in Global Grilling, where my mucous elements, pool and Meat’s mucous throne, are a different color than the animated mucous creatures."
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Aqua Teen # 65: Global Grilling
ORIGINAL ANIMATION
1) Shake blows out snot – this is probably an After Effects thing
2) Moucus Man in various states of formation (3 states). A sweat cycle of Moucus Man melting slightly. Lip flap. We will duplicate Moucus Man a few times and have them carrying Meatwad on a regal platform, so we MAY need a walk-cycle (not sure yet) - but we definitely need a still layer of Moucus Man’s arms holding the platform
3) Sweat cycles for Shake, Fry, Carl and Meat. Is this something that can be animated and used for all three? Or is it an after effects thing?
4) Tidal Wave hits ATHF house – animated? After Effects?
5) Polar bear licking and chewing on Meatwad’s head
6) Carl holding porno tapes over his head, so they don’t get wet in his flooded living room (could be a still)
7) Carl hocking and blowing snot.
8) Moucus men combining and encasing Carl (Meatwad’s line “Congest him! At once!”)
BOB – Backgrounds
1) Sky over ATHF house – clouds igniting into fire
2) ATHF house ext. 242 degreees outside (burned grass, melted shingles, oppressive sweltering)
3) Carl’s pool ext. same as above (water almost totally evaporated in the pool, plastic melted)
4) Carl and ATHF house EXT after Melted-Polar-Cap-Tidal-Wave hits it. Don’t know what the water should be (After Effects, Animated, PSD?) but we will need broken away ice floes.
5) Carl’s living room, wrecked and filled with water. VHS pornos floating everywhere.
BOB – Original stills
1) Kiddie pool filled with moucus
2) George Washington grill – an all-wooden grill with removable grates that have to be rubbed together to make heat
3) Bad-Ass Chrome Grill – all chromes, made from pieces of the sun and vials of nuclear material from Chernobyl (may need to go close-up on dials and settings)
4) Thermostat – in hall of ATHF house
5) Hot dogs, burgers, grilling meat – in 2 states (raw and extremely overcooked charcoal burned) (we may have some of these from other shows)
6) Frying pan (2 states – normal and incinerated)
7) Shake’s shades – melted into a glob on his face
8) Doorknobs, Shoes, toilet seats, anything you could get germs from, filled inside ATHF living room.
9) Moucus receptacles (bowls, Alton Brown cookwear)
10) Meatwad’s regal platform (moucus men carry him in on it, and fan him) Needs fan and Snot crown of somee sort.