This concept is actually very promising.I came up with one too: Gigamation!
Basically, you have actors in prosthetic makeup or costume (think tokusatsu) holding or standing next to tiny stop motion figures to give the appearence they're giant-sized.
The Wonderful Worlds of Whatevermation!
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Not quite as original as you think:I may have just come up with a new type of entertainment...
I call it: Handimation!
Handimation - Google Drive
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Inspirations:
Oobi (TV series) - Wikipedia
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Thumbs! - Wikipedia
My Handimation would technically be more than just a version of Oobi. More like "Vaudeville with fingers". It could be able to do family and mature, comedy and action, all sorts of genres (not just preschool) and it would look more like this, with the whole hand functioning as the character's "body":
Update: rather then just stop motion, most examples would use marionettes or other puppets that utilise dangling downwards. I even intend Gerry Anderson to be involved somehow.
My Handimation would technically be more than just a version of Oobi. More like "Vaudeville with fingers". It could be able to do family and mature, comedy and action, all sorts of genres (not just preschool) and it would look more like this, with the whole hand functioning as the character's "body":
I also have an idea for some interesting (and comedic) origins.
Essentially a Muppet performer and an animator (who just so happen to be old friends) (both potentially TL-exclusive) meet each other in the hall, and perform a secret handshake of sorts (like the ones you see in movies and TV), one of them pulls off a "walking hands" trick, and then they think "You know, there just might be a market for this..." One thing leads to another, and Bob's your uncle, you got Handimation.
Initially, the pair's new style is used in some TV commercials, small comedy/parody sketches on TV and a few self-contained short films and music videos (perhaps inspiring the "variation" used in The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made (maybe after Jim or someone else finds out about the duo's creation)), but eventually gets picked up by other studios. Sometime during all of this, the performer-animator duo could start up their own studio tailored to their new medium of entertainment, likely under the name Handimation Incorporated (thus coining the term "Handimation").
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(in the animated logo, the hand animates like the one in the Chantier Films logo)
My idea came from not only the sources I listed (Oobi!, Thumbs, the new BBC3 idents), but also my own life. Ya see, when I'm by myself, I sometimes like to play with my own hands (not in that way, get your head outta the gutter) and act out little stories with them and my overactive imagination.
Any thoughts?
Great!
I know, I think it's a pretty coolbeanz idea.
I was maybe having the hand-actors have animated faces (made after filming), so the characters can be more expressive.
Thanks!
Aw shucks...
The (Rather Comedic and) Interesting Backstory of Handimation (in 3½D)
Fig 1: the basis for Handimation
Essentially a Muppet performer and an animator (who just so happen to be old friends) (both potentially TL-exclusive) meet each other in the hall, and perform a secret handshake of sorts (like the ones you see in movies and TV), one of them pulls off a "walking hands" trick, and then they think "You know, there just might be a market for this..." One thing leads to another, and Bob's your uncle, you got Handimation.
Fig 2: the Handimation Incorporated logo
Initially, the pair's new style is used in some TV commercials, small comedy/parody sketches on TV and a few self-contained short films and music videos (perhaps inspiring the "variation" used in The Cheapest Muppet Movie Ever Made (maybe after Jim or someone else finds out about the duo's creation)), but eventually gets picked up by other studios. Sometime during all of this, the performer-animator duo could start up their own studio tailored to their new medium of entertainment, likely under the name Handimation Incorporated (thus coining the term "Handimation").
Fig 3: Cyriak's Walks of Life, a video using a VERY loose definition of Handimation
I presyme Spoonimation involves gluing, superimposing, or drawing eyes, clothes, and hair onto spoons and waving them around?
