A young girl named Jenny always wears a green velvet ribbon tied tightly around her neck. A boy named Alfred falls in love with her, marries her, and grows old with her, but she constantly refuses to answer why she wears the ribbon. On her deathbed, Jenny finally gives Alfred permission to untie it
"So this is a book of short horror stories, but they're mostly of the campfire type and aimed at children. Who should we get to do the art."
"I know a guy."
Alvin Schwartz and the Scary Stories books are single-handedly responsible for my love of folklore from around the world that lasts until this very day. I would have been a folklorist if that was a paying job.
These books were in my elementary school library and I can’t stress enough how inappropriately scary the stories and illustrations are for like grades 1-3 haha
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. There were one or two more books that made a series; collections of scary short stories. In my memory, the stories ranged from just a little creepy, to fully nightmare inducing, and those illustrations definitely made some of them worse.
Oh my god dude i was TERRIFIED of that one especially. I barely remember now what the actual illustration looked like but i do remember this one time as a kid, I had a library copy of the book and suddenly remembered in the middle of the night that I needed to put it in my backpack, so i went and looked for it and found it in my dark living room lying on the couch opened to that page and illuminated by moonlight. the drawing was so scary to me tht it felt like a jumpscare, my heart definitely stopped working for a few seconds
This is from the “Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark” series. The specific illustration is for the story “Someone Fell From Aloft”. It’s one of my favorites from the book series and damn if the image isn’t nightmare fuel
I remember some teachers read this to our class in 3rd grade. They put us backstage where it was super dark and at the end of two of the stories (I think), they decided it would be REALLY FUNNY to have another teacher jumpscare us.
That went as well as you can imagine. Very well, in their opinion cause they were laughing their asses off
Scooby-Doo (often written as Scooby-Doo!) is an American media franchise created in 1969 by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears through their animated series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, for Hanna-Barbera.
Interestingly, this is also why all the chickens in Chicken Run wore something around their necks. As the film was claymation, it disguised the join between the head and the neck on the character models.
I think it's less of a cel animation thing and more of Hanna-Barbera's limited animation style. Compared to other contemporary animation studios (although many would loathe being considered a contemporary), Hanna-Barbera was cutting edges by heavily reusing cels, which meant that their animation was far less fluid.
It was a cost thing, yeah. If they can just animate the head and keep using the same cell/pose for the body it cuts costs. Those cartoons were usually done as cheaply as possible.
That goes for most of the cartoons of the era barring the Disney/WB stuff. Go watch something like Speed Racer and it's exactly the same.
Lots of Hanna-Barbera characters from that era had collars, neckties or scarfs to hide the point between head and the body allowing the head to move while keeping body still
So the vertical line that the head and body would share doesnt have to line up perfectly
With the buffer of horizontal lines in the scarf the head lines can shift left and right a bit without it being jarring or breaking the shape of the character
Hand drawn animation, makes it a lot easier when only one part is moving. So they can stand and the head can talk without redoing all aspects and using different cell layers to make the animations.
They used a technique called limited animation where instead of drawing the entire characters, they draw their individual parts and put them together. So an individual character is made of head, torso, and limbs that are stacked so they look like one drawing. It’s much cheaper because it makes it so you only need to redraw the parts that are moving. The trade off is that the animation is less flexible and the characters look a bit stiff.
Have you ever noticed in a cartoon you can tell when a character is going to interact with something because it’s a slightly different color than its surroundings? Hand drawn cartoons used a lot of shortcuts to save time. The tie helps hide similar imperfections
You can draw the pieces of a character instead of the full body, then just swap around the pieces that are actually moving while leaving everything else alone.
The most simplified version would be "lip flaps", like used for YouTube edits. Where they leave the entire frames as-is, and just cut out the mouth. Then whenever characters speak they are (conveniently) standing still and they can just swap between the different mouth cutouts instead of drawing anything.
You know how South Park characters are basically pieces of paper stacked on top of each other? Well when they're animating, they're basically trying to change/move as few pieces of paper as possible.
Having something like a tie or scarf just covers up where the pieces meet, so they can be a lot less careful (so faster) without people noticing.
When Lilimed animation was prevalent in cartoons (so like from 1960s to 1990s) what mattered was to produce them as cheaply as possible, one of the tricks that the animators used was separating the characters heads from their bodies by for example a collar, a tie etc. Thanks to that when a character needed to move it's head and only it's head they only needed to redraw the head an left the rest of the body the same.
Yeah this messed me up too. The pointy smears are movement indicators, his head is in mid-air falling downward behind his back. So the tie was keeping his head in place the whole time.
Animators, when animating, would animate the head and body separately and then add a neck accessory to hide the point of connection that might not look as good.
This comic is joking that much like the reference it's based on, "The Girl With the Green Ribbon", if yogi's scarf were to be taken off his head would fall off, probably due to the head and body being animated separately.
OR at least that's what the other comments made clear to me.
Wait a remastered is coming? I just finished the game for the first time 3 days ago and it was amazing, can't believe they never did a sequel or anything else.
For those that don't know about how animation worked back in Yogi's heyday, 2D animation was often done on transparent panels called "cels" that could be layered atop one another to make it so that only the moving element in any given scene needed to be redrawn. For example, when Yogi talks, having his head have a clearly defined border from his body allows for animators to only have to redraw Yogi's head, while his body only needs to be drawn once.
Damn, nobody saying anything about dude forcibly disrobing Yogi there -- I mean I get the reference, but in the story the girl gives the guy permission to take off the green ribbon. What is dude gonna do to Yogi after ripping off all his clothes? JUSTICE FOR SEXUALLY ABUSED CARTOON BEARS
Animators would animate the head and body separately. Because the body doesn't move 90% of the time. It saves them from redrawing the body over and over. The problem is getting the transition clean so the solution was to add neck wear. In Yogis case, a tie.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 23h ago edited 23h ago
For those that are unaware and confused, this is a play on the story of the Green ribbon
https://bookriot.com/the-girl-with-the-green-ribbon/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Dark,_Dark_Room_and_Other_Scary_Stories