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I'm recreating a Tom & Jerry scene by hand — here's Jerry's silhouette blocking pass
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I'm recreating a Tom & Jerry scene by hand — here's Jerry's silhouette blocking pass

Hello group. I am a big fan of the original MGM shorts. I've started a YouTube series recreating scenes frame by frame as a way to study how the original masters worked (similar to how painters study the masters like DaVinci and Monet by copying them).

https://i.redd.it/pvnbraj0aj1h1.gif

This is earlies stage - a silhouette animatic of Jerry before any real drawings begins. How does it read? Any guesses as to which episode this is from?

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u/Murthy-Unprompted — 6 days ago
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For my next animation project, I used solid red silhouettes instead of line drawing for the blockout phase - here's why it changed my workflow.

If you've seen my previous post, you'd know that I am doing Tom & Jerry master studies on my youtube channel unprompted frames. In the Tom's animation I used simple line drawn shapes for the blockout phase which worked really well, but looking back, I could see that I had to still visualise the silhouettes in my head as the overlapping lines were a bit distracting.

For the Jerry project, I have used solid fill brush to quickly get to the point. This not only removed the need for me visualise mentally (as it's right there in front of me), it sped my up by around 30%.

I attached a link to the GIF posted on my Patreon. Please check it out and leave a comment? Do you read the character? Could I have done better?

Post link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/silhouette-pass-158433935?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

My channel is youtube.com/@unpromptedframes if you want to follow the full series. No AI. Never AI.

u/Murthy-Unprompted — 6 days ago
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I started a new journey at 40

I grew up in the Southern region of India where art was never considered as a serious career path. Engineering was. I put the pencil down a long time ago.

Now at 40, I am trying to rekindle the joy of drawing through animations. I used to watch a lot of Tom and Jerry as a kid so I thought it would be nice to do a little master study of it

I'm starting with a 9 seconds scene from Saturday Evening Puss, pulled apart and rebuilt from scratch — blockout pass, key poses, inbetweens, the whole process documented frame by frame.

It's animated on twos at 24fps — same approach as the original. The squash and stretch on the landing alone took more takes than I'd like to admit.

No AI. No shortcuts. Just my iPad and Midas Pen, and time and a dream that got a second chance.

Would love to hear what the community thinks — especially anyone who has done master studies themselves.

The first part is attached. More parts will be released once edited.

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u/Murthy-Unprompted — 12 days ago