My Idea for a 24-Minute Bancy Cartoon Film! (EDITED!!!!)

EDITED on Monday, Saturday, May 14th, 2016 at 7:36am EST

P.S., This is really a GOOD POST for May 2016!!!!

"Bancy turns Ten!" Visual Development Sketch in COLOR No. 001:
Michelle Finkle after falling off the couch and on her bum while she
is having her phone call to talk to Mike Patterson about Bancy's
10th Birthday already coming up quicker in a few days! LOL
(Who Knew That Michelle and Mike were cartoon teenage "clowns"! OH NO?")

Howdy, One and All!

Michael here with ex-CEL-ent news!:

After the completion of my very first 2D hand-drawn animated Bancy cartoon "One Crazy Date to Roller Skate!" and when it premieres after it will get completed at last, I will make the plans for a 24-minute traditionally-animated Bancy cartoon short film entitled "Bancy turns Ten!" and it will take place around the events of the Last Day of Summer and the coming of Bancy's 10th Birthday on September 9th on the same day as my birth circa Early Autumn 1994, well, nearly three months after the massive success of Disney's "The Lion King" when it premiered in cinemas everywhere on June 1994 claiming its own rights as "The Most Highest-Grossing Traditionally Animated Feature Film of 1994" beating Siriol/Pannonia/NHK's "The Princess and the Goblin" and Don Bluth's "Thumbelina"!! Also, the BancyToon Humans (including Mike Patterson and his redheaded gal Michelle Finkle!) will have to be redrawn to resemble 1980's Hanna-Barbera cartoon human characters with four-fingered hands exclusively for "Bancy turns Ten!" along with redrawing the BancyToon Rodents in Eric Goldberg's animation drawing style!

"Bancy turns Ten!" Visual Development Sketch in COLOR No. 002:
Toby Ratwaller comes up with a fool-proof idea on celebrating his
cousin Bancy's tenth birthday at a Rocky Rodent's Pizza Playhouse (my own
spoof of Chuck E. Cheese's! LOL) on "Miller Road" Flint, Michigan, U.S.A.
which once housed a Fun Zone Pizza Plaza (also my own spoof of
ShowBiz Pizza Place! UH-OH!) when it first opened in its Flint, Michigan
location around May 1982 nearly two years after the very first Fun Zone
Pizza Plaza opened in Kansas City, Missouri in Spring 1980 in about three years after
the very first Rocky Rodent's Pizza Playhouse opened in San Jose, California
in Early Summer 1977! (Bancy'fied Pizza Spoof Moment, Isn't It, Folks?)

However, After the release of "One Crazy Date to Roller Skate!", I'll plan to do some crowdfunding for my 24-minute fully traditionally-animated Bancy cartoon "Bancy turns Ten!" through Generosity IndieGoGo (or GoFundMe?) in order for me to collaborate with Orlando independent animation studio "Premise Entertainment" and a California independent animation studio "James Lopez Animation" and, yes, I will even collaborate with former Disney animator James "Jimmy" Jackson for Animator's Sake!!!! Also, not only that I will also plan to buy more 2D traditional hand-drawn animation supplies from Culver City, California-based Cartoon Colour Co., Inc. and Temecula, California-based Lightfoot Animation Limited and British animation supply store ChromaColour UK, Well, According to what Leif Sanchez said in one of those comments in the post on my actual facebook timeline, Not only I'll include John Debney and/or Mark Watters (?) as the cartoon film music score composers along with Warner Bros. Studio Facilities doing the sound effects and all 16-35mm film-outs from FotoKem on all prints in all film festivals across the United States and Canada and even the United Kingdom (England and Wales) and Ireland but, for voice actors and voice actresses, I'll include Keith Ferguson as the voice of Bancy, Charlie Adler as Toby Ratwaller, Jason Marsden as Frederick Ratwaller/Toby's Practical Joker of a Twin Brother, Rob Paulsen as Colby Mouseworthy and Wally McMouser and Karen's Dad and Michelle's Dad and Toby's Dad/Andrew "Andy" Ratwaller, David Kaufman as Mike Patterson (impersonating Marty McFly from the "Back to the Future" movie series!) and Grey Griffin as Michelle Finkle (impersonating Riley Daring from "The Replacements"!), Tara Strong as Percy McMouser and Baby Ollie McMouser, Jr., Jeff Bennet as Mike's Dad/Roderick Patterson and Bancy's Dad/Ollie McMouser, Sr., Tress MacNellie as Karen's Mom and Michelle's Mom and Bancy's Mom/Susan McMouser, Kathe Souice as Mike's Mom/Grace Patterson and Amy Foxworthy/Adam's Twin Sister/Karen's 11-year old sibling No. 1 and Toby's Mom/Janice Ratwaller, Elizabeth "E.G." Daily as Adam Foxworthy/Amy's Twin Brother/Karen's 11-year old sibling No. 2, Jeff Bergman (STILL ALIVE!!!!) as Frank McMouser (impersonating Hanna-Barbera's Mr. Jinks but with a good-yet-even-more-friendlier attitude!) and Alyson Stoner as Karen Foxworthy/Mike's Teeange Cousin from Clio and Janet McAndersen/Bancy's 10-year old Human Girlfriend along with Frank Welker can provide the vocal effects for Bancy's stuffed mouse toy named "Slats the little blue mouse" and Frank Welker will also do the voice of Rock Rodent Prize Counter Clerk and Rocky Rodent Employee No. 1 with Jessica DiCicco as the voice of Rock Rodent Employee No. 2, Catherine Taber as Rocky Rodent Food Cashier along with Debi Derryberry as the voice of Michelle's 10-year old brother Alvey Finkle and Michelle Creber as the voice of Mike's 12-Year Old Sister Melanie Patterson, Nancy Cartwright as Mike's 12-Year Old Little Brother Roderick Patterson, Jr./Roderick Patterson II/Roderick Patterson the Second (impersonating Todd Daring from "The Replacements")  and, yes, Billy West can be added as Preston McPatterson, Bancy's human peer buddy impersonating Ren and Stimpy at the same time and modeled after my own 21-year old self and that's all for now for "animator's sake"!!!!

A little something from the legendary Walt Disney (1905-1966)
courtesy of the Walt Disney's Tips on Animation book!
(Image Courtesy of: Traditional Animation on Facebook!!!!)

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Backstage Bancy - Making a cel painting of Toby Ratwaller and Jordan!

CREATED on Wednesday, February 10th, 2016 at 10:36am EST

Hello, Animation Fans of Blogspot/Blogger!

I'm Here on This Post to talk about how I made a cel painting of Toby Ratwaller and Jordan!

For the first step, I made a pencil sketch of Toby and Jordan onto a sheet of 12-field (10-1/2 inches by 12-1/2 inches)ACME-punched animation paper in a blend of BLUE Col-Erase pencils for the "rough" sketch lines and the Palomino "Blackwing" pencils to tie it down! ("Half the Pressure, Twice the Speed") For the Second Step, I placed a clean sheet of acetate called a "cel" over the rough sketch and I hand-traced it in ink, this time, with a black Sharpie permanent marker since my OLD Rapidograph/KOH-I-NOOR technical pen is all dried up!

For the third step, I've turned the acetate cel over and painted it on the reverse side like always, of course, with Cartoon Colour Cel-Vinyl acrylic animation paints!!! (notice the Acme peg holes!)

Even though this cel was left "unfinished" on December 15th, 2015, I finally managed to complete the cel painting just in the nick of time! (Notice the Acme pegbar!) While the rest of the Cel-Vinyl paint is drying, I managed to paint a background onto a sheet of 11-inch by 14-inch inch Bristol board using Cel-Vinyl acrylic animation paints for the colors and a Faber-Castell ink pen for the outlines in the style of 1961-era Disney Animation (or Hanna-Barbera background painter Art Lozzi?) of a park landscape with grass, blue skies, a pine tree and a regular tree!

And, after the background paint is all dried up onto the sheet of bristol board, I've placed the finished inked-and-painted cel, after drying hours, on top of the background and it looked perfect! (notice the Acme peg holes!) And, yes, I  did manage to place this cel with background set up in its own 11-inch by 14-inch frame! I'm Glad that I've finally completed this cel painting for 2-1/2 months!

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Yours Sincerely

MICHAEL "Mooter" IGAFO-TE'O
P.S., IF Any Comments after This Post, Please Let Me Hear from You!

Michael Quits His Disney Dream! - 2016-01

CREATED at WED 01/20/2016 at 3:30pm ET/4:30pm CT
P.S., Disney, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!?!?!?

"I Have Ashamed Myself because of that 'Wreck-It Ralph' movie," sobbed Tom the Cat,
"ASHAMED!!" Notice this is an actual 4x3 Screenshot from
the Chuck Jones-directed "Tom and Jerry" cartoon of the 1960's
entitled "Is There A Doctor in The Mouse?"

Because My Mom took back "Walt Before Mickey" after it was due even though She rented it for two days, I couldn't get a chance to see it and Mom watched it without me because all I saw was the finale sequence where Walt's "Plane Crazy" cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse is indeed a success in about two short films before "Steamboat Willie"!!! Here's The Reason Why I Already QUIT My Has-Been "Disney Dream" to sacrifice it for my independent film career!:

First Reason - Because "Winnie the Pooh" failed at the box office due to moviegoers ditching it for a new "Harry Potter" movie of 2011, Disney decided to stop making 2D traditionally-animated feature films for theatrical release by working on a 3D computer animated feature film known as "Wreck-It Ralph" which the new CG movie was released on November 2012 and, not only it earned nominations for the Oscar and the Golden Globe but it actually won The 2012 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature Film beating "Brave" and "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" for that competition and, as of January 2016, the award-winning glory of "Frozen" and "Big Hero 6" has already planned to remove "Kim Possible" from iTunes Video sales as well as reruns of "Kim Possible" on Disney Channel and I know who replaced "Kim Possible"... It is Nickelodeon's "Mako Mermaids"!!! I Hated "Danny Phantom" for Being FAR TOO VIOLENT TO EVEN COMPETE WITH "KIM POSSIBLE" AND, FOR THAT SAID, I'M BANNING THAT "CHALKZONE" CARTOON FROM MY STUDIO BECAUSE "CHALKZONE" REALLY IS A "MICKEY MOUSE" RIP-OFF!!!!

Second Reason - Disney's 3D computer animated musical smash hit of 2013 entitled "Frozen" which was based on Hans Christian Andersen's story of "The Snow Queen", had already won multiple awards including The 2013 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film which was Disney's first Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film...   for YEARS after "Beauty and the Beast" was nominated for The 1991 Academy Award for Best Picture!! And, thanks to the multi-award winning glory days of "Frozen", during July 2015, corporate Walt Disney World managed to shut down the "Magic of Disney Animation" attraction, famous for being home to Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida, to turn it into a new "Star Wars Launch Bay" attraction! And they even updated the "Norway" pavilion at EPCOT Center's World Showcase to have a "Frozen" theme including a modified version of the classic "Maelstrom" ride, this time, with a new "Frozen" theme! and, because of the best of "Frozen", DisneyParks Blog already announced that "Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular" will have its last curtain call during Spring 2016 that it will leave Disney California Adventure to make room for a new "Frozen" musical show attraction or, in the words of the "Disney California Adventure" people of Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, U.S.A., "Aladdin and Company will say their goodbye to us during their last curtain call as Aladdin sets the Genie free"! And, yes, the new "Frozen" musical show attraction will replace "Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular" during Summer 2016! And, corporate Walt Disney World is currently updating Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park with Post-2015 themes ranging from a new "Star Wars"-themed area as a companion to "Star Wars Launch Bay" and "Star Tours" to the new "Toy Story Land"! (People of the DisneyParks Corporate Headquarters, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!?!?!?)
Third Reason - Because "Phineas and Ferb" got cancelled for "Pickle and Peanut" during Autumn 2015, Disney Television Animation also planned to stop making traditionally-animated TV shows for Disney Channel and Disney XD except they're keeping the production of "The 7D" for traditional hand-drawn animation in the actual "7D" cartoon that, not only I was surprised (with Joy) to see Dan and Swampy's concept sketch of their new Disney TV cartoon entitled "Milo Murphy's Law" which is just the title character on the Disney wikia and, well, It was revealed that the animation style used in "Milo Murphy's Law" was different than the animation style used in "Phineas and Ferb" and that's okay! But Disney Channel is already getting rid of reruns of "Phineas and Ferb" to make way for a new animated TV show based on that "Rapunzel" movie known as "Tangled: The Series" starting in the year 2017 on the same year as Disney XD's premiere of "Milo Murphy's Law"!!! HAS THE PEOPLE AT DISNEY TELEVISION ANIMATION GONE MAD?!?!? NO!! ANYTHING BUT INSANITY!!!

"THIS SHOULDN'T HAPPEN TO A SQUID!!!"
says Squidward Tentacles.

Because of the end of an old era of Disney Animation, I decided to quit my has-been Disney Dream for my independent film career because, I've overheard back on 2015 that Tony Bancroft said to my mom, Jackie Igafo-Te'o, that Traditional Hand-Drawn Animation still lives in the NEXT generation, this time, in the hands of small studios and independent film makers and, I've also witnessed Don Bluth's Indiegogo campaign that he's already working on his new 2D traditionally-animated feature-length comeback known as "Dragon's Lair: The Movie" and I was very proud that 2D traditional hand-drawn animation is finally coming back to the film industry and, after being inspired by Don Bluth, I decided that my small, family-owned animation production company dubbed "Michael Igafo-Te'o Animation Studios" will enter its realm of independent film making using 2D traditional hand-drawn animation techniques which I coined this as "The Don Bluth Style of Independent Film Animation" and there's no way I'm going back to Florida because I don't like what's with those new changes going on at Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park at Walt Disney World resort in Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.!!!

Yours Sincerely,

MICHAEL A. "Mooter" IGAFO-TE'O
P.S., IF Any Comments After Reading This Entire Blog Post, Please Let Me Hear from You!

My Bancy Studio Renovation Process ALREADY ON ITS WAY! - 2016-01

Created on Saturday, January 9th, 2016 at 3:00pm ET/2:00pm CT

P.S., Good Luck at The 2015 Golden Globe Awards Ceremony on NBC-TV during the night of SUNDAY 01/10/2016, Fellow "Animation" Fans!!!

My "BancyToon Podcast" YouTube Page's "Pizza Time
Bancy" block will be added rather during February 2016
or Spring 2016 (?) Notice the 1991-1994 CEC-TV Logo as
spotted on The CEC "American Pride 1991" Show Tape!

Hello, Fellow Animation Fans! I'm Back on Blogger/Blogspot after such a short HAITUS on Christmas Break 2015! Despite the dreaded-yet-now-controversial December 2015 "Cinemark Movies 12 Warren, MI" Incident where Cinemark's "Warren, Michigan" theater got rigged by having a reissue of "Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone" ruin the 2-week Encore Reissue of Disney & PIXAR's "Inside Out" which fooled me to become "unexpectedly jealous" of the Warner Bros. Animation's "Looney Tunes"/"Merrie Melodies" theatrical short film series but Bancy McMouser and His Family with Toby Ratwaller and Toby's Family along with Mickey Mouse and Friends including PIXAR newcomers Riley Andersen and her parents and Riley Andersen's possible boyfriend Jordan (NOTE: I Think that the "Jordan" character in that "Inside Out" movie and its spin-off short "Riley's First Date?" was rumored that Jordan himself was actually that All-American nephew of Linguini from Disney & PIXAR's "Ratatouille" movie because Linguini and Jordan both have curly hair!) and Phineas and Ferb and their family and friends and even Tom the Cat and Jerry the Mouse from the "Tom and Jerry" cartoons and others such as Shaun the Sheep and his Flock and Bitzer the Sheepdog and The Farmer of Mossy Bottom Farm from the "Shaun the Sheep" series (and theatrical feature film) along with Wallace and Gromit have all teamed up to immediately escape from the insanity of Cinemark Movies 12 in Warren, Michigan by Bancy Studio VIP Bus or, in my words, "ditch Cinemark Movies 12 of Warren for two other Cinemark theatres in Michigan known as 'Cinemark Ann Arbor 20 & IMAX' in Ypsilanti, Michigan and 'Cinemark Flint West 14' in Flint, Michigan"! About My Bancy Studio Renovation Project... It's Already On Its Way!!! Even Though Cleaning Up and Re-Organizing My Studio Basement Apartment was a start as of Friday, January 8th, 2016 and We Did manage to throw away old, dried up paints in the garbage and managed to keep all the ones that are still fresh (I.E. the Poly-Con paints are dried up and no longer used and, well, same goes some of that crummy oil-based gouache paints but I did keep a few oil-based gouache paints and I'm keeping my watercolor paints in its own watercolor cake pans too!) and I did keep all my good drawings and managed to discard some I don't need anymore into the garbage (including the blood-and-gore infested "Devil Rat Nightmare" drawing!) and I managed to keep my Eric Goldberg drawings and My Best Artwork too! I Did manage to re-organize all of my DVD/Blu-Ray titles, My Disney Infinity Figurine Collection, All Animation Supplies (New and Used) and All Art Supplies (New and Used) and All my Plushies, All my Collectable Knick-Knacks, All Pencils, All Markers and My OLD Table Top "Animation Easel"! I did relocate my Alan Gordon/FAX-Richardson Animation Drafting Table from its old area by the stairs to its new home between both Art Tables where the VHS rack is located behind the animation drafting table! However, I did rescue my "Allenwood Animation Desk" recreation design (called the "BancyToon Pro" desk!) from being accidentally thrown away! And, well, Because I have no interest in watching "Looney Tunes" anymore because of The December 2015 "Cinemark Movies 12 Warren, Michigan" Incident, I am already HOOKED on these back-up animation favorites on Netflix and DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs and VHS Tapes and even on YouTube and other Internet Video Options!:

1. The "Tom and Jerry" Cartoons (1940-1957, 1961-1962, 1963-1967, 2000-Today)

2. "Wallace and Gromit" series (produced by Aardman Animations of Bristol, England since 1989!)

3. "Shaun the Sheep" (produced by Aardman Animations of Bristol, England since 2007!)
4. "Morph" (produced by Aardman Animations of Bristol, England since The Early 1980's!)

5. "Inside Out" (produced by Disney & PIXAR since Summer 2015!)

6. "Phineas and Ferb" (produced by Disney Television Animation from 2007 until 2015!)

7. "Ren and Stimpy" (Original 1990's Nicktoons Version ONLY!!!)
8. "SpongeBob SquarePants (Produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studios since 1999!)

9. "Planes" movie series (Produced by DisneyToon Studios from 2013 until 2014!)

10. "Rugrats" (Produced by Nickelodeon and Klasky-Csupo since 1991!)
11. "All Grown Up" (Produced by Nickelodeon and Klasky-Csupo since 2003!)
12. "Kim Possible" (Produced by Disney Television Animation from 2002 until 2007!)

13. "Banjo the Woodpile Cat" (1979 Don Bluth Classic, well, a traditionally-animated 27-minute short film produced entirely in a garage from 1975 through 1979!)

14. Don Bluth Classics (All Favorites from 1982 to Today!)

15. Disney Animation Short Film Archives (My Favorites from 1927 to Today!)
16. "Timon and Pumbaa" (Produced by Disney Television Animation from 1995 until 1999!)

17. "Goof Troop" (Produced by Disney Television Animation for The Disney Afternoon!)
18. "A Goofy Movie" (Produced by DisneyToon Studios on Spring 1995!)
19. "An Extremely Goofy Movie" (Produced by DisneyToon Studios on Leap Day 2000!)
20. "Aladdin" series (Produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios from 1992 until 1996!)

21. "The Replacements" (Produced by Disney Television Animation from 2006 until 2009!)
22. The Classic "Popeye the Sailor" Cartoons (From the Mid-1930's through 1957!)
23. "Harveytoons" (Produced by Famous Studios/Paramount Cartoon Studios in the 1940's and 50's!)
24. "Madagascar" series (Produced by DreamWorks Animation SKG since 2005!)
25. "Kung Fu Panda" series (Produced by DreamWorks Animation SKG since 2008!)

26. "The Croods" (Produced by DreamWorks Animation SKG in 2013)
27. "All Hail King Julien" (DreamWorks Animation SKG's Netflix Debut since 2014!)
28. "Dawn of The Croods" (DreamWorks Animation SKG's 2D Traditional Hand-Drawn Animated Comeback, this time, for streaming Netflix since December 2015! - NEWLY DISCOVERED!!)
29. "Jungle Cubs" (Produced by Disney Television Animation from 1996 until 1997)
30. "The Lion King" series (Produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios from 1994 until 2004!)

31. "Toy Story" series (Produced by Disney & PIXAR since 1995!)
32. Disney Feature Animation Favorites! (My Best Ones are all 2D Hand-Drawn Animated and some 3D Computer Animated for "animator's sake"!!!)
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Yours Sincerely,

MICHAEL A. "Mooter" IGAFO-TE'O - Autistic Animation Hobbyist since 2007!
P.S., IF Any Comments About This Blog Post, Please Let Me Hear from You!

The Day, Bancy Studios Changed! - How Michael cleaned up his act

CREATED on Thursday, October 29th, 2015 at 11:26pm Eastern/10:26pm Central

Special Thanks to my mother Jackie Igafo-Te'o and Eric Goldberg and Don Bluth and Gary Goldman and Andrew Steiner and Tony Bancroft for inspiring me to become an independent 2D animation film maker!!!

My Own Halloween 2015 Drawing of Bancy McMouser and Joy Anderson
(Notice that this was drawn on letter-sized bristol board using a Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pen,
A Sharpie Permanent Marker and Color Pencils (Including RED and BLUE Col-Erase Pencils too!)

When I Found Floyd Norman's recent Blog Post about how Floyd changed his ways by leaving his CGI ways and goes back to 2D Traditional Hand-Drawn Animation by getting off his Wacom Cintiq screen computer tablet machine and going back to his KEM Webber "Disney" Animation Desk to draw a picture of Mickey and Minnie on a sheet of Animation Paper and I quote "I Think My 2D Animation will go to old-fashioned techniques instead of everything digital except I'm keeping my Mac OS X copy of "Toon Boom Storyboard Pro" software for the "storyboarding" part of The "Bancy Studio" Style of 2D Traditional Hand-Drawn Animation!! After Reading Floyd's recent Blog Post of October 29th, 2015, I Decided that I, Michael Igafo-Te'o, will be better off with my best animation techniques which are known as "2D Traditional Hand-Drawn Animation" and "Stop-Motion Animation" and, thanks for Floyd's so-called "animation rant", I decided to keep away from that "Frozen" movie and its spin-off short "Frozen Fever" along with keeping away from the upcoming "Frozen 2" and I have no choice but to turn my company, "Michael Igafo-Te'o Animation Studios, from a "Disney Dreamer" to what it would've been as a small, family-owned independent animation studio that approves both 2D Traditional Hand-Drawn and Stop-Motion animation techniques in one studio for "animator's sake"!!!!!!!!" However, I Did Hear the News that Don Bluth and Gary Goldman started their own Kickstarter campaign on creating a 2D traditionally-animated feature film based on Bluth's laserdisc video arcade game entitled "Dragon's Lair: The Movie" and, yes fellow Don Bluth fans, YOU'VE FINALLY WITNESS A HAND-DRAWN ANIMATED MIRACLE FROM DON BLUTH AND HIS TEAM!!! And I'm Proud that 2D Traditional Hand-Drawn Animation is coming back to the motion picture screens with James Lopez's hand-drawn animated steampunk film "Hullabaloo", Glen Keane's "Duet" short film, Andreas Deja's film "Mushka" and many other hand-drawn animated comeback films yet to come including my "Bancy and Company" cartoons and Don Bluth's "Dragon's Lair: The Movie"!!!

Here I Am animating Mike and Michelle's walk cycle as a series of
rough animation drawings -- digital in-betweening included!!
(Notice The Palomino Blackwing 602 in my hand as I tie down the rough drawings!!!)

I'm So Proud of Everyone brining back 2D Traditional Hand-Drawn Animation, this time, in the hands of small studios and independent film makers... including Me and my company dubbed "Michael Igafo-Te'o Animation Studios" for animator's sake!!!

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Yours Sincerely,

MICHAEL A. IGAFO-TE'O - Autistic Animation Hobbyist since 2007

P.S., IF Any Comments after reading this post, Please Let Me Hear from You!

Jason Felde to become Michael's New 2D Animation Teacher!!!

CREATED on Saturday, October 24th, 2015 at 12:06pm Eastern/11:06am Central

P.S., Happy 107th Birthday, Preston Blair!!!

Hildy Gloom does a "3-Sets-of-Eyes" Wildtake after She
and her beloved man, Grim, both saw a giant Grumpy as he says to them;
"I'M A BIGGEST, MEANEST WRESTLING MACHINE!!", as seen in
an episode of Disney's "The 7D" entitled "Welcome to the Neighborhood"

Dear 2D Animation Fans of My "Animation Stuff and More" Blog,

I Have Discovered that Kelly Collins at my college, The "Torrant and Kit Young Centers" of Jackson, Michigan, U.S.A., has immediately hired Jason Felde as my NEW 2D animation teacher who does both 2D Traditional and 2D Digital animation techniques and it's because "One Crazy Date to Roller Skate" will be Brian Couling's only involvement with Michael Igafo-Te'o Animation Studios' college division dubbed "BancyTOON University" which opened its doors on My first semester at The Torrant and Kit Young Centers back in September 3rd, 2013 even though September 3rd, 2015 was BancyTOON University's 2nd Anniversary and September 3rd, 2016 (next September) will be BancyTOON University's 3rd Anniversary!

My Lithograph Drawing that I've made using "Autodesk SketchBook Express"
pays homage to Mike Patterson and Toby Ratwaller being
"My Original 'Cartoon Teenager meets Cartoon Rat' Slapstick Comedy
Duo since 2015" as drawn on July 18th, 2015

I'm Happy for Traditional Animation to finally reaching its new home with Small Studios and Independent Film Makers of Today...  Including Me!!!

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Yours Sincerely,

MICHAEL A. IGAFO-TE'O - Autistic Animation Hobbyist since 2007

P.S., IF Any Comments about This Newsflash of October 2015, Please Let Me Hear from You!

Where's Kim Possible Now? Part 3

Created on Wednesday, October 14th, 2015 at 10:24am Eastern/9:24am Central

"This Shouldn't Happen to a Squid" says Squidward Tentacles

I'm VERY DISAPPOINTED that an episode of "Star vs. The Forces of Evil" replaced the very last rerun of "Kim Possible" and, because of it, I must've thought that Wreck-It Ralph attacked and killed Kim Possible to make me cry (and Ron Stoppable pissed off!) and why it got so bad, I'M NEVER GOING BACK TO FLORIDA BECAUSE MY DAD SAID IT WAS TOO EXPENSIVE!!!!!

NONE OF THIS WOULD'VE HAPPENED IF I NEVER WATCHED "WRECK-IT RALPH" ON THE THEATER SCREENS AND ON BLU-RAY+DVD COMBO PACK...    EVER!!!!

"We HATE Wreck-It Ralph because that movie
and the release of that "Frozen" one had both kicked
2D Traditional Hand-Drawn Animation out of
the Disney animation studios" says Herman the Mouse

I HAD THIS HORRIBLE DREAM LAST NIGHT WHERE KIM POSSIBLE GOT KILLED BY WRECK-IT RALPH BY BEING TOSSED INTO THE WILDEBEEST STAMPEDE AND DIED IN THE PROCESS AND, OH NO! BANCY FOUND HER DEAD BODY AND STARTED CRYING AS HE MOURNED FOR HIS LOSS AND WHY IT GOT SO BAD I WOKE UP IN COLD SWEAT AND NEARLY DIED OF A HEART ATTACK WHICH DID NOT HAPPEN AT ALL SO I WROTE THIS BLOG POST AT 10:24am Eastern/9:24 Central THAT NOT ONLY THAT KIM POSSIBLE'S A GONER BUT BECAUSE MY DAD SAID THAT "REVISITING FLORIDA IS TOO EXPENSIVE", MOM AND I HAVE ALREADY DECIDED TO PLAN A DISNEY VACATION CHEAPER THAN FLORIDA WHICH IS ACTUALLY A TRIP TO WALT DISNEY'S HOMETOWN OF MARCELINE, MISSOURI, U.S.A. FOR "ANIMATOR'S SAKE"!!!!    I'M NEVER GOING BACK TO FLORIDA FOR THE LOSS OF KIM POSSIBLE!!!!

P.S., I'M STILL ON MY PERMANENT HATRED ON BOTH "WRECK-IT RALPH" AND THE NOW-EXPANDING "FROZEN" TRILOGY FOR GETTING OLD SCHOOL 2D TRADITIONAL HAND-DRAWN ANIMATION KICKED OUT OF THE DISNEY STUDIOS

Where is Kim Possible Now? Part 2

CREATED on Sunday, October 11th, 2015 at 10:28am Eastern/9:28am Central

"WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED?!?" says Tom

HELP!! SOMEBODY?? ANYBODY???

Kim Possible is...















...DEAD!!!  Because Her Show Got CANCELLED and Her Halloween Special never returned but was replaced by an episode of "Star vs. The Forces of Evil" and, as I type on my damn keyboard...

"You Really Are A Bad Guy to All of Us" says Timon
as He and Pumbaa mourn for the loss of
Old-School Disney Animation after the massive success of
"Frozen" gave this old-fashioned animation technique
"the boot" out of Disney Studios.

..THE BLAME IS ON THAT @$%*!? "WRECK-IT RALPH" MOVIE BECAUSE OLD-SCHOOL 2D ANIMATION GOT KICKED OUT OF THE DISNEY STUDIOS DUE TO THE POPULARITY OF FILMS LIKE "WRECK-IT RALPH" AND "FROZEN" AND EVEN "BIG HERO 6" AND THEY'VE ALREADY BEGAN PRODUCTION ON "FROZEN 2" (a.k.a. "Frozen: The Sequel") DURING THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER 2015 AND THE BAD NEWS IS THAT IT ALREADY KILLED MY SECOND CHANCE TO GO BACK TO WALT DISNEY WORLD IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA, U.S.A. AND I HAD TO "DITCH" IT FOR A FAMILIAR DISNEY VACATION CHEAPER THAN FLORIDA WHICH IS ACTUALLY WALT DISNEY'S HOMETOWN OF MARCELINE, MISSOURI, U.S.A. AND, YES, I'M SORRY FOR MISSING THAT "HOLLYWOOD" EPISODE OF "KIM POSSIBLE" BACK ON LATE SEPTEMBER 2015 AND "WRECK-IT RALPH" IS PARTIALLY THE BLAME, DAMN IT!!! I THOUGHT I WAS NEXT TO DIE FOR BUT I WAS WRONG!!!  I WAS REALLY WRONG!!!!!!!  However, former Disney animator Tony Bancroft said to my Mother; "I got into animation because I loved to draw, still do. I totally want to see 2D animation come back in a big way into feature animation. Do I think that will happen? Yes, I do. I keep hope alive. Do I think it will be Disney or a big studio like Disney that brings it back? No, I don't. I think the future of 2D animation lies with the next generation of small studios and independent film makers. I hope to be in that mix when it happens!"

Goodbye, KP and Ron Stoppable!
See You on DVD Box Set!
(Starts bawling some tears out)

I Thought That Old-School 2D Animation Was DEAD but I Was WRONG because Tony Bancroft already said to my mom that "The Future of Old-School Animation Lies with The Next Generation of Small Studios and Independent Film Makers" and, yes, Like I said already; "Wreck-It Ralph" is partially the blame for our loss of Old-School Disney Animation!!!




Yours Sincerely,
MICHAEL A. IGAFO-TE'O
Autistic Animation Hobbyist

P.S., I'm So Banning that "Wreck-It Ralph" movie for getting old-school 2D animation kicked out of Disney Studios for no reason!!!

Where is Kim Possible Now?

UPDATED on Thursday, September 24th, 2015 at 11:06am Eastern/10:06am Central

"Prince Hans nearly killed me!!!" says Tom the Cat

S.O.S.    S.O.S.   RED ALERT!!  HELP!!!

"Kim Possible" is a Goner because...

...Her "Hollywood"-themed episode has been REPLACED by that "Suite Life of Zack and Cody" episode entitled "That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana" And, as I Type on My Keyboard on My MacBook Pro, THE BLAME IS ON THAT @$*%!? "JETSONS" CARTOON BECAUSE...

...I DID AN "AL BUNDY" IN MY SLEEP ON EARLY THURSDAY MORNING BEFORE I ACTUALLY WOKE UP AT 8:00am EASTERN/7:00am CENTRAL!!!!!

"This Shouldn't Happen to a British Stop-Motion Animated Flock of Sheep" says Bitzer the Dog

It was awful that "Kim Possible" has been replaced by an episode of "The Proud Family"?!?  HOW REVOLTING!!!! AND AS FOR "ROCK-A-DOODLE"... NOT A CHANCE, YOU NAUGHTY OXBERRY FOOLS!!!!!!  DON'T YOU REALIZE WHAT THOSE NEW OWNERS OF DISNEY-ABC DOMESTIC TELEVISION GROUP HAS DONE TO "KIM POSSIBLE"?!?!?!?

And I was like to Tom the Cat for "dozing off like a log" after I looked at the Disney Channel scheduled and it turned out that an episode of "The Proud Family" has been scheduled for Thursday, October 1st, 2015 to replace "Kim Possible" episode "And the Mole Rat would be CGI"; "TOM, YOU NO-GOOD STUPID CAT! YOU OUGHTA BE ASHAMED!! HAVING THAT DISNEY CHANNEL CARTOON BASED ON THAT "RAPUNZEL" MOVIE TOP THE CHARTS AGAINST RERUNS OF "KIM POSSIBLE"?! WHAT A HORRID IDEA!!! I BLAME THAT 'FROZEN' MOVIE TRILOGY FOR PLOTTING THEIR DIRTY DEED TO GIVE OLD SCHOOL AMERICAN 2D HAND-DRAWN ANIMATION "THE BOOT" OUT OF HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A. UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!!!!!"

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Signed,

MICHAEL A. IGAFO-TE'O - Autistic Animation Hobbyist since 2007

P.S., Curse You, Prince Hans of The Southern Isles!!!!

2nd P.S., Happy BELATED 21st Birthday to Michael Igafo-Te'o!

My Birthday is Coming Up Soon!

CREATED on Monday, September 7th, 2015 at 2:56pm

Michelle Finkle in John Kricfalusi's animation style
(Notice the "no inside breast line" rule on drawing Michelle Finkle in this style,
as mentioned on the model sheet within the actual 2D vector drawing!)

We Have Less than 2 Days 'til My 21st Birthday on September 9th, 2015 and, yes, I Will post an entire blog post containing nearly all of my photos on my 21st Birthday the day after that on September 10th, 2015 (or later or earlier?) for "animator's sake"!!!

Before I Woke up from my After-Breakfast Nap on Monday, September 7th, 2015, I Had a vision that my mother, Jackie Igafo-Te'o, is telling me that 2D hand-drawn animation is coming back thanks to the help of animators like James Lopez and Andreas Deja!!!

MORAL:
Never Cry "Ape" because It was REALLY A JOKE!!!

Also, I was SO disgustedly offended that Noah Z. Jones' "Pickle and Peanut" REPLACED "PHINEAS AND FERB" AND I HATED NOAH Z. JONES' "ALMOST NAKED ANIMALS" SHOW FOR ITS PARODIES ON EXPLICIT SEXUAL CONTENT, ANTHROPOMORPHIC CARTOON ANIMALS IN THEIR "UNDER-CLOTHES" AND, OH NO!!! "PICKLE AND PEANUT" TOPPED THE CHARTS AND CANCELLED PHINEAS AND FERB'S SHOW AND WHY IT GOT SO BAD, I MUST'VE THOUGHT I'LL NEVER SHOW MY FACE AT WALT DISNEY WORLD RESORT IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA...   UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!!!

AND FURTHERMORE,...

Meet Six Members of my "Disney Infinity" Figurine Collection!
(From Left to Right; Sorcerer Mickey and Vanellope von Schweetz and Donald Duck
and Phineas Flynn-Fletcher and Princess Anna and Hiro Hamada)

I Almost Forgot to say to myself "Happy Two Days Early 21st Birthday, Michael!"

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P.S., IF Any Comments About My FIRST-EVER "September 2015" Blog Post, Please Respond!

:)

A Petition for Bringing 2D Hand-Drawn Animation Back to the BIG Screen...

CREATED on Saturday, August 8th, 2015 at 3:30 P.M.

Bancy McMouser and a Hand-Built Animation Desk (Notice the "FAX-Richardson" Animation Disc!)

I'm So Happy to Post This on August 2015 because I'm happy to announce the petition to have Disney try adapting a fairy tale, called "East of the Sun, West of the Moon", as a 2D traditional hand-drawn animated musical feature film and, yes 2D hand-drawn animation lovers everywhere, IT will come back to the big screen since you're all not in the mood for that cancer between 3D computer animation and 2D hand-drawn animation anymore!

In Order to Sign That Petition, Click Here, Please!

HERE'S A LINK TO A VIDEO ON VIMEO --

Remember the day that Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida was celebrating its glory days from 1989 until 2004?

Signed,

MICHAEL A. IGAFO-TE'O

P.S., IF Any Comments about This Blog Post after signing my Petition, Please Respond

More Cel Paintings for Kelsey for July 2015

CREATED on Wednesday, July 15th, 2015 at 10:20 P.M.

Dear Animation Lovers of My Blogger Page,

I Have to Confess about SOME COMMISSION for My Brother's Girlfriend, Kelsey Ilene-Cummings,...

...Kelsey wanted a Cel Painting of Ariel from Disney's "The Little Mermaid" for her roommate at her new apartment and, before I'll start working on THAT CEL, I Did start with a FREE GIFT for Kelsey to go with her roommate's cel of "Ariel", this time, of Mike Patterson and Michelle Finkle (two of my original cartoon creations) in "Archie Comics" form but at the Mouser City beach in Mouser City, Missouri, U.S.A. which "Mouser City, Missouri" is actually made up in my creative-yet-cartoony imagination! (see iOS picture below for "animator's sake"!)

My FREE GIFT for Kelsey Ilene-Cummings (A Cel Painting of Mike and Michelle in
"Archie Comics" form at the Beach) as a FREE companion to go with her
apartment roommate's $20 cel painting commission of Ariel from "The Little Mermaid"
(notice the background behind the characters is actually done in a well-blended combination of
Faber-Castell black PITT artist pen for the outlines, color pencils (BROWN for the sandy landscape
LIGHT GREEN for the grass, YELLOW and RED for the sunshine) and Art Markers
(RED for the "red stripe" part of the lighthouse, YELLOW for the "yellow light" at the light house,
BLUE for the water and the small clouds and GREEN for the bushes surrounding the light house
and other bushes ready-planted side-by-side of the sandy entrance to the light house!)

I Did Start the Cel Painting of "Archie Comic"-style Mike and Michelle at the beach with the outline sketch of the background (shown in color above) then I placed a clean sheet of 12-Field ACME-Punched animation paper over the background sketch done in Faber-Castell PITT Artist Pen ink and, well, I drew the rough drawings of Michelle's "Archie Comic" design in BLUE Col-Erase Pencil for the construction outline using the "full body" part of the "Betty Cooper" chapter of my MINT copy of the "Learn to Draw Archie and Friends" book and, well, after using my Blackwing pencil ("Half the Pressure, Twice the Speed") to tie down the construction outlines for both Mike (east) and Michelle (west) after finishing the "BLUE rough construction lines" for Mike and then, I placed a clear acetate sheet called a "cel" over the finished drawing and, yes, I traced the outlines onto the acetate sheet using a crow-quill fountain pen filled with BLACK opaque, acetate-adhering India Ink and, after the ink is all dried up on the front of the acetate cel, I turned it over and painted it on the back of the cel using different colors of "animator's quick-drying vinyl house paints" (Actually, Cartoon Colour's top-quality "Cel-Vinyl" acrylic paints!!!) starting from Mike to Michelle and, well, after the paint is dried up on the back of the cel I colored the background using a blend of color pencils and art markers and, finally, the finished "free gift" for Kelsey is finally completed at last, well, to go with her roommate's $20 cel commission of Ariel from Disney's "The Little Mermaid" that is!

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Yours Sincerely,

MICHAEL "Mooter" AARON MA'ATUA IGAFO-TE'O

Founder, President, CEO, Hand-Drawn Animation Lover

and Animator with Autism at "Michael Igafo-Te'o Animation Studios"

P.S., See You in August 2015 but IF Any Comments about This Cel, Please Let Me Hear from You!

The ULTIMATE Sacrifice for My Trip Up North

CREATED on Saturday, July 4th, 2015 at 8:28 A.M.

UH OH!!!

"THIS IS MADNESS!" says Anger but, only this time, because I already saw Disney & PIXAR's "Inside Out" at Carmike Plaza Cinema 8 back on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015, I Was Told by Rachel Zaracki-Cummings that she and her family are seeing the "Minions" movie at Jackson 10 Cinema! (see "Uh Oh" poster to the actual "Minions" movie to your west, please!) So, after hearing from Rachel, I Decided that seeing "Inside Out" again will have to wait until it comes out on Blu-Ray Combo Pack and DVD on November 2015 because the "Minions" movie is MY back-up children's cinema title for my trip up north on the weekend of July 10th, 2015!

"And You May Think that these rumors about the Irish Wrestling Chicken were a bunch of BULL," says Foghorn Leghorn the Rooster, "but you were wrong when I was confronted by a REAL Irish wrestling chicken!" but, unfortunately, there's something I got to tell you on this blog post,...

CAUTION!!!: Never Trust A Super-villain!!!

I Was WRONG about the "Minions" movie being a "Kim Possible" knock-off because Bancy McMouser and I had unintentionally (falsely) accuse it for being a "Kim Possible" knock-off and, about that "Scarlet Overkill" person, (see meme above) I used to think that Scarlet was a "Sandra Bullock"-esq. 1968 Version of Shego but, NO!!! I WAS WRONG!! I WAS REALLY WRONG!!!

NEVER TRUST A SUPER-VILLAIN EVER!!!! YOU HEAR ME!!!!!!!

P.S., IF Any Comments About This Blog Entry, Please Let Me Hear From You!

Back from Missouri for Art's Sake!

Created on Friday, June 12th, 2015 at 12:34 A.M.

Joy, from Disney & PIXAR's "Inside Out", in Disney Infinity form.  Note that Joy in "Disney
Infinity" form has 4-fingered hands (3 Fingers and A Thumb) besides her actual animated
movie counterpart having 5-fingered hands (4 Fingers and A Thumb)

Guess What, Animation Fans of Blogger (and Blogspot) of all sorts,
I'M BACK FROM MY MISSOURI VACATION TRIP FOR ANIMATOR'S SAKE!!!  And, yes, After it turns out that My Mother, Jackie, purchased the last surviving three "Inside Out" Tsum Tsum plushies (Anger and Joy and Sadness) which finally arrived in the mail on Wednesday, June 10th, 2015 before I took them home with me on Thursday, June 11th, 2015 and, man, that vacation was Ex-CEL-ent! And, well, here's the list of What I Did for Fun by Date:
06-06-2015 - Arrive at Deanna's House in Jefferson City, MO
06-07-2015 - Celebrated Hunter Katona's 2nd Birthday at The Park's Picnic Tables with Coke Zero, Hot Dogs and Macaroni & Cheese and, yes, Sparkling Lemonade!!!
06/08/2015 - Visited my Grandparents in Waynesville, MO and, after such a problem with their internet being "slow", My Dad and I (then Uncle Billy and My Brother and Sister and Mom) paid for a 2-Night/1-Day Package at the Howard Johnsons hotel in Saint Robert, MO
06-09-2015 - Had Breakfast at a Denny's restaurant in Saint Robert, MO and went back to my Grandparents and, after hard times almost struck on me, we went back to the Howard Johnsons hotel for one last night there, this time, with a dinner of pepperoni pizza from Domino's with Diet Soda and, yes, Sparkling Red Grape Juice which is actually Red Grape Wine without Alcohol meaning that this so-called "Sparkling Red Grape Juice" drink is actually Non-Alcoholic and also Alcohol-free nor it will be Anti-Alcoholic!!!!
06-10-2016 - Last Day in Missouri at my Grandparents house around the same time that my little baby cousins, Ezrah and Zeke Brown, came to play with me and their mother, Angela Brown, and even my family and my Grandparents too!
06-11-2015 - My Three New Tsum Tsum Plushies, Anger and Joy and Sadness, Arrived in The Mail then we had a cook-out dinner at Grandpa Bill's "under-the-roof front yard patio"!
06-12-2015 - After Breakfast of Starbucks Coffee for everyone (including my Caramel Macchiato) and McDonald's breakfast for Me and Dad (One Sausage McMuffin for Dad and One Plain Scrambled Egg-and-Cheese McGriddle (without the sausage) with matching Hash Brown for Me!) and packing up all of our belongings, (as well as souvenirs from Missouri and a photo portrait of Ezrah and Zeke Brown!!!) after a well-paid lunch at Burger King and a crazy minivan ride home (with an inbetween rest area break with matching RC Cola (short for "Royal Crown Cola") and a to-go snack of Keebler Fudge Graham Cookies) and we celebrated our success of the Missouri trip (as well as some mistakes including the great "Tsum Tsum FAIL" accident - thanks to my hatred on that @$*%!? "Kim Possible" cartoon) with a belated dinner of Little Caesars pizza and Diet Soda under the "Pepsi" brand with matching "Crazy Bread" breadsticks on late Friday Night!!!
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I'm Glad that This Vacation I've Posted On My "Animation Stuff and MORE!" Blog is my way of expressing my happiness (and a little sadness) about my vacation trip to Missouri!
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Yours Sincerely,
MICHAEL A. IGAFO-TE'O

P.S., IF Any Comments about This "Welcome Home" Blog Post, Please Let Me Hear from You!

My Reaction to Phineas and Ferb Ending Their Show

Created on Sunday, May 31st, 2015 at 11:16 AM

"A SEA MONSTER ATE MY ICE CRE-EE-EE-EAM!!!"
-- Scrooge McDuck from the "DuckTales" episode entitled "Whale of a Bad Time"

I Found Out that not only that there will be an 73-Hour "Phineas and Ferb" Marathon on Disney XD but it will also end with the 1-Hour Series Finale episode entitled "The Last Day of Summer" and, starting on Autumn 2015, that new hit Disney XD cartoon entitled "Future-Worm!" will replace "Phineas and Ferb" and...

...I HATE "THE JETSONS" BECAUSE OF @$*%!? "FUTURE-WORM!" REPLACING "PHINEAS AND FERB" ON AUTUMN 2015 UNAWARE THAT PHINEAS AND FERB'S CREATORS, DAN POVENMIRE AND JEFF "Swampy" MARSH ARE WORKING ON A NEW DISNEY TV CARTOON HIT ENTITLED "MIKEY MURPHY'S LAW"!!!!!

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Signed,

MICHAEL A. IGAFO-TE'O

P.S., IF Any Comments about This Blog Post, Please Let Me Hear from You!

DISHONOR!!! A Cartoon WHODUNIT Situation

Created on Saturday, May 30th, 2015 at 12:08 PM

"THAT OVERSEAS ANIMATION vs. AMERICAN ANIMATION RIVALRY MUST CEASE TO A PERMANENT END," claimed Bancy, "I'VE HAD ENOUGH WITH THIS MADNESS!!!"

Here's My Interview, this time, with Bancy McMouser and Toby Ratwaller and, yes, Curdie!:

ME - Bancy, What's Eating You These Days???

BANCY - Whatever Just Happened to those Hungarian animators is because [gasps in horror] Disney's "The Lion King" OUTGROSSED THAT "Princess and the Goblin" FILM IN AMERICAN THEATERS BACK ON JUNE 1994 AND ENOUGH IS ENOUGH AND FURTHERMORE...

CURDIE - Uh, Mr. Green Mouse?

BANCY - Who Are You and What Have You Done with Mike Patterson?!

CURDIE: It's Me; Curdie, an old friend from your past!

BANCY - Uh Oh! I'm In Deep Sludge and It's Because of That... That... So-Called Other Film from America which Disney, and those film critics including Leonard Maltin, claimed it as "The Most Highest-Grossing Traditionally Animated Feature Film of 1994"!

TOBY - But, Cousin Bancy, Those Disney Animators Can't Do That! They're Too Valuable for Disney Executives like John Lasseter and formerly Michael Eisner

BANCY - SHUT UP, TOBY!!!

TOBY - WHAT?!

BANCY - COUSIN TOBY, I THOUGHT THAT CURDIE WAS GONE FOREVER IT'S BECAUSE OF THAT EVIL SCAR AND HIS HYENA HENCH-ANIMALS!!!!

TOBY - Oh, God, Help Us!!!

ME - Alright, Boys, Enough! Let This "Old Friend" of yours talk this over with us calmly!

TOBY - Okay!

BANCY - Don't Hurt Me...  I Surrender!

ME - He's not gonna hurt you!

TOBY - He's Here to Talk to You about Our Lives back in '94 when we were Young Rodents!

BANCY - Aw, Drat! Michael,... Release the Flashback from my DVD Copy of its former VHS Camcorder-recorded self!

ME - Okay... [I Put The DVD containing Bancy's "1994" Past after was plotted from its own VHS Tape to the computer and became a DVD of itself then, Even though It's STILL IN COLOR LIKE ITS FORMER VHS TAPE SELF!!!]

[We See VHS Camcorder-recorded footage of Bancy as a 3-1/2 Year Old Mouse wanting to see that "Princess and the Goblin" movie but,...]

CURDIE - This is Bancy as a young 3-1/2 year old toddler...

[...Unfortunately, the film was immediately sold out to make room for "The Lion King" as little 3-1/2 year old Toby was bawling his tears...]

CURDIE - This is Toby, the same age as Bancy, but after My film was sold out for... The Highest Grossing Traditionally Animated Feature Film of 1994...

BANCY - OH NO!

3-1/2 YEAR OLD BANCY [on the video] - Oh, No! What has those Disney animators done to that film [starts bawling his tears out as he and 3-1/2 year old Toby mourn for their "failure"]

CURDIE - This is You and Toby's reaction to your thought that I was dead but...

BANCY'S MOM [on the video] - Mrs. Ratwaller, why is you son and my son both crying?

TOBY'S MOM - [on the video] I Dunno! Maybe that "Princess and the Goblin" movie was sold out for "The Lion King" and They must've thought that Curdie got killed!

[Suddenly, after hearing from Toby's mother He and his cousin Bancy burst into fresh fountains of tears as their mothers take then home but, luckily, the sad part cuts off and we now see Bancy and his Cousin Toby already happy to see "The Princess and the Goblin" on VHS Tape as they root for Curdie as he fights off Froglip, the Goblin King's son]

CURDIE - ...This is you rooting for me finishing off Froglip...

3-1/2 YEAR OLD BANCY - [in the video] C'mon, Curdie! Finish Off That Evil Monstrosity!

3-1/2 YEAR OLD TOBY - Oh No! Somebody do something to get rid of that Goblin menace!

[In the video, Froglip was about to "destroy" Curdie but, luckily, Princess Irene, who was holding onto the rock for safety, clobbers Froglip's foot with her own fist and Froglip screams in pain after feeling his foot being clobbered by Irene's fist then Froglip along with and the Goblin King and Goblin Queen fall down a waterfall to their death]

CURDIE - And That's My Beloved Princess Irene saving my life!

BANCY and TOBY - [watching the video from their childhood] Close Call for you, Isn't It?

CURDIE - Thank You kind, boys, for you Comment!

BANCY and TOBY - You're Welcome, Curdie!

[The Video shuts off after the 1994 montage ends]

ME - There, Boys, That was quite a memory, was it?

BANCY - Of Course! We Both Felt Much Better after such a flashback video! Right, Toby!

TOBY - Of Course!

What's Left of this Interviewing Blog Post of April 2015 is actually Mike Patterson, one of my "BancyToon Superstars", dressed up as Curdie in honor of The Previous "Overseas Animator Appreciation Day" in 2015 and Next Year's "Overseas Animator Appreciation Day" on 2016!

THE END!

P.S., Remember Animation Fans of America and Canada, Coming to Cinemas on June 19th, 2015 is Disney & PIXAR's "Inside Out" and on August 7th, 2015 is the American-Canadian premiere of Aardman Animations' "Shaun the Sheep Movie"!!!

CURSES, AARDMAN!! My Sad Dream

Created on Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 at 6:58 A.M.

HELP!...    SOMEBODY?...  ANYBODY...

Last Night, I Had This HORRIBLE DREAM where My Dad, after hearing about the bad times I've had during May 2015, punished me by not going to see that new PIXAR movie entitled "Inside Out" and, I made my escape from Dad's punishment on me! While I tried to buy the tickets to "Inside Out" with my own money, I've entered a lot of cartoonish obstacles along the way --

1. I Karate-Chopped My OLD 4x3 Standard T.V. (now in Mom's Bedroom) using An Old-Time Cartoon Mallet

2. I Was Given A Bottled Purified Water To Go served for FREE by a person who owns a Truck containing crates of Bottled Purified Water

and 3. I've snuck into the theater auditorium to see "Inside Out" by using the secret entrance; An ADULT-Sized Tube Slide from The Top of The Multiplex Cinema's Building connected from a Target superstore to The Cinema Itself!

But, After What I Saw after finally entering the multiplex was Riley coming back home to her parents in San Francisco when she says to a bus driver "STOP! I WANNA GO HOME!" who'd gladly stops by her San Francisco home where her parents were sad of what they did to ground her was WRONG, I Missed It when the closing credits came on after Joy and Sadness' reunion with Disgust, Fear and Anger and, OH NO! I Was Bawling My Tears Out after I've Found Out that "Inside Out" was SOLD OUT for "Shaun the Sheep" Movie and, suddenly, Tom and Jerry, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse and Donald Duck and Daisy Duck, Goofy Goof and Max Goof and, oh no, even Joy and Sadness were all feeling sorry for my failure as I mourn for my loss for that new PIXAR movie and It Was Awful that I Woke Up Crying!

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Signed,

MICHAEL A. IGAFO-TE'O

P.S., IF Any Comments About This Blog Post, Please Respond!

The Ultimate Sacrifice for something SHORT...

UPDATED on Monday, May 18th, 2015 at 8:20 PM

Michael Igafo-Te'o (Me on the west side)  meeting my DeviantArt/Facebook Buddy,
Andrew Steiner, (on the east side) in person during The 2013 O.U. Cares Christmas Party at
Oakland University in Oakland County, Michigan - Circa Winter 2013.

I'm SO Sorry about This Problem with making a feature film adapted from the "Princess and Curdie" story because...

...I FAILED!! I'M SORRY!!!

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I am Announcing that we have to do something short like an 8-minute short film, not a feature film, this time, of my second "Bancy and Company" cartoon entitled "Adam and Amy that Came to Lunch"!  --  I Know You Have Feelings for reviving Traditional Hand-Drawn Animation after the production of James Lopez's "Hullabaloo" steampunk films and Andreas Deja's film "Mushka" and, yes, I have decided to do an 8-minute "Bancy and Company" cartoon entitled "Adam and Macy that came to Lunch" as Mr. Krabs' whale of a teenage daughter Pearl, from "SpongeBob SquarePants", would say in amazement: "TOTALLY CORAL!"

A Photo of my "Prototype" Animation Desk which is actually an Alan Gordon animation drafting table that I bought from the "B&H Photo and Video" store's online catalogue on Summer 2013 complete with 12-Field Black Acrylic PRO-GRADE Animation Disc that I bought from Cartoon Colour around Christmas 2012. (Notice the "Hidden Mickey" below the bottom peg bar on my 12-Field PRO-GRADE Animation Disc)

As my general update on "Adam and Amy that Came to Lunch":

I'll work on the "story treatment" to my 8-Minute hand-drawn animated "Bancy" cartoon for "animator's sake" between Early Autumn 2015 to Spring 2016. Notice that there will be some changes going on with the actual digital story reel/animatic that I'll work on using this digital storyboarding software called "Toon Boom Storyboard Pro" with my "scratch track" voices.

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As I am planning to get into full production on my 8-Minute hand-drawn animated "Bancy" cartoon, entitled "Adam and Amy that Came to Lunch", I am looking for local Michigan 2D animation artists.
- Two Animators, experienced or new - But with high standards.
- Three Inbetweeners, experienced or new - But with high standards.
- Three Clean-Up animators, experienced or new - But with high standards
- One Color Model cel painter for references on Digital Ink & Paint, experienced or new - But with high standards
- One Background painter, experienced or new - But with high standards
- One Animation/B.G. scanners, (people that scan animators' drawings and background paintings for "animator's sake"!) experienced or new- But with high standards.
- One Digital Ink & Paint artist that use "DigiCel FlipBook" and/or "Toon Boom Harmony" - experienced or new - But with high standards.
- Interns

If you are in Michigan and is interested in this idea of an 8-minute hand-drawn animated "Bancy" cartoon, leave your email, and I'll respond.  My mother (Jackie Igafo-Te'o) and I won't be able to pay studio rates but we WILL both pay independent film $ when we save up the money after building my NEW animation desk as well as "restoring" my studio apartment dubbed "Michael Igafo-Te'o Animation Studios"!