I'm so old I Remember when:

[Nomadicus]

This is way before my time, but did y'all ever see something like this?
Is it a puppet show, 3-D animation, or both?
https://archive.org/details/mother_goose_little_miss_muffet

I believe it is a hand drawn animation like the original Disney cartoons were. How they photographed it in 3D is beyond my understanding.

 

[Nomadicus]

I remember Walt Disney showing how cartoons were hand drawn on Mylar in tiny increments to show motion from the movie projectors back in the 50's.

 

[Nomadicus]

I remember a popular saying among the adults from the 50's and 60's was "It's getting harder and harder to keep up with the Jones's."

 

[Sally PB]

And then I remember thinking, Just who are these Joneses, anyway? And why should I care if I keep up with them?

 

[Hayden Goseek]

And then I remember thinking, Just who are these Joneses, anyway? And why should I care if I keep up with them?

I feel like I've spent most of my life keeping up with the Waltons.

 

[Evadig]

And then I remember thinking, Just who are these Joneses, anyway? And why should I care if I keep up with them?

We actually knew an older couple named Jones. When I first heard that phrase, I was like, why do we need to keep up with the Joneses? They can hardly walk!

 

[EmmaDonovan]

This is way before my time, but did y'all ever see something like this?
Is it a puppet show, 3-D animation, or both?
https://archive.org/details/mother_goose_little_miss_muffet

That's stop-motion animation. It's a series of individually photographed frames of posable figurines (sort of like action figures) that are physically changed in small increments so it appears they are moving when the frames are played back.

There were several popular stop-motion animation Christmas tv specials in the 60s and 70s: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970), The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974), Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976), Jack Frost (1979), etc. I loved those as a kid and looked forward to them every year. Still do.

Stop-motion animation was a hobby of mine in elementary school. The school had the facilities for making stop-motion animated films and some friends and I made Western-themed films using paper cut-outs of Western town figures. Lots of fun!

 

[EmmaDonovan]

I remember Walt Disney showing how cartoons were hand drawn on Mylar in tiny increments to show motion from the movie projectors back in the 50's.

Disney elevated hand-drawn animation to a true art form. I've seen one of the original prints of Sleeping Beauty (1959). It is extraordinary. They created a 3D effect in 2D animation by aiming a camera down through multiple layers of painted glass. They pioneered so much.

I'm just going to say it: I hate computer animation. I find the character faces particularly weird and unnerving (talking about you, Toy Story). Computer animation has ruined the art of animation.

 

[Evadig]

Stop-motion animation was a hobby of mine in elementary school. The school had the facilities for making stop-motion animated films and some friends and I made Western-themed films using paper cut-outs of Western town figures. Lots of fun!

It sounds like it! I'd love to do something like that!

I'm just going to say it: I hate computer animation. I find the character faces particularly weird and unnerving (talking about you, Toy Story). Computer animation has ruined the art of animation.

I don't watch anything made past 1965ish.

 

[notabitail]

That's stop-motion animation. It's a series of individually photographed frames of posable figurines (sort of like action figures) that are physically changed in small increments so it appears they are moving when the frames are played back.

There were several popular stop-motion animation Christmas tv specials in the 60s and 70s: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964), Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970), The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974), Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976), Jack Frost (1979), etc. I loved those as a kid and looked forward to them every year. Still do.

Stop-motion animation was a hobby of mine in elementary school. The school had the facilities for making stop-motion animated films and some friends and I made Western-themed films using paper cut-outs of Western town figures. Lots of fun!

I used to make stop motions. I stopped doing it since it was too much effort for 30 seconds of shoddy animation.