The Art of UPA (Part 2 of 3)

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“When I die, I don't want to go to Heaven. I want to go to UPA.” - Friz Freleng
(Part 2 of 3)
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When Magoo Flew: The Rise and Fall of Animation Studio UPA by Adam Abraham - amzn.to/2TNyMOr
Cartoon Vision: UPA, Precisionism, and American Modernism by Dan Bashara - bit.ly/2SJSpph
The Language of Vision by Gyorgy Kepes - amzn.to/2GahNTy
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@NateandNoahTryLife 5 лет назад

Part of what I love about UPA is that you know it when you see it. They’ve seared their imagery onto my brain: simple enough to be instantly recognizable, complex enough to reveal new things on every watch through. Thank you dedicating the videos to this they’ve been some of your best!

@bobveltman 5 лет назад

but don’t you do this with most other studios? i do ...

@MissJazzDaFunk 5 лет назад

I nut at the sight of midcentury animation styles. I hope to bring it back someday.

@Any-mation 5 лет назад

Please do

@ChristopherSobieniak 5 лет назад

I would too!

@paulod27 5 лет назад

I want to as well.

@PogieJoe 5 лет назад

It's already coming back subtly in a lot of kids cartoons because the simple designs allow more room to work on the scenery and technical stuff!

@maddchem0153 5 лет назад

MissJazzDaFunk Please do. You work on your end and produce some of these awesome masterpieces for our era and I will also on my end. I’m really bored with today’s animation industry, so much technology going to waste the old guys didn’t have what we do and they did so much more and it rivals today’s works. I was surprised to know how little today’s industry animator knows until I spoke with Aaron Blaise. I’m glad to have been born in 1969 I got to enjoy so much amazing animations.

@noahboat580 5 лет назад

I always wondered what that art form is. I never thought UPA animation had such a interesting history

@brebytheway 5 лет назад

tbh I'd never even heard of UPA until this series 😅

@matheus5230 3 года назад

@@brebytheway Aside of animation fans, their cartoons are obscure for modern audiences, which doesn't detract their value of course.

@mebamme 5 лет назад

3:31 imagine if they hired Bill Wurtz instead.

@gmosphere 5 лет назад

I think bill wurtz's style of limited animation and short punchy delivery would have gelled well with the guys at upa.

@brebytheway 5 лет назад

I immediately thought of Bill Wurtz too lol 😂

@InsertCleverNameHere0 2 года назад

Ths first thing I think of when looking at these cartoons is that I see so much of these ideas at play in Schoolhouse Rock, especially in the varying styles of their shorts. Undoubtedly, they were massively influenced by UPA's work.

@kieranczyzyk5264 5 лет назад

I keep thinking about how frustrated these guys would be at the rise of the idea tbat "smooth animation = good animation"

@icecreamhero2375 5 лет назад

Smooth doesn't automatically= good. Funny =good. Also animation that property captures the characters emotions that is subtle when it needs to be and over the top when it needs to be. Also following physics at all times unless you are doing a visual joke.

@thesensur6214 5 лет назад

icecream hero ...no tho Like no There are no rules that’s the point.. I don’t wanna watch a bunch of characters stand around on the ground but that is technically “Following the laws of physics”. If animation makes no sense but it’s still fun to watch then so be it. If you make a character bend the rules of physics to lean on a non-existent table in an otherwise casual conversation then sure. If you make an object disappear mid scene in the background for no reason and it looks cool, sure. If it looks interesting it doesn’t matter how accurate to real world anatomy or physics it is That’s why animation is so unique.

@MonthlyDoseOfGacha78 2 года назад

@@icecreamhero2375 No rules icecream hero, that's what makes animation so special you can do WHATEVER you want!

@icecreamhero2375 2 года назад

@@MonthlyDoseOfGacha78 True but it's a know the rules before you break them type of thing.

@MonthlyDoseOfGacha78 2 года назад

@@icecreamhero2375 Lol following steps to be a better rule breaker

@sierra3644 5 лет назад

i could listen to you talk about UPA forever

@AJ627 5 лет назад

You can thank Ward Kimbal for taking influence from UPA into his shorts. However, Walt Disney Hated the idea and restricted that style from being used in later cartoons

@jacquesca 5 лет назад

Ward Kimbal was a legend in all regards.

@schizoidboy 5 лет назад

His work was very evident in the episodes of the World of Disney particularly their episodes with Man In Space and the episodes about Mars.

@BlazeHeartPanther 5 лет назад

He was Disney's most Un-Disney animator going more for his silly and kooky animations. That's how he landed gigs like the god of wine Bacchus in the Pastoral Symphony in Fantasia or the crows in Dumbo

@russiankfc2533 4 года назад

BlazeHeartPanther Blaze *Ward kimball, The Tex Avery of Disney*

@geoffreyrichards6079 10 месяцев назад

Ward was on pretty good terms with his boss, and it’s pretty evident that Walt had plenty of faith in him to green-light these projects, even if he personally despised the style. It’s just a shame their attempts to translate Mickey Mouse into the UPA style ended up backfiring, with the angry letters accusing the studio of becoming communists being kinda the death-nail for their further attempts. In the end, they ended settling on a style that was very much in-between the minimalist UPA style and their signature fluid realism.

@miss-astronomikal-mcmxcvii 6 месяцев назад

UPA’s rendition of the Tell-Tale Heart will NEVER NOT BE one of the most depressing animation works I have ever seen in my entire life. Just the very intro to the cartoon is haunting.

@paul329869 3 месяца назад

Well, originally, it was supposed to be in 3-D, see?

@g1sunstreaker584 11 дней назад

These essays are absolutely immaculate. I'm in love with the way the editing, pacing, can script match the theme of the content you're covering. 12 minutes just felt like an hour of magic!!

@gamepopper101 5 лет назад

I didn't know Mr Magoo was done by UPA. Also teasing their downfall a second time in a row... good one.

@AgsmaJustAgsma 5 лет назад

Fun fact: Friz Freleng, the man quoted at the beginning of the video, got his wish half-granted when his animation company co-produced a Mr. Magoo TV series alongside UPA in the 1970s.

@GarretRB 5 лет назад

Gamepopper101 what are you the animation downfalll reference police?

@yunisverse 5 лет назад

Absolutely adoring this series. I love seeing the names of oft-forgotten titans in animation history celebrated! Walt was very vocal in disliking the trend of limited animation and minimalism that UPA inspired... but luckily for the animators under him, who still thought it was stylish as heck, Walt was too distracted trying to put Disneyland together to oversee their work very closely, so they got to have fun sneaking it past him. Most of it was in the shorts, but you can even see it in the aesthetic of Sleeping Beauty.

@matheus5230 3 года назад

The aesthetic of Sleeping Beauty was a deliberate attempt by Walt Disney himself to break from the Disney style, though not in a UPA way.

@ethgray9350 5 лет назад

This video is masterfully edited and one of the most compelling art/ animation history videos I’ve ever seen! Can’t wait for part 3!

@ShotDrawnCut 5 лет назад

Glorious! As an animation artist and UPA fan this is the best! Looking forward to the final part

@megamanfan3 4 года назад

Disney trivia: Elements of Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom were used for the intro for their various Sing-a-Long Songs videos.

@MonsieurMosca 5 лет назад

This series is pure gold. Thanks for reminding me about UPA. I’ve been obsessed lately with the work of Total Television (Tennessee Tuxedo, the King and Odie) , which started as an advertising hybrid, but evolved into some of the most fascinating stuff I watched in my early childhood.

@butchdeadlift10 5 лет назад

2:11 1938 disney is a different animal from 1945 Disney. Same goes for 1955, 1965, 1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, and 2015. About 2 of those eras UPA would approve of. But only two (shrug).

@Yensid951927 4 года назад

Part of what I've heard about Toot Whistle Plunk Boom was that it was more of a Ward Kimbell project than a Disney project. Walt was adamantly against UPA for both rejecting his studio's form and having most of the artists that strike against him. Ward was probably the few animators that could go wild at the studio but was told by Walt after TWPB that there would be "no more of this UPA c@*p"

@mechajay3358 4 года назад

Wow, that's even more ironic. Ward was against UPA, but still made animations in a style similar to theirs. Not at all surprised by Walt's reaction though.

@throwtea 2 месяца назад

6:32 - 8:35 i love this background music. I want this song.

@augustinlacroix6438 5 лет назад

Your edition and production quality is a-m-a-z-i-n-g... take notes other video-essayists.

@OnlyLeigh 5 лет назад

Can't wait for part 3!

@jobymageean 4 месяца назад

I honestly think this is my favourite video on the Internet.

@MrAnymotion 5 лет назад

Thanks so much for these videos! Love how all this carried on to the motion design industry that we see today, the minimalism, clarity, precision, the color... the animated transition, the morphs. Who needs cuts, and cinematography language that wee see in disney animation.

@vitod7425 5 лет назад

Love all the videos man, but this series takes the cake for most influential. Like these are all cartoons I watched as a kid but with the added context and history, you’re totally blowing my mind.

@smoage 5 лет назад

As a professional animator and a lifelong student of animation this is the first i've heard of kepes! Thank you!

@paufff 4 года назад

I've never liked this style, but I respect what they tried to do and it helped a lot of artists which I admire

@matheus5230 3 года назад

Well, UPA didn't have a single style. After all, there are many ways a thing can be minimalism, one of their philosophies. I think you dislike the very core of such philosophies.

@CalebNorman 5 лет назад

This is awesome! It's really interesting seeing the comparison between this style and the trends of modern animation. Can't wait for the next video.

@Ekiverin 5 лет назад

Oh my god, this is gold. Incredible work, Andrew!

@marcus1992000 4 года назад

Man you should be proud of yourself, I search upa on google and you are the first thing that appears,amazing production values(music choice and video editing superb) thanks for promoting this awesome movement

@jaguartony 5 лет назад

Absolutely stunning and very iluminating work. Thanks, Royal Ocean.

@jisims95 5 лет назад

0:08 Correction: It was Bob Clampett who created Tweety (back in 1942's "A Tale of Two Kitties") not Friz Freleng. Friz's first Tweety cartoon was "Tweetie Pie" in 1947.

@ericghildyal5418 5 лет назад

Excellent, you're producing the highest quality video essays out there by far!

@superiormansex2011 5 лет назад

Thank you for researching this! It's so fascinating. You're editing skills make it very interesting to watch.

@LegoandmoviereviewsBlogspot 5 лет назад

Great video! Can't wait for part 3!

@thekidkrow 5 лет назад

This was delightful in ways I can't even begin to articulate due to my lacking vocabulary. Thank you for this. I'm lookimg foward to part 3.

@PogieJoe 5 лет назад

Thank you for this incredible running tribute. Maybe the best stuff you've done.

@smalltalk.productions9977 5 лет назад

absolutely wonderful! you always do really interesting, thought provoking pieces but this UPA series might be your finest work. thank you for the effort and the sharing. i am a very satisfied subscriber. BIG thumbs up.

@DerpDerp3001 2 месяца назад

Basically Richard Williams had a similar philosophy, but possibly the complete opposite approach, instead of limited animation, he went for maximalist animation.

@AgsmaJustAgsma 5 лет назад

-Friz Freleng (the guy who created all of them) [shows two characters that weren't created by Friz Freleng] Other than that, great second part.

@TheRoyalOceanFilmSociety 5 лет назад

Which ones do you mean? He either created or had a major hand in co-creating all five of them.

@samp.8099 5 лет назад

@@TheRoyalOceanFilmSociety He meant Tweety (Bob Clampett) and Speedy Gonzales (Bob McKimson)

@AgsmaJustAgsma 5 лет назад

@@TheRoyalOceanFilmSociety What Sam P. said. Friz Freleng redesigned Tweety after Clampett left Warner Bros and paired him with Sylvester. Freleng and Hawlley Pratt are credited for Speedy Gonzales' official design, but the character debuted in a short directed by McKimson. In short, yes, Freleng had a big input on these characters, but he's not the de facto creator of them. This is all just taking it in the literal sense, that's all.

@TheRoyalOceanFilmSociety 5 лет назад

@@AgsmaJustAgsma Fair enough - I came away reading the same info as I was writing this video and thought it'd be enough to justify calling Freleng their respective creators (or at least one of their creators) but maybe that was a mistake on my part.

@AgsmaJustAgsma 5 лет назад

@@TheRoyalOceanFilmSociety It still makes for an intriguing intro, regardless.

@BertieFett 5 лет назад

Great video can’t wait to see how it ends in part 3

@sethleoric2934 5 лет назад

Now i love detailed animation and down to earth(kind of) stuff but wow they did this in one of those ways yknow the ways where it works well

@mackyj7801 Год назад

editing, writing and animation of this series is amazing

@craigkdillon Год назад

What eloquent precise use of language to describe UPA. This is so well written. Full of insight. Most of all, full of love and admiration. Thank you.

@nkanyisoinnocentkhwane3752 5 лет назад

That's was really great, can't wait to implement some those techniques in my work

@laceystephens8800 5 лет назад

I love this series wow, You are brilliant.

@enkimerlin3209 4 года назад

man its awesome to see these gems I grew up watching given some proper respect !

@melasn9836 Год назад

I know this is very late to the game, but I just wanna say that it's SO great to finally see Fudget's Budget get some love.

@Waynimations 5 лет назад

Yesss a new upload after I finish all my animation finals!

@dcbandnerd 3 года назад

"The Need to Confess Artifice." I fukkin' feel that.

@EM-tp3tw 5 лет назад

beautiful vid!!! bruh this boldness is so inspiring

@Voldein 5 лет назад

Oh my this is great please keep doing it!

@simonaskalicanova1356 5 лет назад

I always wanted to research more about this style but I never knew what is it called or what name to pit in google. Now thanks to this great video I know! I love this animation so much

@chaeyoungvideos5742 3 года назад

one of my favourite videos you made

@d48731 5 лет назад

This series is great.

@teddyfurstman1997 5 лет назад

Awesome! Hope for More Videos about UPA, Please make Part 3 ^^

@burgesssam 5 лет назад

Thank you for this super fun education

@francescomanzo3939 5 лет назад

Great video.

@AirMan928 5 лет назад

These are fantastic

@aca9874 Год назад

Rooty Toot Toot is my favorite among the UPA films, it's like you said it's striking and bold

@ThroughtheLensProductions 5 лет назад

Absolutely bravo!

@killergoose7643 4 года назад

I think I just had an eyegasm

@mechajay3358 4 года назад

👀💦

@Vodhin 5 лет назад

More please!

@Deathbynature89 5 лет назад

10:00 Then Sony drops Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. It's so colourful.

@ibragimbotashev7572 5 лет назад

Thanks for the second part! P.S. As for me, BG music is a litttle bit too loud, hard to concentrate on the narrator's speech.

@WolfClant 5 лет назад

the french new wave was postmodern

@westonmeans7321 5 лет назад

Awesome.

@Montork 5 лет назад

8:46 oh shit. better not fuck with him. mr. magoos on a tear.

@kirbymarchbarcena 4 года назад

The way they draw the characters seem distinct

@motionmarketer4762 5 лет назад

Love it

@ericpatterson4248 9 месяцев назад

Madeline (1952). . . Takes me back. . .

@teddyfurstman1997 5 лет назад

I watch Gerald McBoing Boing when I was a kid when I got a VHS of all 4 UPA cartoons from Columbia Tristar Home Video as well as in 2012 when I got the TCM vault of UPA Jolly Frolics cartoons.

@johannymilord3371 3 года назад

I miss these old toons. 😢

@ferociousgumby 3 года назад

That music very nearly caused me to bail on this. Just HORRIBLE. It literally makes me break out in hives. SOOOOO many great YT videos are destroyed by obnoxious, intrusive music you can't sieve out, so you end up leaving.

@kooarchived 4 года назад

Maybe I should bring back colorful animations like they did back in the 50s and early 60s. Foster's Home and Prophet Buddy were probably the last cartoons to have this type of style.

@casperchristiansen2458 5 лет назад

No one draws women like Grim Natwick does.

@MelloCello7 4 года назад

Ummmm Instant Subscription?? The quality in this presentation is what i always wanted

@michaelp.9921 Год назад

(Actually, near the beginning, I thought it was Bob Clampett who originally created Tweety Bird...... 🤔 )

@variousthings6470 5 лет назад

Excellent video, but one pet peeve: 9:03 - Central tenets, not tenants.

@doctorteeth8895 5 лет назад

Great vid! Where did up Updike say that?

@worrywirt 5 лет назад

2:55 I know you tried but it’s *ɟørɟ* (dy-uhr-dy) Kepe-sh. Although I have to applaud your creativity 😂 “Yorgie”

@projp9057 5 лет назад

YES

@slothfulcobra Год назад

What's weird about UPA's methods of economy is that I feel like Japan developed its own methods of economy for animation that don't seem to match up at all with what UPA did, and when Japanese animation started jumping across the ocean, those new techniques changed a fair amount of the western animation world

@sethleoric2934 5 лет назад

Wow and to think i only thought minimalist stuff was extremely recent

@Yes-mx4dv 5 лет назад

Just some advice. The music you have in the background is very annoying when being played simultaneously with the music in the clips. Maybe some music from the decade would be more fitting?

@graphite2786 5 лет назад

Yep that's the only fault. I think it may have been an oversight during the audio editing by having 3 tracks running simultaneously. (Narration, Background music and clip soundtrack)

@WillScarlet16 5 лет назад

Um, 'Life Could be a Dream' and 'Mr. Sandman' ARE from that decade.

@jasonblalock4429 5 лет назад

@@WillScarlet16 They're talking about the electronica in the midsection which, yeah, was mixed too high and felt out of place in general.

@d-manthecaptain1382 5 лет назад

Great video, but You do understand that Friz didn't create Tweety or Speedy, right?

@FerdinandCesarano 3 года назад

This is a great film. BUt at 9:03, that should be "central **tenets^^".

@ZombieNaito 5 лет назад

Love the sereis man, just a question: do you think that the UPA style could be implemented to the more common 3D animation of our era?

@Vodhin 5 лет назад

Yes, it's possible. Look at Pixar's "For The Birds" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T63MCogI4sM.html - the character design is damn close (remove eye and feather detail) and the backgrounds are pretty simplistic (remove clouds or replace them with a simple whisp of white). It's not UPA but it's close enough that concept could be imagined from it.

@bricebricegb 5 лет назад

This is my goal as an animator

@takahashierik 5 лет назад

I don't think you could have something in 3D you could point your finger at and say "that looks like UPA!", simply because it's hard to make 3D animation that looks this stylistically challenging. You could, however, use UPA as an influence for simpler, more clear designs and colors for animation instead of chasing realism like we see so often today, and maybe create something new. When it comes to 2D animation on the other hand, you can easily see a lot of influence from these guys today in TV cartoons or indie movies.

@ZombieNaito 5 лет назад

@@takahashierik I guess this is why I really preffer 2D animation over 3D. Lately, I just can't get the boner for making animation that is too "realistic"

@leroypreston2973 11 месяцев назад

I think with CGI, it's hard to apply minimalism to it because it may appear different especially as we see things in various angles. How things look as a 2D drawing appear different than as a 3D image. Plus the details in CGI are to prevent uncanny valley. With minimalism now, I feel it would be written off as lazy. With people critical towards hanna barbera's limited animation doing what UPA did now for a series can get critiques of laziness and any claims of minimalism would come across as justifying laziness.

@leroypreston2973 11 месяцев назад

Unless you can do what Craig McCraken did for Foster's Home for imaginary friends and Powerpuff girls.

@skarlok1 5 лет назад

This music in the background is kinda annoying. Especially when 2 tracks are overlapping

@btylerparker 5 лет назад

I paused the video, thinking I accidentally had something else playing, it was so jarring.

@skarlok1 5 лет назад

@@btylerparker ye did that 2 times while watching :P

@EggBastion 4 года назад

The lo-fi stuff is simultaneously distracting and causing me to nap out. Maybe if it just wasn't so -prominent in the mix- _dang loud._

@4EyedAnimation 4 года назад

Check out the work of Raoul Dufy...greatly influenced Phil DeGuard and Maurice Noble

@RrR-xv4ij 2 года назад

Dude again fantastic work. You are. Fantastic story teller with a great voice. RU-vids Don Draper

@neonatalpenguin 5 лет назад

So what are the best UPA cartoons? Is there a list for beginners?

@takahashierik 5 лет назад

Royal Ocean has a list of UPA shorts online in the description of the trailer for this video series.

@monishsaikrishnakumar758 5 лет назад

I would very much like that ,as well

@kami3000 4 года назад

What's that song around the 7:00 mark? Also: very nice video.

@EggBastion 4 года назад

Dunno, but wouldn't mind finding out either.

@mgabrysSF 4 года назад

Found it - he sped up and pitch bended this track from French79 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lbb316gp78A.html

@kami3000 4 года назад

@@mgabrysSF Thank you very much!

@MPbmfm 5 лет назад

Please can anyone tell me what the cartoon with the Umpas is called?

@seanramsdell4172 5 лет назад

6:03 Ever saw the TV series?

@teddyfurstman1997 5 лет назад

Love the Madeline cartoons but never know this was the first Madeline cartoon from UPA.

@crystalcomedy1117 4 года назад

For one I love these videos, but I love your back ground music

@bobveltman 5 лет назад

i really like to learn about this! however, i am a bit confused. i think it’s because the pictures shown often have nothing to do with the narrative. for example: when u talk about a person contributing to the essence of UPA i want to know their age, hairstyle, ... i know u probably showed them before but like most humans need to hear a name and simultaneously see a face in order to recognize the connection. hope this helps. these videos are great nonetheless!