When you're animating a music video, you have to animate to some set music. You're somewhat restricted by that, but you're also inspired by that. The animation becomes secondary if you're animating to a music video. Either way, it's important. Music has really helped my animation, that's for sure.
John KricfalusiI influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.
John KricfalusiIf you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.
John KricfalusiKids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.
John KricfalusiSchools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.
John KricfalusiWhen you're animating a music video, you have to animate to some set music. You're somewhat restricted by that, but you're also inspired by that. The animation becomes secondary if you're animating to a music video. Either way, it's important. Music has really helped my animation, that's for sure.
John Kricfalusi