Thursday, March 29, 2018

Ducktales (1987) - S03E06 - Metal Attraction

In the Ducktales episode "Metal Attraction", Gyro Gearloose builds a robot maid, called Robotica, who falls in love with Gizmo Duck, since she believes him to be a 100% robot, just like her. And things become even more troublesome for Gizmo Duck's alter-ego, Fenton Crackshell, when he has to go on a double date, both as himself with his own girlfriend, Gandra Dee, and as Gizmo Duck with Robotica. So he has to move between being Fenton Crackshell and Gizmo Duck, without any of his dates knowing.

After the first commercial break, we find ourselves at Duckyland, where Gandra and Robotica wait for their dates to arrive. And while they wait, Robotica talks about how excited she is to go out on her first date with Gizmo Duck, claiming that her carburettor is racing with excitement, during which she performs a very strange likeness to a chest beating.


When I say it looks strange, what I mean is that she is actually beating her chest with two beats on each side. That means, two beats with the right fist, followed by two beats with the left fist. Which means, that the finished animation looks like this.


"It looks pretty weird, right?!"

But if you have an analytic eye for animation, like I do, and you know your way with a gif making software, like I do, you can actually turn this into a real Tarzan style chest beating, like this.


"Yeah, I am pretty good! Hehe!"





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