Bill Plympton:
Plympton uses extremely strange proportions and scribbly lines to draw characters in a comic-like way, traditionally using warped perspectives on the rooms and environments around the characters. He often times reuses frames like in his animated short, "Cheatin'" in which his character repeatedly pulls out ridiculously long weapons from a set of draws. In this animation Plympton reuses the initial pulling reaching into the draws frames but has two sets of animations one going in one draw and the other from the other draw, and he alternates between the two.
Another traditional animator, who works with greyscale and colour pencils, rendering each frame for a paper stop motion animation. In Richard's animation 'Prologue' it features many characters with each frame realistically shaded, with pencils only. I found his work pretty incredible. I've tried animating traditionally on paper before, I can't even fathom the amount of time and work went into that animation alone. I also noticed in this particular animation he uses some regular filming to set the scene and show the amount of paper going into this animation. I noticed in this animation too that when he adds colour he seems to only add it to parts of characters that are maybe more crucial to the characters personality or background, like the emblem on their shields or their eyes. He also made 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' and 'Pink Panther' in which were all hand painted, drawn frames in 1s. Except in 'Roger Rabbit' he added his characters to real life scenes with real actors.
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