Animation References in Cuphead l King Dice's Dance I Animated History

[@topityblox3368]

Back when the first cartoons where made they had to hand draw every frame and that original of that clown is VERY IMPRESSIVE because it seems like a real person is dancing but with motion capture, but i think they traced pictures

[@marysmith9990]

That's what rotoscoping is, yes. Fleischer studios invented a whole new way to animate for their cartoons.

[@ShendonV]

Tracing over your own work to animate is literally normal.

[@python1972]

​@@ShendonVNo not their own work. They took photos of a professional dancer and traced over his poses and movements to animate realistic dancing

[@kiritomato4506]

@@python1972 They actually made whole videos of the dance. Then took every frame of it an animated them.

[@jono_high]

The rotoscoping they did in this episode of Betty Boop was so far ahead of what any other animation studio was doing at the time, even Disney. Cab Calloway was filmed performing St James Infirmary and animators subsequently traced over the film to create the effect, and the sheer realism it added to the character was unseen at that time. Honestly still looks incredible today. Calloway's hand movements are especially distinct in this particular film.

[@PrincessGalaxia9]

King Dice is practically Cab Calloway. He's HEAVILY based off of him.

[@saltypandaanimations2470]

Honestly I am quite a sucker for rotro scope in the animation industry, rotro scope is a technique used for capturing human movement by "tracing" commonly used back then by disney

[@opescadorbr2152]

Not Man. King Dice is a direct reference of the Cab Calloway, see your movies.

[@PoteGT]

Yes, but that dance move its a reference to this clown

[@iczift7373]

@@PoteGT And that dance move from the clown is based in a dance from Cab Calloway Himself

[@PoteGT]

​@@iczift7373exactamente

[@Pamela-dv7gb]

I totally agree,i watched cup head show and i really find that close to minnie the moocher.king dice is literally cab calloway

[@Autobotmatt428]

You could say Fleischer created the first animated music video

[@pencilsandpizza]

Oh my gouda

[@daviejz6698]

They did look up the Ko-Ko Song Car-tunes.

[@huesos_azules]

I'm still amazed they rotoscoped Cab Calloway turning into a gold chain

[@TheMasterBlaze]

It's more likely a reference to the Moves animated to "Minnie the Moocher" however, Cab Calloway's moves are absolutely Iconic. No matter the medium.

[@cherricok]

I thought king dice was gonna say imma scat man🤠

[@WM_Nonsense]

Your the guy from that one server

[@cherricok]

@@WM_Nonsense ?

[@PrincessGalaxia9]

skibidibidibidoo doh dum dope, du dum dum dope

[@PirateAdmiral-bx6sx]

I am glad I am not the only one who realized that

[@christianandkristopherandj5095]

I love the soundtrack good job on this

[@ezequiel9822]

A character: Walk*
This guy: Is a reference! 😲

[@joshuafuentesrangel]

cuphead esta basada en la animación de flesicher, por eso siempre se mueve todo lo que esta en la pantalla

[@minhojangg]

I learned my lesson of not to pause the cuphead show. The most goofy ahh freeze frams
Pause at 0:06

[@lihuenbaez6154]

OK so, Koko the Clown in the original Betty Boop cartoon was rotoscoped from Cab Calloway.
While this shows him dancing while performing "St. James Infirmary", this EXACT same recording was used in another Betty Boop cartoon, with Cab performing his most iconic song, "Minnie the Moocher". If you play both side by side you can very clearly see it's the exact same dance performance rotoscoped in both, with two different vocal performances used for each cartoon.
While it is most likely that the Cuphead team was mainly paying tribute to the clip in the video, the little scat performance as King Dice walks in is pulling from Minnie the Moocher. In fact, Cab got the nickname "the Hi-Dee-Ho" from this song, as the original says "hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee ho" instead of "hiro hiro hiro hiro"

[@nathanblevins158]

He not based on cab Calloway.
*He is cab Calloway in sprit*

[@promaster2327]

An Actual cartoon making reference of a old cartoon from the 30s that make reference of a Cab Calloway

[@julianarguello4690]

Si lo vas a demeritar por algo así almenos busca la información real ,no es de betty boop el baile es de cab calloway ,siempre en la historia se sacaron referencias de pero en los cartoon se pidieron permisos y colaboración con este mismo ,ya que la vanda sonora de minni la prostituta fue un tema de calloway ,así que no obstante el baile es de calloway y se lo a visto en otros cortos de sus canciones, gracias !

[@aj05ct]

Rotoscoping rotoscope, no way.

[@keybladegames_real]

may be a coincidence cause that is awfully specific

[@WlatPziupp]

The whole game is based on '30s animation, this is one of many very intentional references

[@Stanford-Simplex]

Kaufmo?

[@tono6136]

GOD Bv

[@jonnysteventoaladelgado9110]

Increíble

[@-Hyxel-]

Pvz music anyone??