Froyd's previous video used the real world background of my kitchen so I wanted to continue that theme.
I think his obsession with coffee is probably going to be a running theme of future episodes.Īfter writing the script the first thing I did was shoot some video footage of the location in my front yard.
If you haven't seen the previous two episodes, then Froyd's coffee reference at the end is homage to those. because that's the only reason anyone digs a hole, right? From having cats as pets in the past, my experience is that, whenever you dig anywhere in the garden, there's a high chance your pet cat will come along and take a quick bathroom break right where you're digging. Later in the video Froyd tells the story of me planting a row of hedges, which is something I actually did, recently, along the fence behind Froyd. I thought, what if chasing birds is a cat's idea of 'gardening'? Eradicating a garden pest - well at least from a cat's point of view. The actual cat that inspired 'Gardening' sitting This cat visits our front yard on a daily basis and hangs around the hedge bush you can see to the right of Froyd, in the video, chasing the birds that come into our yard. The script for this video is actually based on a real cat (who is actually grey but lacks the black stripes and beanie) owned by our neighbors.
You can also read about how he is animated in CrazyTalk Animator 2 in this post, Cool Froyd the Cat and Crazy Talk Animator 2 (Pipeline). There's a detailed look at how he was made in this post, Cool Froyd the Cat and Crazy Talk Animator Pro. When I first discovered CrazyTalk Animator Pro, Cool Froyd is the first of my own characters I created with it. You can see me paint the original artwork in my vlog series, E13: TETs S.A.L.A. Watch the video below then continue on for background information about what inspired the video and detailed highlights from how it was made.Ĭool Froyd is taken from an artwork I painted back in 2009 for my first solo art exhibition. In this episode Froyd explains how cats garden and recounts a story of some fairly odd gardening practices from TET (i.e. My latest animation is the third installment of my Cool Froyd the cat series titled, Gardening.
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