MAGIC

This is a good example of one of those "magic" moments animation. These 2 characters, Major Pecs and the Unintelligible Hunk, worked so good together and played well off one another that I decided to write another episode featuring these two together. When something works, it is important to shift direction, rethink, and alter course. Originally, I only planned on using Hunk in 3 episodes, including this first episode, and he wasn't teamed up with Major Pecs in the other two. Now I am going to rewrite them together.
The screenshots above are from 2 close up scenes that were added after receiving the audio tracks, because I was inspired by how the characters interacted with each other.

economy of a scene

It's all about economy of a scene at this point. Primarily because there are only 4 weeks remaining to finish it on time to submit it to the Ottawa Animation festival. So in this sequence, instead of showing a long shot of the characters pull their pants up, flush the toilet, and exit the washroom, I cut to a close up shot of their legs, panning from one character to the other as he pulls up his pants. I don't have to animate them flushing the toilet, because once they stand up we will hear the flush. Then I cut to the shot of them walking out to the left. Doing it this way saved me a lot of animation. Plus there is something really cool about the low angle shot of their legs on the toilet, it's kind of Quentin Tarantinoish.

transformation

Put 'em together with some fade ins and effects; and voila! You have a transformation sequence.

Hunk option

The character of "THE UNINTELLIGIBLE HUNK" is still evolving. He started out as a spoof of "THE INCREDIBLE HULK", he is still is, but that original design was just a cartoon version of the Hulk without a twist to make him something new. So then I decided to make him into a white rapper, but he still had gray/green skin like the Hulk. This time I kept him as an unintelligible rapper, but made him a black guy. I figure a nerdy white guy scientist that turns into a black rapper with bling is pretty funny, and it takes the character further away from a straight up spoof of The Incredible Hulk. I have not decided which version to settle on yet.

white rapper

I felt the character of THE UNINTELLIGIBLE HUNK was way too much like the INCREDIBLE HULK. He is a spoof of the hulk of course, but he needed an interesting twist, not just a cartoony version of the hulk. So I made him into a white rapper type of character, with blond Eminem hair and bling around his neck. He is going to talk like a rapper, which is unintelligible anyway, so the name still fits. So now the articulate scientist turns into an unintelligible green rapper.

RIPPED GLOVES

Now that's better! I should have thought of this before. The HUNK would rip right through those gloves when he changes from the scientist. I made them to look like fingerless biker gloves.

SCIENTIST

This is the scientist that turns into THE UNINTELLIGIBLE HUNK. I just added the purple lab gloves.

HUNK CHANGES

The old version of THE UNINTELLIGIGBLE HUNK had no twist, no new element on THE INCREDIBLE HULK character. He was just a cartoony version of the Hulk. The rest of the characters in the TOILET PUCK universe have unique takes on the old super hero archetypes. So I had to do the same with HUNK. I gave him purple lab gloves, like THE EVIL BRAIN TEASER, or DEXTER'S LAB, and instead of the ripped pants like the Hulk, I gave HUNK underwear. I always wondered how the Hulk's pants did not rip right off. As for his personality; HUNK is still a dumb gentle giant, but now he also has a weakness for burritos. It was the combination of Gamma Radiation and a burrito that caused him to turn into the HUNK, have diarrhea, and accidentally create TOILET PUCK. I may also change his skin color. Personally, I like the 3rd one, the yellowish one.

THE UNINTELLIGIBLE HUNK

HUNK is a gentle giant. He is responsible for the creation of TOILET PUCK, when the gamma radiation in his diarhea turned an ordinary toilet dissinfectant puck into TOILET PUCK.