I’ve just finished up a really great project involving a gubernatorial candidate in Florida. The full animation can be found here . The toon is about two students who are hoping to graduate high school. One passes the exit exam and one doesn’t. Even though the cartoon is about making things better for the kid that (unfairly) flunked, I kinda felt – mostly unconsciously – this kid was dumb for failing and his character model’s deevolution throughout the flick bares this. Jimmy looks dumber and dumber as the movie progresses. His first appearance is pretty neutral, just as the original model sheet suggested.

It really starts to go down hill from there until the very last frame that features Jimmy with his tongue hanging like a comatose puppy.

His nose gets longer and thinner too. I found that i started animating the nose rather than leaving it as a static decoration. Jimmy isn’t the only one who changes as the movie progresses, though. Isabella, the student who passes, gets more rubbery looking as well, with bigger eyes and lips, but still looks intellegent by the end. Her shirt gets shorter also, but I’ve never equated belly buttons with low IQ. Just blonde hair.