Billy the Mountain (Comic Adaptation)
Okay. Backstory time.
I am a huge Frank Zappa fan. I have a few of his albums on CD. At one point, when I was a teenager, his song Watermelon in Easter Hay from his album Joe’s Garage was the most played song on my iPod. But Billy the Mountain is one of my favorite songs of his.
Now, after I got my first computer in late 2011, in April of 2012, I bought the (now discontinued) Toon Boom Studio 6 from Toon Boom. I wanted to make animation. Because even though I love making live action stuff and filming myself and all that, deep down, I’ll always want to be an animator.
So, after procuring Toon Boom Studio 6, I, like a fool, bit off more than I could chew with the first thing I wanted to animate being an animated music video of Frank Zappa’s song Billy the Mountain.
All 24 minutes of it.
I was in my early 20s, I wasn’t as smart, I was still figuring things out, leave me alone.
Well, naturally, I didn’t get as far as the first “Billy was a mountain” and I just gave up. However, you– that’s right, YOU– can still view what little I did manage to animate in one of my older videos titled “Animation Demo Reel 2012”.
Okay. Fast forward to the here and now and I have made a slight approximation of what I originally wanted to make all those years ago. It truly and genuinely was fun to make and I hope you like it. I don’t do very much drawing or animation nowadays, so I sincerely hope you watch this and like it. It means the world to me.
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