Remember Jot?
He was the hero of a series of shorts produced by the Southern Baptists. I saw one or two of them on TV when I was little, and managed to buy a cel/bg set-up from The Deep Archives. The music is treacly, and the tone is creepy and guilt-wracked, but the design and animation are imaginative and quite nice. Check 'em out!
Thanks to Nate Pacheco for posting them!
4 Comments:
Hey Jeff, thanks for the post on JOT. JOT was animated at K&H Productions in Dallas, from the 1960s up to the early 80s, where Keith Alcorn, John Davis, and I (of DNA Productions)got our starts in animation. I got to work on the last few JOTs as an Oxberry cameraman and cel painter. The company was run by Rod Keitz and Tom Young, who did all the animation and backgrounds. Most of the camera during the time I worked there was done by Jack Dow and John Koepke. JOT's voice was done by a middle aged woman (I don't remember her name)who I remember as looking like the psychic in "Poltergeist".
Paul Claerhout
Cool! I never forgot those shorts. Thanks for all the Jot info!
Hope you're enjoying the blog, Jeff
Thanks for reviving an old memory of a time and place far, far away. As K&H's Oxberry operator in the early '80s I shot a lot of JOT episodes. I was always struck by the backgrounds that Tom Young and Rod Keitz created for the series...especially some of the more "far-out" ones. Tom's animation was always fluid and economical. Paul, John Davis & Keith Alcorn of course went on to create Jimmy Nuetron...and is it me or are there a lot of similarities between the two series? Hmmm...a small boy with a very high voice, whose head is basically a big round ball hovering over two tiny legs, who spends each episode with his best friend, his ever-present canine companion and a girl he may or may not secretly have a crush on learning some life lesson about "adult" issues such as self-awareness, creating one's own personal ethos, and the values of friends and family. Oh yeah…and there’s an "Overlord" character who is never really seen but can impact the action of the plot on any given episode. Hmmm...nah...it's just gotta be a coincidence! :)
Heh. There's usually a common thread through most people's work, I guess!
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