Gast-Hawk

NOTE: It may take a while to load; blame me for wanting the music to be high-quality! And I'm still pretty new to Flash so I don't have any fancy bar to tell you it's loading, so you can read the following ramble instead.

I've been on a huge Disney kick ever since seeing The Princess and the Frog, and have downloaded a lot of Disney music. Even the music itself is so animated and lively, and it reminds me of my inspiration for drawing in the first place, which is quality animation. Therefore, it really gets my cartooning fuel going.

So I'm listening to "Gaston," and I just can't resist the image of my personal favorite egomaniac, Rawk Hawk, singing some of these lines. The song is perfect for him after he finally gets ousted from his championship seat, with his fans trying to cheer him up. So I start doodling... then think hey, I'll do most of the whole song and make this into a comic! But I couldn't resist how great it was to listen to the song while viewing the pictures, so I decided... to make it into a movie. And thus something totally new for me was created.

At first I was using Windows Movie Maker, which was alright, but then after many years of waiting, I finally went out and grabbed my knight in shining armor, Flash, and started over... and it was so much easier.

Most of the illustrations were hand-drawn, scanned, then vectorized, but I did a few on Flash. At one point I had the idea that maybe this should be fully colored, but then I slapped myself and considered that I could be using that time to make more cool stuff; it looks decent enough in black and white, and this is more about the humor than the artistic factor anyway.

Rawk Hawk needed an butt-kissing sidekick just for this song; I made him a Goomba because they are fun and easy to draw, plus they have that reputation already of being the downtrodden goons; I mean, doesn't LeFou in the movie just scream out "Goomba" to you anyway? It was an easy choice. Accordingly, this little guy is named LeGou, and he's become a part of my fanon as the Hawk's official little sidekick. (I considered giving him LeFou's hairstyle, but I thought that was overkill, plus it got in the way of his expressive eyebrows.) If you're curious, he's one of the Goomba Bros, pretty much the lowest tier on the Glitz Pit ladder.

Anyway, I've got so much to say because I spent a lot of time on this, but I'll cut myself off, and conclude with... I hope you enjoy this as much as I loved making it. It was a blast!

Rawk Hawk (c) Nintendo/Intelligent
Gaston (c) Disney

Oh, but here are the edited lyrics, if you want to sing along XD (Just kidding, don't do that)

RH: Who does he think he is? That guy has tangled with the wrong man! No one Rawks the Hawk!
LG: Heh heh. Darn right!
RH: Ousted, humiliated, and by a bunch of losers! Why, it's more than I can bear.
LG: More beer?
RH: What for? Nothing helps. I'm disgraced.
LG: Who, you? Never! Rawk Hawk, you've got to pull yourself together.

Gosh it disturbs me to see you, Rawk Hawk
Looking so down in the dumps
Every guy here'd love to be you, Rawk Hawk
Even when taking your lumps
There's no man in town as admired as you
You're ev'ryone's favorite guy
Ev'ryone's awed and inspired by you
And it's not very hard to see why

No one's slick as the Hawk
No one's quick as the Hawk
No one's neck's as incredibly thick as the Hawk
For there's no man in town half as manly
Perfect, a pure paragon
You can ask any Tom, Dick or Stanley
And they'll tell you whose team they prefer to be on

Chorus: No one's been like the Hawk
A king pin like the Hawk
LG: No one's got a swell cleft in his chin like the Hawk
RH: As a specimen, yes, I'm intimidating
Chorus: My what a guy, that Rawk Hawk

Give five "hurrahs!"
Give twelve "hip-hips!"
LG: The Hawk is the best
And the rest is all drips

Chorus: No one fights like the Hawk
Douses lights like the Hawk
Craw-Daddy: In a wrestling match nobody bites like the Hawk
Fangirls: For there's no one as burly and brawny
RH: So attractive it must be a sin!
LG: Not a bit of him's scraggly or scrawny
RH: (That's right!)
And ev'ry last inch of me's covered with WIN

Fans: No one hits like the Hawk
Matches wits like the Hawk
LG: In a spitting match nobody spits like the Hawk
RH: I'm espcially good at expectorating
(Ptooey!)
Chorus: Ten points for the Hawk!

RH: When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs
Ev'ry morning to help me get large
And now that I'm grown I eat five dozen eggs
So I'm roughly the size of a barge

Chorus: No one shoots like the Hawk
Makes those beauts like the Hawk
LG: Then goes tromping around wearing boots like the Hawk
RH: I use antlers in all of my decorating
Chorus: Say it again
Who's a man among men?
And then say it once more
Who's the hero next door?
Who's a super success?
Don't you know? Can't you guess?
Ask his fans and his five hangers-on
There's just one guy in town who's got all of it down
LG: And his name's R-O-C -
R-A-W-C-K
R-A-W-K-K - oh!
Chorus: RAWK HAWWWWWWWK!!