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I got nothing other than vague memories of a movie with a young cussing Whoopie Goldberg. The only thing I can find other than this is the fact that the rolling stones have a song with a similar name. I guess that a play on words it will be…
Pure entry. Everything made in Blender, only procedural textures.
A jack-in-a-box might count as a “jumping jack”. I could have made The Flash pop-out instead of a clown, but then I decided to go with a vintage camera flash apparatus.
So when the box opens, not only are you startled by the movement, but also blinded by the strong flash. Great for taking pictures of your kids making the funniest faces!
Based on the authority of Mother Goose… Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick
There are also theories that the rhyme was based on an English pirate, ‘Black Jack Smatt’. Black Jack was said to be able to escape from capture whenever under threat (‘nimble’ and ‘quick’). Black Jack lived on Jamaica, in Port Royal, during the Golden Age of Piracy. Jack Smatt was portrayed in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies as Jack Sparrow