Yearning For Cockamamies
Who can live without skin pictures?Skin was a much cheaper printing surface than paper in the 1960s.Remember the song? "Cockamamies, Cockamamies,Made from Human Skin.They will lift your spirits highHow they'll make you grin.Hide your blemishes and pimplesWipe away your molesDrape your flesh in CockamamiesPurify your souls...Flintstone FlintstoneFred and WilmaBarney, Dino TooClothe your flesh in
Cartoony, Graphic and Directly to the Point: Kurtzman's Hey Look
Harvey Kurtzman's "Hey Look" is UPA before UPA. It's also something more. It has the graphic qualities of "Gerald McBoing Boing" and "Fudget's Budget", but without abandoning its cartoony roots. It's similar to T. Hee's style, but with a lot more verve.Technically, Harvey has a lot of obvious great qualities but above and beyond them all is his ability to balance them graphically to convey a
The Incredible Story of Tommy, My First Official Cartooning Student
I was shopping for meat one day and I noticed a tall lanky youth following close behind me. I assumed he could tell I knew my meats and wanted to copy my selections, but after a few minutes he walked up to me, clamped his hand onto my skull and addressed me. He said "Are you........him?" I said "I am one of him." He then queried: "John K.?" Then he hailed his sister over. "Hey sis, it's John K.!"
A Bunch of Dirty Tricks: Ripoff Alert
Dirty Trick# 1 Not telling you on the cover what cartoons are on the disk, so that you get tricked into buying the same cartoons again. I can't believe they would do this. They should have just called the box :"OFFICIAL BUGS BUNNY PRODUCT"I scoured the back cover and found no clue as to what was on the disk.When I opened it, there wasn't even a booklet to tell you what was on the disks. But then
Look What Brent Did
http://brentnoll.blogspot.com/That's a swell inking style you got there Brent.Thanks!
Christmas Comic Book Stories
Christmas is not generally the best theme for cartoon fun. It usually means cartoons and comics that are mild, not too raucous and worst of all - good for you! Even so, I highly recommend Christmas comic books as a nice present for some kid in your family.Animators-when not telling pure cartoon stories- have an odd tendency to want to draw sweet naked men and boys and this book has some of that.
My Favorite Animated Scene
I love this scene from Kansas City Kitty.It exemplifies the fun, excitement and creative spirit of the most creative age of animation.After being somewhat stagnant for almost 20 years, animation experienced a creative explosion after the arrival of sound.I don't know if sound spurred it, or if it just happened by chance at the same time, but for about 10 years animation explored ideas and
Interim Doodles
Sorry I don't have anything more exciting at the moment.I can't show you what I'm really working on yet, so all I have are my morning warm up bacon doodles.
Looney Health Issues
Does breaking your leg make you a cripple? I heard that we aren't allowed to say "cripple" anymore. We have to say "better off" or something.I hope they bury me in this position.I have never seen this condition before, but I like it. Does Daffy have the Shingles?
So Dear To My Heart
I stole these from Hans Bacher's fine blog.They're from a hard to find Disney movie that's mostly live action.The cartoon in it though is quintessential Disney. It boasts a massive contrast between its content and execution.The layouts, color styling, painting, smooth animation are all incredible. The character designs are all stock generic Disney and so is the acting and story.Someone some day
The First Realistic TV cartoons
It's funny that the very first so-called "realistic" cartoons were drawn better than everything that came after.I mean, they're still stiff as hell, but at least they had some solidity and a bit of design.Probably because they used actual comic artists to draw them and didn't try to animate them.In the production process that came later, they would just design the realistic characters on model
Smokey Fun
They should have a funny animal character for all antisocial behaviors. "Knuckly" the "Don't Mug Old Ladies Gnu would make a good role model. "Bad Tastey" the don't wear your pants below your underwear waistband Wildebeest.
The Inverted Curves Theory
A while ago Rex and I were discussing how ugly modern animation design had become and why. We discussed what the ugliest of ugly styles was.We decided that Dreamworks wouldn't count because everyone pretty much agrees that they make the ugliest "toons', - even the folks who subscribe to other modern animation styles.I suggested one modern style that drives me nuts - the inverted curves theory of
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