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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