Author: S.L. Gallant Page 12 of 71
There should be an activity page in this week’s issue, involving Teacher. Here are the pencils for the final that led into this post.
Here are the colors for the panel I posted earlier. The issue drops today, so I hope everyone enjoys it.
For those who might not know, I’ve been given the honor of filling the position that the late David Sutherland, O.B.E. has left behind. I can never replace…
Yes, even a bit more love for the designs of Mr. Jones, but this time from a few, rarely seen, toons. These are from various one-offs that he…
More love for the style of Chuck Jones. Here are some frames from his Three Bears toon “A Bear for Punishment”, plus a toss away design for a…
Ok, he’s not a paratrooper, but in “Forward March Hare” (1953), Bugs does mistakingly get drafted into the army. I did a post earlier about the Chuck Jones…
I really enjoyed the design of the antagonist in “Hare Less Wolf” (1958), and you can see hints of Freleng’s future “Pink Panther” design, which would come less than…
The debate over the drill sergeant’s use of vocabulary aside, the short “Forward March Hare” (1952) is another class in design from Chuck Jones. I rarely see this…
I’ve mentioned my love for Filmation’s Groovie Goolies, from the dumb puns to the dad jokes; yet it’s always the character designs I come back to. Even though the animation…
Robert McKimson, and his brother Charles, don’t get enough credit in the WB universe, in my opinion. I admit they didn’t experiment as the other directors did, like…
“Beep,Beep” (1952) is an all time favorite short, & considering a large chunk of it is an animation cheat, should have earned it an award for ingenuity. To…
“Baby Buggy Bunny” (1954) is a classic, with Chuck Jones is hitting on all cylinders in it. The violent baby shaking scene would be disturbing if you didn’t…
It was always fun to see the characters play dress up. Of course there was always Bugs in drag, but I also liked when he and Daffy would…
The Looney Tunes with the three bears were always a love hate for me as a kid. I enjoyed them, but I always felt the Dad was a…
I didn’t know how many classic shorts have fallen into the public domain, and I’m surprised how much of their catalogs the big studios allowed to lapse. One…
More toss away character designs from (mostly) Chuck Jones cartoons. The whole right side is from “Touché & Go” a Pepe cartoon from 1957. The opening characters are…
More Tex Avery studies, and mostly of Droopy’s nemesis. There are also a couple “Red” studies, and I have to say, it’s amazing how the weak poses get…
Sadly, while watching these old shorts I have to put up with the unfortunate lack of sensitivity, be it veiled sexism or (worse) flat out racism. “Southern Fried…
I didn’t want to only focus on Looney Tunes as a sketching source, even if I enjoy them the most. I tracked down a bunch of the Freleng…
Getting back to Looney Tunes, it’s always interesting when main characters are shifted out of their normal model sheets. Whenever Bugs was in drag, someone all beat up…