Great Vintage Stuff 3

 

It is that time again! For another vintage stuff post! To start off, this is a great painting by Mead Schaeffer. 

Limited colors = Brilliance 

Here's another great one by him.

Too late to celebrate Halloween nowadays, but I thought this was just beautiful. J.C Leyendecker is such a wonderful artist!

Here's 2 artworks created by Charles Relyea. He's an incredibly talented artist. I'm a huge fan of his art nowadays. This is some of my 3 favorites so far.

That final image's color palette is stunning!

I love the two-tone color schemes so much, do you know who also seems to enjoy it? Chuck Jones. I immediately loved these and wanted to share it to you guys! 

Now here's something unreal that it's outstanding, Frederick Edwin Church's 1853 painting Mount Ktaadn. 

Lastly is some nice vintage art of Sleeping Beauty from a French magazine. I've grown to like the film alot more. Maleficent is a fantastic villain and the animation of her dragon transformation will never not astound me.

The Disney+ AI Situation

Just about a few days ago, Bob Iger, CEO of Disney officially announced that Disney+ will soon feature AI generated user content, stating that it'll "provide users of Disney+ with a much more engaged experience." So that means subscribers of the platform will create some of their own types of content only using artificial intelligence.

Now all of that is unimpressive so far but there's also this to mention.

To be honest, we knew that the company would continue to push boundaries like this, but this is going TOO far.

Disney has already declined over the years for it's obsession with quantity, their control with materialism over idealism and taking the advantage to promote films nobody seems to care about because they're either tame or unoriginal. Ever since Disney's consumption, they're owning these other companies that feel unnecessary for a film studio to possess. They have owned countless studios like Marvel, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox as well as other properties like ESPN, and Hulu. Disney+ in particular adding shows and highlights from those channels and studios for more consumerism. 

The whole AI situation to me is terrible because it's basically trying to consume subscribers by watching the unnecessary content but this time, not made by naturally hand-crafted artists. 

I've been influenced by alot of Walt Disney's quotes over the past few weeks. This is probably the best example from researching upon the situation.

"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

This quote has been ignored and panned for a long time. Now I haven't fully checked out too much on what Iger states about the future of Disney but you shouldn't just jam down our throats to make a statement like that and BOOM! out of nowhere is trending on social media. 

We us as a community are instantly disappointed and unable to handle this issue, and if that's how it's gonna be, then let it arise. Hate it or not. You can still be fine with what you experience on the platform even if it's distracting or disputable. This isn't a message for everyone, as I am fully aware of people in general, having different interests and hobbies. 

As someone who is more of an older Disney movie fan, into the 30s-50s films, this doesn't affect me that much. The beauty and passion that went into the animated films inspire me the most, so the recent news about stuff happening with Disney doesn't particularly interest me at all.

Oh and as of writing this, Disney announced the trailer for the live-action Moana. How wonderful...

All I have to say is, appreciate what interests you the most, if you don't like the changes, avoid them. You can like what you like, that's why I have DVDs so if the streaming service gets more expensive and the artifical generated content is gonna spread, I have them anytime. They have scene selections, and more interesting bonus features.

Here's the link if your curious.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/disney-plus-gen-ai-user-generated-content-1236426135/

Owls

 

Owls are one of the most interesting types of birds. I love them myself, they're classified as being morally analytical, and solitary. I recently created a new edition to the Art-Mania Villain crew. This is The Wise Ol' Owl, he believes in the willpower of wisdom, but he can be very deceitful, and tries treacherous methods to change people's minds from becoming completely normal to geniuses of his teachings.

This is what he looks like, notice that smug, yet wicked facial expression in the middle of the sketches. This is a true glance of his devious personality.

This idea started off as I was watching the extras selection of the 2005 Bambi DVD, it's becoming one of my all-time favorite movies, and Friend Owl in particular is a very expressive character, so it's a very useful example of studying specific owls.

They actually showed live-action owls, but these are images I searched on the internet, mostly for key reference. The narrow eyes show off suspicion.

This owl is flying mid-air, owls themselves don't usually walk on ground, so it's useful that they use their feathers.

Now Wise Ol' Owl may be a little more anthropomorphic, but he still decides to act traditionally anyway.

An owl is shocked, or maybe even surprised. Their eyes are more wide open, in a cautious sort of way.

Mr. Owl isn't particularly that shocked. The film theory is that the heroes are particularly more confident at handling challenging situations than villains often do. 

There's not a bunch of owls in animation. They're fun to draw, in fact my high school mascot is an owl. Last year, I designed and promoted virtue art until I graduated.

Cheese Chasers (1951)

 

I have discussed about Chuck Jones Looney Tunes cartoons in the past, like Chow Hound, Drip-Along Daffy and recently Haredevil Hare. I would love to discuss more of his cartoons since he's becoming my favorite of the Looney Tunes directors. 

This cartoon is titled Cheese Chasers (1951). It's a very cruel but enjoyable short. It starts off with Hubie and Bertie sick after eating a huge chunk of cheese. Seriously guys, you should've noticed about this sudden change even sooner. 

Anyways, these guys are hilarious. They are the perfect pair. These miserable faces their making are insanely well-drawn. I love all of Chuck Jones's animation staff back in the early 50s, Ben Washam, Phil Monroe, are just great. 

The story gets more depressing as Hubie and Bertie end their lives by going into Claude's mouth. Man, this is some dark stuff. Whenever I watch Clampett or Art Davis cartoons, they just stick to those average normal routes of having fun and engaging with jerks and loud wacky characters, it's OK but I tend to like more relatable characters like Claude and the two mice. 

Anyways, look as these glorious and menacing facial expressions of Claude Cat! This is some stellar stuff. I remember my first time watching this and being shocked at these scenes, but I still loved the cartoon. 

You can really tell how infuriated Claude looks in this scene. I kinda relate to him not because he's going mad, but if anyone was trying to do something that seems awfully immoral and saddening in front of me, I seriously need them to stay away from me at all cost. 

Throughout the cartoon, Claude still makes some very funny faces.  

Easily my favorite moment is when the bulldog tries handling the situation, just like Claude, he makes some very relatable and funny faces, and says his most iconic line.

"IT JUST DON'T ADD UP!"

I downloaded the final three minutes of this cartoon so you can experience it yourself. 

Want to see my review on Chow Hound (1951)? Click the link.

https://sngexplorationblog.blogspot.com/2025/03/chow-hound-1951.html?m=1

Recent November Drawings 2

 

Just by looking into the title, it's definitely better than a movie sequel at least. 

I don't have anything to say, but enjoy the drawings.

The Secret Of NIMH Backgrounds

I recently watched The Secret of NIMH, it was a fantastic movie, despite the crow scenes. The backgrounds were massive, and I ought to share a ton of cool ones. 

I would highly recommend checking out this film. It's dark, mature and beautiful. This was the first Don Bluth movie I ever experienced, and he's got extraordinary lots of talent. 

Also like to note, that I know I'm celebrating Thanksgiving first and in my opinion getting into the Christmas spirit is kinda disrespectful and unnecessary as of now, but I would still like to check out a few holiday shorts and movies, another film that Bluth made was called The Small One, looks really great, and since we're almost moving away from Disney+ soon, I'll highly check it out before it's too late.