Angel And Devil Side

 

You know, for being out in the world with loads of people and loads of work, I can understand why I have to deal with it.

Everyone has a different side to their brain like the left or right. 

The left is the logical, and factual side. 

The right is the creative, emotional side.

As for who will guide you, you'll either have trust for an angel or devil.

Do you ever want to know which side you just trust more? 

I love those angel and devil cartoons alot. Mostly when they are on character's shoulders. It's such a clever and smart idea.

Here is a cartoon I grew up watching. 

I remember loving Andy since pandas were my favorite animals at that time. 

This cartoon is called Apple Andy (1946).

Coming back watching this one, it isn't as watchable and memorable as I thought it was going to be, but I still like alot of the parts.

For one thing, the devil is so evil in this cartoon. He's literally poisoning Andy by spraying the green apples, red. Sheesh. 

I also like the main song, Up Jump The Devil.

Classic cartoons rarely have a theme song during the cartoon, which is what I like about this particular short.

I mean this was in the late 40s, almost everything this decade had powerful artistry.

The first few classic cartoon shorts I ever watched including this one has had an influence on me which is pretty shocking to say at the least. 

The Cookie Carnival (1935), The Mad Hatter (1940), Rabbit Fire (1951), and this one are my childhood favorites. 

You know a devil can do alot of naughty stuff, and you shouldn't listen to them. The trustworthy angel beats the devil panda in a very well-animated fight scene. 

This is really underrated. The angel panda zips the devil panda's mouth.

Pokes his eyes like The Three Stooges 

And then the angel defeats the crap outta him, leaving his horn stuck on the trees, and we get this priceless and memorable frame.

What's a perfect way to end this cartoon off?

With a song, a really catchy song at that.

I can name another solid cartoon like Apple Andy and that's Donald's Better Self.

Y'know after watching these, I just never want to be on the bad side. It just isn't right.

I know I care a little. 

I made my own versions of the angel and devil since they are the most timeless duos in history.

Right up there with Santa and Ms. Claus and Mary and Joesph.

I did more with the devil since he has such a cool design and I felt proud about it.

We gotta respect morality somehow. Because I believe in God and I believe in spirituality.

Personalities really matter these days, we're not always liking everyone anymore, but not for bad reasons, just having an opinion and taste to certain things.

My Animation Appeal - Part 2

This is Part 2.

Check out Part 1 if you missed it.

In my Part 1 post I talked about my main animation appeal and I was mostly talking about my favorite animator, Rod Scribner.

I want to talk about another type of appeal and that is more or so Classic Disney animation, the best of them all.

My favorite animated scene is the Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit scenes.

These are smooth and expertly crafted, that has both drawn to me and is absolutely hilarious. 

Now if you may know, this scene is taken from the controversial, Song Of The South. 

I tried to watch that movie, but it kinda felt too unsettling. Something about the dark tones and drama doesn't feel comfortable to me.

But the animated bits were fun.

I genuinely love Brer Fox's voice, it sounds so soothing and easy to admire.

He's obviously supposed to be a southern type character, and it's appropriate. Didn't feel like he needed to be sounding different.

This is where the "It's just a drawing" thing really gets on my nerves, look at that stellar pose Brer Fox does here. Man, I love how this dude moves.

There is alot of talking throughout these scenes but at least it has some creative potential. At least they don't talk about something worthless.

I think Brer Rabbit is also a fantastic edition to this movie. I love some of his lines.

The best moments is when he is pleading for himself to not be thrown into the briar patch.

Speaking about The Briar Patch, this is one of the funniest moments in this movie.

I also like when it shows how sharp and dangerous it actually is. 

After that, we get the funniest line delivery by Brer Fox, saying "BRIAR PATCH!"

It's priceless. 

There are loads of Disney animated sequences I love like Ichabod and The Headless Horseman, Pinocchio skipping, or The Sorcerer Apprentice's but I think these scenes are outright underrated as heck.

I can understand why Disney banned the entirety of the movie, but why the animated bits? Man, 1946 was not an appreciated year for Disney nowadays. 

The entirety of Song Of The South's animated sequences need to be watched, like or dislike them. I absolutely adore these myself. 

The backgrounds as well are some of the best for these guys. 

If you want to know about what my appeal should be, it should not be A.I or one of these, even though this stuff was actually made by existing people.

 

Animation like An Optical Poem, can be so boring and repetitive for a while, it's just a bunch of flying shapes. 

If I ever had the chance to make an abstract, and visual experience for all of you, it would be how I like animation and art.

I don't like lifeless spheres and dimensional noise. So why should I make something so atrocious like that? I hope I don't meet with overly strict people telling me to make stuff like this.

The Dot and The Line if it was done by me.

Having a mouth on an object has always been a long-time secret interest of mine.

The dot could've had way more personality, but hey we can't all be winners.

I really like characters that have a unique and quirky look. The dot having an additional mouth reminds me of stuff like Annoying Orange.

The orange was one of my biggest influences on the YouTube platform for the past few years. Yeah, it's a bit of a weird statement.

I love the classic ones the most. The videos made in 2009-2011. 

I think the 30s-50s had the best animation in history. There was so much experimental visions went into the animators, there was so much timeless and simplicity that it can be watched by anyone more than the newer stuff.

I strive for animating in a more golden age approach.

These are some of my characters.

My Animation Appeal - Part 1

 

When it comes to what type of animation appeal I like the best, there is a ton of options.

I really admire the Winsor McCay animation from the early days.

I also like the Fleischer Cartoons where they use 3-D cameras for the backgrounds.

The type of animation appeal I love the best is the wacky side of things, where everything is drawn so smoothly and there's a bunch of wrinkles on the characters to make them more detailed and lively.

That's what Rod Scribner does. He's one of my favorites animators ever. 

His animated scenes get stuck in my head the most. I think it's because the characters have such a perfect form of expressive personality.

You can look at Daffy in the cartoon, The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, and instantly get distracted by the design. He looks like alot of fun to draw with most of his frames.

Compare it to the more stiff and lifeless Daffy we get in the late 60s. 

This is also one of my favorite cartoons, Kitty Kornered. It's really detailed and adds up to the fun of the cartoon alot more.

I mean, like I said, I don't hate this style of animation, I just don't think it's as enjoyable and easy to draw as it sounds. 

What made Rod Scribner such an amazing animator was that when it came to a certain cartoon that he was advised to animate, it would begin to be normal, pretty tame, or sometimes even funny without the help of his drawings, but when Scribner's animation appears, it all the sudden made it a whole lot sharper and faster and the designs became more appealing and cute.

This pose that Foghorn Leghorn does is priceless!

I would've been okay with classic cartoons that didn't have that much exaggerated energy, but honestly if Scribner didn't even exist, Looney Tunes and other cartoons would be alot different and less tough. 

He felt like he needed to be in the animation world just like Tex Avery, Ward Kimball, and John Sibley.

Bob Clampett's Bugs Bunny is the best, moral character in existence. 

I'm actually shocked not alot people relate to Bugs in these cartoons. I love how he's more short-tempered, honest and reliable he is.

The best parts with one of these characters was when they were really pissed off, they would show off their gnarly human teeth.

Yes I'm going to say it, THIS IS ABSOLUTELY BADASS!

I cannot imagine an 80 year old cartoon to have this much vicious drawings.

When I first watched these cartoons, I never knew which scenes were animated by the person. But after about a year, some of these true work of beauty came from a guy with alot of amusing talent.

Usually I'm not a fan of the Sylvester and Hippety Hopper cartoons. There like those cartoons people back then truly wanted to see more of. It's like the Chip and Dale and Roadrunner shorts.

I'm not kidding, some of these are even dumber than the Coyote and Roadrunner shorts themselves. Why in the hell, does Sylvester keep on fighting a kangaroo who thinks is a giant mouse for 20 cartoons? I truly hate that idea. But hey one cartoon was enough to be at least enjoyable was Hippety Hopper (1949) which I believe Rod Scribner didn't animate.

Sylvester rarely had energy which is understandable but with these lame brain shorts, they make it instantly better even if it's only about 5 seconds of screen time.

I would always wonder what it could be like if Rod Scribner worked on some of the Harveytoons shorts?

I don't truly hate these designs, but my god, they are so bland. People say that characters like Mickey Mouse are bland, but at least he had an interesting character design and had some funny facial expressions here and there.

When I watched a few of these cartoons, I felt really bored. These were the golden age characters that were never special or felt like they needed to be watched whatsoever. 

I didn't care for Little Audrey, never liked Casper, and felt like Herman and Katnip were interesting for about a minute.

I tried my best to capture the feel of Rod Scribner's facial animated expressions to the most disappointing character I ever witnessed.

Even if Casper could have one funny and relatable expression, it would've been at least interesting.

I made another drawing of a character I never liked into a Scribner type.

JJ from Cocomelon.

Again, not the worst thing ever, but would've wished for something more expressive from this popular nursery rhyme channel. 

Finally for now at least, appeal DOES NOT MEAN THIS.

Get me? Good.

Part 2 tomorrow. 😊