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. 😊