The Country Cousin (1936) Breakdown + Mosaics

 

This month I was fully invested with classic disney media. I love alot of the characters, and love the entire style of it. Makes you feel sweet and heartwarming inside.

These are without a doubt the most creative, most pleasing character designs I ever seen in animation history. 

These model sheets helped me improve as a better artist. You'll be excited about the next drawing post. 

I love these models of Pete. While I normally have no opinion on his personality, he's very interesting to look at especially in his 40s cartoons. 

He's useful whenever I draw Ox Fisher.

Find this kid to be cute and well-drawn.

Today's cartoon of the day is The Country Cousin (1936) didn't think it was worth the academy award, but it's still a solid and interesting cartoon.

I'm not entirely going through all of this cartoon because I was investigating something new, called mosaics. These are really cool and worth exploring to see what animators did which scene. 

These pictures are discovered on this website. Here's the link to the original post where I downloaded these amazing pictures.

https://babbittblog.com/2013/03/30/country-cousin-draft-mosaic/

It's extremely fascinating and unique to see what people like best from cinema. The animation and scenery in this cartoon is gorgeous. 

The reason as to why I made this specific topic in the first place is the placement for the dates each animator was assigned to make a scene for. 

The Silly Symphonies were well known for having some complexity and creative ambition literally a few years before they were popular for their movies. 

While yes, short films are not as complicated or driven as feature-film making, it's still alot of work, and a good cast of animators.

In the beginning of the short, Marvin Woodward and Les Clark mostly take action to animate all of the frames. That's it. They are not credited in any of the last 30 seconds. In fact I love the final 30 seconds of this short the best. 

I dunno there's a right way to create a cartoon about a mouse exploring in a normal living house. But here it kinda doesn't work. It's still got some moments though so I wasn't too bored. 

This mouse is inspired by my own mouse, Giggles. It's very interesting. He has such a captivating and overlooked design. 

At least he has some likeabilty. He had a few merchandising efforts. Like this vinylmation figure I find genuinely cool.

Before I leave it here, here's 2 pictures I find pleasing and sure has a vibe to them.