Rare Animated Cels

 

Nothing's been too interesting lately, but I'm glad it's September. I thought let me create a simple post this time and share some cel art, mostly Disney. 

It's inspired from Andrea Deja's Deja View blog. 

The first one. This is really cute, from Dumbo (1941). I'm pretty sure Dumbo himself was easy to ink and paint because he has less amount of colors than Timothy Q Mouse does. I bet the ink and paint team were really careful trying to noticeably point each color layer Timothy matches with like his clothes.

Here's another from the same movie. I bet the animators in general were having alot of fun drawing sets of rubbery and playful movements while the characters were dancing. 

Here's a stellar shot of The Headless Horseman from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949), one of my all-time favorite Disney films, only professionals can pull off expressing the scene from where this took place. Nice colors too.

Something a little more random, but definitely not bizarre as it's different sets of poses not attached to the final product, from Pinocchio. I love the Pleasure Island scenes and I somewhat really like the warm colors of Lampwick here. 

Another classic Disney character, Brer Bear, tied up but enjoying and letting loose. This looks clean, and obviously love the atmosphere.

This is an excellent drawing of Tramp from well, Lady and The Tramp (1955). I like how he chews his bone, and has extraordinary amounts of detail. 

I heard that painting the more realistic characters like Cinderella were extremely difficult to manage, but it all turns out gorgeous and handsome looking. I really admire the layout to this one. I wonder what's happening outside. 

I surprisingly never watched Little Hiawatha, because it's a Silly Symphonies cartoon and it's in Technicolor, so I gotta watch this someday. Anyways, this is cute.

An interesting cel of Donald Duck from the animated short, Clown Of The Jungle (1947). I know this cuz I watched this loads of times also it was drawn by Hal King. My favorite overlooked animators.

Here's a funny cel of Prince Phillip with his horse Samson. I always felt absorbed by how different the animation in Sleeping Beauty looked. Couldn't tell if it was using the same techniques as previous old Disney films or something. 

Finally for the Disney cels is from The Ugly Duckling (1939), the lily pads are extremely pleasant and gorgeous, and I like the simplicity. Very appealing. 

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Here is some more animated cels but they're from different franchises. Enjoy.

This Ren and Stimpy cel is just too perfect, from one of my favorite episodes of the show. I also love these designs best. They feel more at ease, and detailed.

This cel brings me back nostalgia. Rock Bottom used to be one of my all-time favorite episodes when I was a kid. The atmosphere, the concept is just impeccable and what made Spongebob just a great show. I talked about Season 1 of Spongebob already. Feel free to check it out.

Here's a neat cel of Sugar Bear from the Sugar Crisp adverts from the 60s-70s. 

And finally, I just gotta include one from  Looney Tunes. A personal favorite cartoon of mine, Duck Amuck. I love Chuck Jones's design of Daffy Duck the best, and so is his expressions, very good stuff. 

The Coach - How To Play Football (1944)

 

There's this great sequence from a Disney cartoon called How To Play Football (1944) starring a bunch of Goofy clones. I think it's a decently funny short, but this particular scene with the coach was animated beautifully by John Sibley. 

He's one of my favorite animators of all time. He animated most of the Kinney Goofy shorts and has an expressive yet cool and almost powerful sense of artistic ability. The coach here shows off a very tough and likeable pose.

He does a unique walk, and does a solidly great trick of letting go of the cigar and a second later he grasps it with his teeth. 

The next following frames are a bunch of lively and fun drawings of The Coach's arms flailing around, and anticipation.

So fluid and interesting.

I'm telling you this happens in all of a matter of seconds, these type of scenes are fast paced and erratic, but honestly in an appropriate way.

Here's use of the dry-brush technique. 

This is a fantastic and well-drawn pose. 

So as this one. 

It's gets even better every time. 

This one is especially badass. Yep, I'm saying it. The camera zooms in rapidly here.

I swear when it comes to people complaining how Disney isn't trying to go for a wacky and quirky style of humor, they haven't seen these cartoons. They remind me alot like Avery.

I remember chuckling at the coach's voice when he says "NOW GET OUT THERE and FIGHT!" It's really funny and rubbery. 

Feel free to watch on Toontales. 

https://www.toontales.net/short/how-to-play-football/

Harvey Eisenberg's Mickey And The Beanstalk

 

I'm not a comic geek but I do consider myself discovering comics especially older ones from time to time. It's kinda fun if they make sense, and has some sense of humor.

This is Harvey Eisenberg's Mickey and The Beanstalk comic from 1947, released the same year as the short film. I found Eisenberg's work to be appealing and he's extremely talented. These comics are easily captivating and I find the lettering and narration to be incredible.

Right away, the introduction scene takes place in Happy Valley. I'm learning alot about this particular location. I'm loving the narrator so far. There's alot more character development and conceptual modifications than I imagined. 

I love the narrator pointing out how we didn't expect Donald controlling his temper, since that's what he's most known for in terms of his actions. 

Next we meet The Golden Harp, I honestly felt like she could've had way more potential, because I really like her concept, but she kinda acted like a normal person, which is fine but I just wasn't too big on her scenes. Alot of unique colors in this page. The mysterious shadow has a good shade of purple and light blues.

This was that one scene I remember watching from the short film I admired the best. It was one of those first experiences I had on liking old-school Disney. In the original Fun and Fancy Free movie, the Happy Valley looked dry and depressing. I could mention that this strip uses a natural and joyous blue background, but to me it doesn't work. Still solid though on the other bits, including that one sign near the cow, that's good detail and slice of comedy.

We almost get the same type of reactions from the movie version, except Donald isn't shouting angrily at Edgar Bergen as he breaks the 4th wall. 

I also loved alot of the camera angles and emotion in that film. The part where Goofy and Donald look immensely at Mickey slicing a bean and they look like their sweating is just masterful. I would like to know who animated that entire 2 minute or so scene. 

https://afilmla.blogspot.com/2018/01/prod-2057-fun-and-fancy-free-iii-prod_25.html?m=1

I can freely thank Hans Perk for the excellent drafts. Very useful! 

Anyways back to the comic.

Donald apologizing to his friends will never not be entertaining to me. It's also now canon the cow has an actual name. 

I absolutely love the interactions of all three of these characters. Mickey, Donald and Goofy together was always one of the best that old Disney had to offer. They inspired my characters, Dredd The Moose, Szac and Phillips Bear. 

We still get some excellent drawings and reactions. 

This is what I like about comics, they're not pushing boundaries like trying to only make people laugh or get invested in only pictures. 

The last scene of this image reminds me of the Three Stooges when they sleep. 

Now obviously alot of the Disney books especially the Little Golden ones try to tell the premise like the original movie. I guess it's because these were made when VHS and television weren't releasing/airing these movies yet, and it was better to adapt it in literature. 

Honestly, I might prefer this over the animated version. I remembered watching the Fun and Fancy Free behind-the-scenes documentary exactly a month ago, this was originally going to be a feature film, but was trimmed down to only half an hour. Kinda disappointing, but it's still something. 

The color choice of the green grass is really interesting. I also love how well-drawn the flowers are. It's not easy drawing flowers at all, you have to really see one in order to make it look real.

I like the design of the frog, we get more natural color schemes. Also the 5th panel below where they show Mickey Donald and Goofy as silhouettes is great. 

So much action in this singular page. I chuckled when Donald said "Ya big sissy!" I could imagine almost all the actors who voiced these timeless characters doing these lines. 

I have no idea if I might make a 2 parter of this, it's just a preview of the entire comic. I wasn't originally planning on making this without Michael Sporn's "splog". Once again thanks to him. I'm learning alot from his website feel free to check it out. 

Here's the link to the comics.

http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=3195

http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=3210