Ox Fisher's Hidden Inspiration?

 

Anyone know who this guy is? 

I seem to like almost every character I made that's condemned official. Ox Fisher is probably the only character I can ever think of that is easily inspired by an actor. 

At first when I designed him, he was just the typical giant bulky dude like with Pete and Bluto, but after I discovered Laurel and Hardy's Music Box, I loved Billy Gilbert's scenes. 

He definitely deserves more recognition since all he is ever credited for is his sneezing and his more popular roles. I love his meltdowns the best. My favorite being Pardon My Scotch. 

I love this guy.

To be fair, a few months later I really liked how uniquely drawn my character was and decided to make him a real character instead of leaving him in the dust. 

He had to have potential somehow. 

Later I then experienced a Mickey Mouse short titled "Mickey's Gala Premiere" and at the start there were these odd and unusual looking celebrities as officers and the one in the middle I wanted to know who that was. 

I couldn't tell if it was actually Billy Gilbert or not, but after researching it, it was a silent film era star named Mack Swain. After looking into it, I was immediately speechless and left off saying, "I made a character that felt like it was inspired by someone that I didn't even know when I first made him."

Anything similar?

(This was the first design of the character btw)

Back in the silent era of films especially in comedies, everyone was so unique and funny looking that they almost felt like cartoon characters before cartoons became a thing. 

I don't watch alot of them because they don't really fit my style and I'm not a fan of dead-pan acting. I do like some silent characters like The Keystone Kops and The Fleischers crew. 

I could understand why these were such hits back in the early 20th century, heck I would be pleased with it if I was born at that time. Sometimes the films can have distinct expressions and there is some narrative to be had. What I despised about 1900s films nowadays is that sometimes in like a old rigid copy or an almost lost print, the scenes would necessarily skip at times or whenever a person is lip-syncing, it doesn't actually show the words which always irritated me. 

Back to Swain. Just look at how similar he is in vain to Ox Fisher. His short mustache, his cartoonish eyes, the bold menacing eyebrows, the size of the character, it's basically a coincidence.

Now all of you might be saying that "Ox Fisher is just a thing you created just for this post alone." But like I said earlier, he's confirmed to be a part of the artmania canon. I'm planning to do alot to this guy and so does others. 

It's hard to say Ox Fisher is ripped off by a century old actor. Yet this is what he actually looks like in real life.

I love the color cards.

While making this post it also reminded me of another post I did where I reviewed a 1980s animated short called Real Inside. 

https://sngexplorationblog.blogspot.com/2024/11/where-has-this-animated-short-been-all.html?m=1

Recent Artmania Drawings Cuz I'm Bored

 

Today was kinda "eh" so for now I'll post my usual art.

I never ever read The Three Billy Goats Gruff before but I do know it stars three goats and a troll. Just like with the chihuahua and poodle movie idea I made on Valentine's Day, They're going to get their own feature film. 

You know how obsessed Disney is with their fairytale adaptations and somewhat decently handled original stories? Not all of the Disney movies based off fables were good. In fact some of them don't shut the hell up like with the two kings in Sleeping Beauty. 

Have you seen a fairytale adaptation that's similar to the original story? Not all of them, but even if they don't relate, it still can hold up.

What I like about Wizard Of Oz, Pinocchio, and Matilda was that they had more of a comedic and expressive approach. The slapstick, the style of songs and acting all feel different than what literature gives you.

{ THE ARTMANIA SHOW }

I made some new experiments to save the show. I added a phone. It's one of those antique wall telephones back in the 30s. I really love those. Wonder how they worked. 

Pretty cool to learn history in a show for once.

FIRST EPISODE 

The first isn't always the very first. I knew that from one of Tex Avery's shorts at MGM. His first short he made at that studio was The Early Bird Dood It but it was 2nd to be released.

But promise me, the first episode is going to be the very first of the Artmania Show. 

While I was stumbling across some entertaining shows nowadays, Mickey Mouse Funhouse has a pretty perfect start to their first episode. It begins with Mickey and his friends at his house until they open up their imaginative funhouse and begin their adventure there. I think the show is an approvement over the previous entries. It has a banger theme song and cute 3D designs. 

Where could I start with The Artmania Show? These are some random doodles of Phillips and Szac. One shows Szac thinking that making a stage theater is expensive, but since it's a cartoon, you can make it up as you go a long. 

That's what I love about art. 

Ox Fisher is what y'all are seemingly liking lately as far as I'm concerned. I mean he was based off an actor I think should get more recognition.

CROSSOVERS

I first heard about this type of genre when Hanna-Barbera was doing it. Seriously these were everywhere when I was born. We had Tom and Jerry pairing with Wizard of Oz. That's interesting. 

So why can I do it myself? 

The Princess

Cinderella would work perfectly in any genre.

I mean how simple is just going to the ball, and party until it's midnight? Sounds like a good plot for a TV episode.

I feel completely lost on this one because I really want to add the Disney version of it because it's the best looking there ever will be. 

But I dunno. Maybe if I manage to reach my career to the year 2046, it'll work.

But it is public domain, so whatever works I suppose.

Whenver you guys make something that has to involve heaven and hell, I'll totally make an animated segment of my designs of the angel and devil. 

I could imagine a live action musical centered around heaven and hell and having some stylish costume choices, like the angel being swapped to a boy and singing soothing songs while a bunch of harps float around in the spiritual clouds. While in hell, a sassy queen-size devil woman hails all her imps to perform some black metal songs.

School Drawing Shenanigans 

I'm almost out of school, and I'm not feeling the groove for it anymore. I don't care about it a bit anymore, but whatever the case, I still gotta finish whatever throws at me, and whenever it's time to break loose, I draw once more. 

I designed various poses of Dredd in his show suit.

I mostly studied it with the scenes involving Zoot Suit Daffy in Book Revue. 

This is Daffy at his most attractive.

Snoopy and Woodstock Don't Get Along

You know those stupidly foul parodies from popular TV shows and media back then? It's still a thing to this day. I like some of them like Saturday Night Live's Disney Vault. The Simpsons and Family Guy had some solid parodies, song parodies can also be stellar, even sometimes being better than the actual original, I like Weird Al, but mostly I like fairytale parodies done by classic cartoons. 

What do I make?

 

A comic about Snoopy talking and Woodstock complaining about it like the stubborn pale canary he is. 

Take this as a TV-14 demographic if you must.

THE THREE PIGS ARE SCREWED

Here I made an adult-oriented three little pigs. I didn't like the third act so here's the two acts.  

Truth is, these pigs personality traits feel similar with The Three Pigs Walt Disney made in 1933. I always loved the practical pig the best because the other two are completely identical to each other.

I think Sovia works as a golden age Disney film. Unfortunately, it's not as easy to boot up. Sequels, sequels, sequels. Mostly live action movies too.

I wanted Sovia to sound like an average joette, who speaks clearly it'll make you blush. As for her sidekick, The Working Squirrel, I'll have to hire an actor, it'll be more of a surprise.

Sovia is the Bambi of our modern generation. Lively nature scenes, an animal companion and a feminine protagonist. Main fact, is that there isn't a fictional villain, the villain is basically the rainforest where the characters live.

Here's the rest of the drawings I made this time at my comfort place.

TOM AND JERRY ADULT SKETCH

GENERIC DOG TALES 

Don't ask.

12th Grade School Doodles

Let's take a break on the oldies and focus on the newies.

First is the dancing sketches from a cartoon It's A Cat's Thing where it has inspiration from all sorts of classic cartoons I appreciate.

I would call them animation samples. Just like with music samples. These were inspired by Bugs's meltdown scenes in Tortoise Wins By A Hare. 

I made a bunch of doodles of Floppy. He's described as the old-fashioned trickster. Wouldn't say Bugs Bunny but more or so The Dodo from Porky In Wackyland with those dot eyes.

Assumingly, last autumn, I was experimenting more on what Dredd and Szac's personality would end up being. I sorta sketched them doing on-stage performances. 

Then I did another half where Dredd is portrayed as a medieval knight fighting for life hosted by Ox Fisher played as a Roman emperor.

I seen many versions of this done decently, but with Ox Fisher starring the role, it's like if Billy Gilbert came yelling aggressively to everyone in a gladiator arena. 

I still haven't thought about an actual name to give this clown besides something like Cluster but I don't know. I hate that name alot, apologies to anyone named Cluster, it just doesn't sound pleasing.

These are supposedly storyboards, but they don't have the squares to feel like their ordered correctly.

This is in fact in order and I managed to come up with my intro to the shorts I plan to make, I have a secret love for those smiley face heads, and the short is called Layin' Eggs. The main character, Henrietta Hen is Mr. Cockedee's wife. This has brief inspiration to Tex Avery and Clampett expressions. Y'know, what a classic cartoon should do.

Holy cow, I forgot I made this much duos even since I first drawn my first ones Dutcher and Ben Obvious.

I mean, I love Abbott And Costello, Laurel and Hardy, Sam and Ralph, and George and Junior so I was just all in it for the two pair cliche in cartoons. 

These are all scrapped ideas of a cat and kangaroo and what I think of just based on the drawings, is that the cat is friends with the kangaroo but wants to eat him. And here the cat is doing all of these Bugs Bunny Rod Scribner expressions.

This was me trying to copy several frames of the black cat in Kitty Kornered saying "Ah! I think I've got it!"

One of the few characters I managed to capture the Looney Tunes style is Ralph Cat. This was definitely made at the start of 12th grade, and just by looking at it, you can see a bunch of changes like the conservative stiff poses and him saying Bye-A like with my first few posts.

Kitty Kornered is one of the best cartoons of all time. When I was 16, I used to replay that beginning part where Porky kicks the cats out of his house and laughing every single time Porky says "four". It seriously gets me every time I hear it. And so does the designs of the characters, they are easy to draw. 

You see Wags Watson, Astro-Cat and Sly C from the Northern Alley Cats, basically the common household pets are all in one drawing. But I did manage to practice drawing those expressions from a Tex Avery cartoon Droopy's Double Trouble. 

Next I wanted to redesign a character I made back when I first designed Dredd and Szac, his name is Karl.

I always have time to revamp some of my characters to make them look original and simple as possible. Back then these guys looked abstract and crinkly as possible, so when I researched into more cartoon studios and Preston Blair I realized that, if you just make your characters look more detailed and full of form and life, people will find it much better to appreciate your work. 

I look into my old work from 2018-2019, and man I'm not happy. Good thing I have this blog so that everyone can freely appreciate how my artwork has improved nowadays.