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. 

Spongebob Season 1

Spongebob Squarepants was something special to me when I was a kid. This show introduced me to a whole new style of comedy, character personalities and color scheme. My favorite season is the 2nd one, but the best looking season to me will always be the 1st. This was the only season in the entirety of the show to use cel animation.

It was sometime in late 1998-1999, the episodes were made like this. It was also the final years of it's rise before digital computers became the main tool for animation and continued it's presence.

With cel animation, the colors looked more natural, and the characters have more expressive designs. 

My favorite episode is Ripped Pants and that has some incredible backgrounds and camera angles in it. 

While this season in particular didn't have the most timeless episodes ever, it was one of the more relaxing and grounded seasons, and that's a perfect way to start a show let alone a franchise.

I also have to mention the Bikini Atoll scenes, they made this island look too cartoony nowadays in the newer seasons. This one's my favorite. Love that sunset.

While I love nighttime backgrounds in animation, it was my least favorite parts of the episodes. Maybe it's because it looks so ominous. Barely any houses, just a barbaric environment, not too much lights, but I kinda dig this one with the Krusty Krab. 

I also loved the personalities to the actual main characters. Mr. Krabs in particular was at his best in the first season. He wasn't at his most greedy, and he actually was an honest and sincere character to his employees, that being Squidward and Spongebob of course.

This show is what got me into this natural vibe of other cartoons and art. The style of comedy is what got me to Looney Tunes and the Tex Avery shorts. This show barely had complexity and deep storytelling, and had some amusing jokes, memorable characters and a little variety. I would recommend you watching this show if you haven't. And I think you probably have because it's one of the most popular TV shows of all time.

Some of the other episodes from Season 1 caught me off guard like Rock Bottom with the green cyclops creature. This was the episode that got me more into the actual show.

I want to talk about more shows from my childhood or just anything that has beauty and nature like Spongebob. I already talked about a Disney short, you can click the link to it.

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List Of Cartoon Gags That Consider To Be Timeless

 

Cartoon gags matter in cartoons, even classic cartoons. In fact, all of these gags you've seen have been created and invented by golden age animation studios like Warner Bros. and MGM.

The most famous gag is definitely the eyes popping out. It's easily been done in a hundred cartoons already.

I enjoy the jaw dropping gag in cartoons. It's extremely expressive and really fun to animate.

Another timeless cartoon gag is when a character's eyes have some sort of symbol like a heart to show someone expressing love.

They also have money eyes. That means they can feel the sense of being rich and seeing a bunch of dollars and cents.

Eh... sometimes they can get a little too hard with the eye symbols. 

Powerpuff Girl's reboot made them have these happy emojis on their eyes and it kinda doesn't make sense and it's a little weird. Just stick to heart or money eyes.

An overlooked gag is the Screwball sign. How clever.

The lumps gag has to be my favorite out of all the classic cartoon gags because it can be so painful or just silly. It's incredible detail at times and it's a gag I want to do mostly in my cartoons. 

Dredd The Moose is probably going to get the most lumps. 

The sign gag is extremely well known in the Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons. 

The sucker gag is definitely genius. 

Gags like having the characters naked (in a appropriate way) is also funny. It mostly happens to characters like Donald, Foghorn Leghorn and Daffy.

Lastly, the jackass gag. Yes. When I first seen this gag, I was mind-blown that the animators could do whatever they want, and not care about how kid-friendly they want to be. I mean back then these cartoons were mostly aimed at adults in theatres, but nowadays I swear they need to bring this gag back. If that's not the case, then I'm doing it! 

I did some sketches my own gags and zany drawings last year, and I'm really proud of it.

My Very First Drawings I Could Find

 

I first started watching and experiencing art when I was about a year old, and I grew up watching stuff on Nick Jr. the most. Shows like Yo Gabba Gabba, The Backyardigans, Ni Hao Kai Lan, and while I watched them back then, I had a real interest in doing something that would change my life. I was extremely hands-on when I was a toddler and I mostly colored with crayons on a messy piece of paper.

This isn't what I drew when I was a toddler but this was basically what my creations pretty much looked like -

For a few years I didn't really know too much on cartoon characters because I was still really little. 😅 

But when I did, I really did and I couldn't stop drawing characters.

In fact the first drawing I ever found and discovered in my old drawings was a picture of Mario. I pretty much had limited color crayons back then but it's still a treasure. 

Another Mario character called Bob Omb I drawn the same day as I did Mario. I felt like at that time I was obsessed with the franchise. I loved the characters designs, and I played games on my DS almost every day when I was 5 or 6.

This one is really interesting for one thing I used to have when I was little.

Of course I had toys when I was really young and I remembered having Jake and The Neverland Pirates figures of Jake and Izzy with their water jets, since I liked the show when I was around 6.

This probably isn't the very first time i drew the spongebob crew but it's the first in which is existed. Mr. Krabs looks funny, Squidward's eyes are not right and I can't see where spongebob is since I guess back then I didn't have a yellow marker.

Ok, yeah, I know I wasn't allowed to watch Aqua Teen for a reason when I was about 7 but I always loved the designs of Master Shake, Frylock and Meatwad, when I first seen them they felt so different than any other character I ever seen back then.

I started to get way more skilled drawing characters when I was about 8. I was also in love for the sonic characters and basically drew every character at least the main ones. Fun Fact, I actually wanted to bring this to my elementary school once and my teachers loved it.

As of 2024, I'm a 17 year old wacky cartoonist nowadays in a love for classic animation and dancing and now my drawings look like this.

I became more of a digital artist and a cartoon character designer pro as well as drawing nostalgic like backgrounds. The future is looking bright out there.

Anyways posting more tomorrow. Bye-a! 👋