Hellzapoppin! A New Favorite Film

 

On The Town was my #1 favorite movie until today I saw Hellzapoppin'. This film is the most hilarious cinematic achievements ever made. 

Every single line of dialogue, the characters, the songs are all impeccable, it goes to show you that these cast of characters fit my humorous style very well as well as my view of creativity and life. I'm all for the breaking the 4th wall, and silly but reliable characters. 

There's lots to love about Hellzapoppin, some of these gags might've been influenced by Avery and other comedic animation directors. My favorites are the projector bits mainly the ones starring Louie played by Shemp Howard, I'm also beginning to really enjoy Hugh Herbert's character.

The gags, slapstick and moments were absolutely fun, it's what I admire about comedic geniuses like Tex Avery.

When I was also watching the projector bits from the movie, it reminded me alot of Duck Amuck, and that cartoon is hilarious. I was extremely critical with Chuck Jones's work back then but now I'm really invested in his style, especially in the early 40s to 50s. He was absoutely fantastic in those decades.

I could recall almost every moment in Duck Amuck, heck even Looney Tunes fans may agree with me. It's easily one of the most influential films of all time.

What do you think about these characters? Do they feel like they fit perfectly into story-telling, reliable narrative, and spirited energy just like the films and actors I enjoy most? 

In my personal opinion, I think they really do. I made all these characters for a reason, I didn't want to scribble and draw random crap to send to the public, I took my time to make them look simple, yet lively and memorable as possible.

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.

Happy Birthday Tex Avery!

 

Today marks the 117th birthday of one of my heroes, he did everything he could to entertain millions of people including me.

Tex Avery wasn't only just an animator, he was a very influential person. I admire almost every single one of his MGM cartoons because they changed how I experience humor, also note the expressions given in one of these cartoons are fantastic.

I would assure to say that he's more powerful than Disney. That may not be an agreement with you guys, but to me I had alot of fun watching all his short films.

Not only did his expressions influence my drawing style, but so does his straightforward, chaotic and zany nature.

Why I Respect Tex Avery 

Hey, I gotta appreciate and love other people besides my parents. Tex Avery was an exaggerated genius who loved breaking the 4th wall at times. I love to draw and his characters are too easy to steal and use, and like I said in a previous post, he isn't too keen on adding filler to his cartoons. Barely any dialogue is added, and if it does, it makes sense so does other classic studios. 

While Avery hasn't been with us for 45 years, I don't want anyone to forget about this amazing person for a very long time. He's truly one of the best people in the entertainment industry.

Wanna experience some goodies in honor to pay tribute?

Here's some funny clips 

One of my favorites as of now!

Iconic song!

Love this one too! The bear's performance is hilarious.

His work at Warner Bros. is severely underrated, this is my favorite Looney Tunes cartoon by his and has the most hilarious character in it voiced by Tex himself!

In appreciation I made a drawing with one of my main characters.

Happy Birthday Tex Avery, your a legend, and you'll never be missed. 🎉 🥕 

Tortoise And The Hare - Part 2

 

As previously mentioned in Part 1, I had a little flipbook with my tortoise and the hare project.

You'll be seeing the rest on paper.

Enjoy!

Yep. All finished. Hoped you really liked it. 

I would like to talk about what went into this cartoon.

This cartoon is paying homage to those Tex Avery fairytale cartoons. The beginning is sorta like Torotise Beats Hare (1941) mixed in with Red Hot Riding Hood (1943). 

While talking about Tex Avery, I also love the Bob Clampett animation. His best films were from 1943-1946. It's so sad that he never got a chance to make more cartoons after 1946, he would've been unstoppable like Chuck Jones.

Falling Hare is probably my most influential out of Clampett's cartoons, that doesn't mean it's the best though. I just love the animation when Bugs fights with the gremlin. 

If they won't allow me using dynamite in the actual cartoon, I'm going to be pissed.

This is also the first time we get to see Cedric The Cat. He's one of my main characters. And this is my first drawing of him.

Well, that's it for now. Here's the official poster. It's also inspired by those outstanding classic animated posters. 

Tortoise And The Hare - Part 1

 Ladies and gentleman, and also pets too, introducing the first finished Artmania cartoon....

You'll expect a different sidestory of how the rabbit actually defeated the turtle, and is also hilarious, fast-moving and nerve-wracking for all ages!

This is obviously a re-telling of the classic fable, The Tortoise and The Hare. As it tells the important moral slow and steady wins the race, or is it, really?

I love a little bit of fairytales and nursery rhymes myself, I even like it a little more when their funny parodies. Disney, Warner Bros and even MGM have been doing it for 90 years.

The most well-known re-telling of Torotise and The Hare was the Silly Symphony version. I really liked it but I don't think it was that outstanding. Max Hare impressing the girl rabbits just goes on for too long. 

But how do we fix that?

By this!!!

How The Hare Dood It!

This title was similar to Tex Avery's The Early Bird Dood It, I just gotta love that title. 

My future for making cartoons is bringing back the 4th wall breaks. Remember when those were just hilarious? 

Next, I will show you what the cartoon is going to be like with the little book I made. 

It has a few pages. Surprisingly I ran out of room, tomorrow you'll see the rest of the storyboard drawings on paper.

(Apologize for my hands distracting the pictures, I had to hold my phone somehow since this book isn't folded that well)

That's all I have. No more pages, even though there's still more.

Remember how annoying the gremlin was in Falling Hare? That's what my tortoise is like. He's a shameless cheater.

I also love those cartoons like with Red Hot Riding Hood when the wolf gets fed up by the same story told over and over. 

These characters can be so relatable and observed that I just miss these types of animated films.

Modern animated films nowadays are basically emotional, or there isn't any logical dialogue. 

I remember when I was in middle school, a teacher would show us these type of films, and I can tell you, they were boring and nothing special.

Part 2 Tomorrow 

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