Fashion Is The Best Distraction

 

Fashion can be really easy to appreciate and love, it can be more fresh, attractive and vibrant to how you can express yourself.

Wouldn't it be great to make people entertained by the way you look or how other people look? 

I think cartoons barely go for special occasions where they dress casually or in special, unique ways.

It makes the character have more personality and a chance at being iconic.

I've been loving this genre ever since I watched The Three Stooges, almost every episode they would have different and fun outfits. 

I love the duo/trio group trope. I'm doing it myself with my characters. I think having just one character isn't as easy as it sounds. It's all fun in games when you bring another pal, or even a few more of them.

Drawing characters and making them wear clothing takes alot of work and adds more attention to the audience. They can't just be bare-naked, they have to fit into the right atmosphere and setting.

Look at Porky Pig here. In the Charlie Dog cartoons, he always wears his usual blue coat and red bow tie, here he's fit into the farmer archetype. The straw hat, overalls you name it. It's more sensible and fitting.

Characters like Bugs Bunny don't need to have too much clothes because his natural and witty personality fits perfectly with how he looks, however when he does wear fashion, it's less expressive than you think but it's still able to work decently. 

In fact, Bugs absolutely looks fine in various outfits. 

I love stuff like this. The poses, the amusing talking, A Hare Grows In Manhattan in particular is really underrated, and well told. 

It takes inspiration and influences to create something just like The Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny and this proves otherwise. 

You barely see anyone wear fashion like this anymore and it's really good to explore and experience the past. It's also visually pleasing. Everyone looks slim, clean and confident. 

I love a good bit of quirkiness and whenever one of my favorite cartoon characters or actors just go to the silly route, it's a really interesting ride. 

Sometimes weird can be funny and I believe that. When I first saw Three Stooges's Creeps (1956), I was absolutely floored by how uncanny but hilarious Moe, Larry and Shemp are dressed as babies. The short is a clip-show, but I think it has some good clips. 

While we all love to wear whatever we want and try not to be too modest and classy especially in the modern world of today, we still have to appreciate what styles and trends we have experienced so we can talk about them and send love and passion for it. We gotta be grateful somehow. 

Even in those animated versions, you can still like it and appreciate the appeal. 

I love Cock O' The Walk. It has some fantastic dance scenes, and underrated silent characters.

Not only does this 90 year old cartoon have personality but it's widely acceptable for the era. Seeing anthropomorphic roosters dance and having a rubbery boxing match feels like true cinema. I really miss stuff like this. If this ever happens again, don't make it have useless talking involved, make it have exceptional dialogue and trust-worthy and reliable characters who know how to dance and feel at ease and spirit. I'm begging for this genre to come back. 

I think the post renaissance of fashion and entertainment was the 90s and 2000s. I grew up with one of the most creative, sharp and collected TV shows I ever watched. Backyardigans was full of exploration and I loved alot of the music. I think it was clearly inspired by the classics. It's really fun and perfect for younger audiences.

Disney's Portrayal Of America's National Pasttime

 

Happy Opening Day to baseball players and fans alike. ⚾️ 

This hilarious Disney short focuses on the cartoony antics and shenanigans of playing the all natural sport, that is baseball. Jack Kinney has made other cartoons involving sports. Football, Fishing, Skiing, you name it. They were all classics.

I think what makes this short funny is how the gags work and the lively animation. Disney always was the best with animating characters but here it's done with mastery. I believe John Sibley was a part of this project, because he's one of my favorite animators as of now. 

The poses are also stellar and the right amount of attractive. It's like your ready to take your picture, it's awesome. 

Now I'm not choosing this short because it isn't as funny as Baseball Bugs or Batty Baseball, but it's probably the best of the 3 with the animation and slapstick. 

You can see the dry brush smears with the frames of the baseball bat, it's been a classic cartoon staple and I LOVE it!

Classic studios including Disney always had an era where they made the best cartoons. Looney Tunes's best was 1948-50, Fleischer's probably 1931-1933, MGM 1949-1951, and I think Disney's absolute greatest spot for the best cartoons were around 1940-1943. They had alot of expressive and conceptual ideas for almost every cartoon and you can tell that the humor and voices started to feel more free and varied.

Back to How To Play Baseball, after rewatching this one, I realized how much funny moments is amounted in this cartoon. I don't think people realize that what's funny in animation is sometimes the stuff that doesn't actually work in real life. That's what's here with Goofy trying to swing the ball but it keeps on moving and missing. It's so off the wall that I have to give it additional credit. 

I also think the moments where the character is just standing there minding their own business relates to how I am in real life. I respect well drawn and relatable sense in films.

And we get more drybrush smears. Nice. 

It's so silly that baseball teams especially in the major leagues have these truly weird and funny names. This short makes fun of either the Boston Red Sox or Chicago White Sox and I think them naming different colors is clever.

I think the crew at Disney at that time has made the best walk and running cycles in animation history. 

Especially the animators who worked for Jack Kinney and Jack Hannah. I like both of them and they continue to entertain viewers to this day. The Preston Blair book is really useful if you want to know how to animate movements like this!

Even when at times the animators are drawing the most intense and stretched frames in the entirety of the short.

I don't think this is as subtle and funny to watch than some of the other Goofy shorts but it's still really amusing and has an amazing narrator voiced by Fred Shields.

I always wondered if Tex Avery the genius behind cartoony gags and fast pacing reacted to these cartoons. Did he experience them? I would love to know. This was 1941, just about that year when Tex Avery arrived to MGM.

Never knew a ball would rip and become a piece of yarn.

I can definitely believe people hysterically laughing too much with this scene. It was pure insanity and really rare for it's time. Goofy running while the base is stuck on his shoes is comedic perfection and in the vain of small details that make this highly watchable.

Like I was saying earlier, Happy Opening Day!

1937 Snow White

 

I really missed the time when creativity was actually what people wanted to see the most. And since I believe that, I think it still should be possible.

Disney's first movie was Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937), it's still warm, simple and beautiful to look at to this day.

Last friday the new Snow White movie has officially been released. What I heard from that movie is that it changes the story and has alot of different character development. From what I seen, I don't really hate the visuals, some of it is kinda appealing but I'm not watching the film. I think it's absolutely disrespectful and a cash-grab just like every other live action remake made this decade so far.

All of the animated Disney movies even the bad ones had personality, and the amount of effort and heart that went with these films should be praised even more.  

This frame is really appealing. All the dwarfs are recognizable and portrayed perfectly. The characters have the right amount of colors to fit in the mysterious atmosphere. There isn't too much dark tones but not too bright either. It's perfect.

This movie lasted an hour and 23 minutes, and has alot of focus and memorable songs. They don't need to have too much things happening, and the characters are all logical and straightforward just like with most classic cartoons. 

Scary things in these movies can be fun and appealing. They're really in your face for a reason. Whenever movies go for a dark and spooky tone nowadays, they don't even try enough and they don't have those fun devilish expressions that'll keep you invested anymore. The animators had alot of passion with adding what works but nowadays it feels too forced and acts like schoolwork.

The characters don't need to be full of personality, but I also don't like them to be bland and uninteresting either. These characters all have interesting personalities including the queen and prince. They all have rich and playful designs and is easy to appreciate. Even if you don't like the film, you cannot simply hate it because of how important and iconic it is. There is well amount of story-telling and the sound quality isn't obnoxious, it sounds so whimsical and warm. I would love to watch this movie again. I find it amazing myself. It's just like how ambitious yet fun Disney was back in the golden age.

In my opinion I think the world is way too serious nowadays. I'm not willing to work for a popular company at this point in time. They are legitimately taking away important things and only care about grades and money. 

Movies are getting sequels, and live action remakes. 2D, musicals, and big band music don't exist anymore and I think that's disappointing.  

Eh, at least I'm trying to understand what's happening in this chaotic world we're living in.