Animation Character Panels

 

I just found out who made these, the blog goes by the name Deja View and is taken over by Andreas Deja. He's great, he's also a big huge fan of animation and is an animator. 

Check out the full blog!

https://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/?m=1

These are called character panels, and lately I've been loving them and inspired me to create my own panels with my own original characters.

Here's some with all the classic Disney characters. 

The sketches are all beautifully drawn and lively, great for study, and interesting to observe.

I love all of these, it's hard for me to say which one appeals to me the most.

With this image, I do like Maleficent's pose, and I like Robin Hood's sword. 

This has only a few amount of characters. Still really good.

This is the first panel I ever seen. I visit this particular image more often, reasons as to why that is it's because it was used on the model sheets page on a website called traditionalanimation.com. 

If you scroll down and see my drawings that reference these character designs, you can see a few I copied.

Now here's my actual drawings resembling the panels.

These are all my characters.

Now these are ones I drew on my Samsung Notes app on my device.

The Disappointing Rise Of Artificial Intelligence

 

Yikes... when I saw this I needed to talk about A.I once again.

A.I especially in media is everywhere nowadays. It's absolutely disgraceful in every single way. The reasons as to why I don't like it at all its because it ruins creativity as a whole.

We're at a new high where we have been fooled by numerous fake artists with it's unrealistic visual appeal and broken illustrations here and there. 

Everything at this point feels bankrupt and lazy. This isn't how the world works in situations like this.

But enough talk, what I actually got here is "REAL" kids books I bought and loved ever since. 

This is a Little Golden Book made in 1950, you can clearly tell it's extremely pleasing and well-drawn. Nothing's really complex or worth expensive appeal, but that's what makes this book and the others particularly fun and interesting. 

Everything you see is all hand-crafted, it's cute and really remarkable. I love that little detail of Santa using one of his paint-brushes.

This one has a unique color palette to it. It's original and very stylish without being too typical and modernistic.

Beautiful narration is given in alot of these books, the story-telling is all understandable. It feels like another bit of fun and excitement has been offered by one of your favorite characters.

There are over millions of people who would love to have a job where they can use all their successful talent to create whatever they please and could have an impact. Little Golden Books was more than just aiming for a younger audience, it span over a course of thousands of books for any person to enjoy. The amount of effort was all on the creative geniuses behind their hard work.

While not everything you see in stores has A.I products, ho-ho trust me fella, it somehow exists. 

Like this one here. What even is this? I mean I gotta give it credit I like how this book is talking about life lessons and it has some sort of learning in it but those illustrations, it's too in your face in the worst reasons possible. It's all generated and could cost you few seconds of your time to get final results. Guys I know that drawing something appealing takes a long time, but it doesn't last forever, unless, don't even try to make books at all and focus on other hobbies that feel real and inventive.

This is probably what they're thinking here. This is the total opposite of the A.I art. I absolutely adore the rest of the illustrations from this book. The houses, the environment, everything about it strikes talent and care.

This one too.

I have a little teeny tiny theory about the world we're living in right now, do people really think forgetting about actual phenomenal artists can't make something spectacular and show it to the world?

My favorite modern artist is Allison Friend. She makes one of the cutest, most funniest paintings I ever seen. She's the reason as to why real art should always be timeless. 

Looks simple but definitely alot of hard-work went into the paintings. It really pays off with self-motivation and skill.

This one below has emotion and a heartwarming touch which is what A.I seems to fail at the most.

I love when artists make people happy in general. 

If you wanna see more of her artwork, and you have either Facebook or Instagram, feel free to check her page out. 

Back to Golden Books...

What I truly love about the more simpler times of art was how humble and genuine it really looked. It didn't need to go insane or cinematic which is what I love about the classic characters and art styles.

Not only does it look tremendously off, but the title in this one is absolutely horrendous. Factory is being used twice but one of them spells it wrong and the fact that the cover art looks so undeniably polished. 

Not only does this count videos, and countless other mediums in art, but coloring pages as well! Seriously, this is even worse!

I mean, sure why not, drawing is not the easiest thing to do, but I'm actually horrified that these are getting recognition. It's to the point that what I'm saying is becoming a false lie.

Capitalism, money and fast-paced working schedules are becoming more common. Art isn't becoming what's it used to and neither does realism in general. 

If you want to see more A.I slop talk from me here's a link. You'll enjoy it. 

https://sngexplorationblog.blogspot.com/2025/02/artifical-intelligence-anti-art.html?m=1

The Golden Touch (1935)

This gorgeous little masterpiece is already 90 years old and it's remastering looks like it was made yesterday. 

I'm not going through this short in full examination rather me just talking mostly about the characters and the overall scenery setting. 

We get an inside look of the kingdom, I love the colors to the stone walls. The rest of the colors here are limited but extremely pleasant.

King Midas is a very strong and likeable protagonist. I don't think I ever seen a king this well-drawn and truly distinctive. Usually Disney animates male monarchs the same. 

In all seriousness, I truly love these poses he gives off to the audience as he sings.

When an elf named Goldie appears, the stone walls changes colors. This is even more magical and impressive than you think.

Also to note, this is one of the more longer Disney shorts out there clocking in at exactly 10 minutes. That's amazing, there's more of a focus here and that's what makes this specific cartoon underrated.

When Goldie disappears alongside giving Midas the Golden Touch, the walls change back to the usual colors.

Once things really begin, the whole cartoon has more backgrounds to really keep you invested. This is monumental. During the rise of technicolor, Disney knew where they were heading when it became a trend. 

Usually in early Silly Symphonies cartoons when it's daytime and it's those blue skies and clouds, the whole print ends up looking unpleasant and sickening. This is perfectly solid and really astonishing to look at.

Usually nowadays I'm not too keen on medieval themes. Sometimes it works perfectly other times it's pretty predictable. I like how interesting this entire castle is though. I love the playful personality given to Midas, he's really underappreciated. 

This is my favorite part from this film. When King Midas realizes he's touching every object he gets aggressive and it's absolutely amusing to watch even though I kinda feel sorry for him.

This design of the Golden Grim Reaper is stellar.

This wouldn't been possible for me to talk about without a blog I've been loving lately. 

Michael Sporn is a magnificent blogger. You should really invest this site. I have the link to the post if you wanna check it out.

https://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=5389