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Never-before-published model sheets for canned Amblin Cats movie 🐈‍⬛✏️👁️

Hi all. As promised, I am sharing a comprehensive .PDF of model sheets that were created for the Amblimation Cats movie that never saw the light of day. Most of these model sheets have not been published or posted anywhere on the internet as far as I'm aware. I'm going to get ahead of some questions for the good of the order:

Are these real? I certainly didn't sit and create all 117 pages myself for the sake of an elaborate hoax!

How did you get these? I work in the animation industry. A senior coworker caught wind of my cats obsession and said he had the Xeroxes and asked if I wanted him to bring them in. Internally, I flipped my shit. And then I digitized his hard copies.

How did your coworker get these? They were found in the library of the university he used to go to. (Not super unusual at an arts school in southern California.) He made photo copies back then and has been holding onto them. The thing is he knows nothing about CATS; isn't a CATS fan, never seen it, etc. I guess he just felt it was something worth holding on to!

Can you upload better quality? Unfortunately what you're seeing as good as the quality gets. These are scans of photocopies from the 90s. There is nothing to be done for the crunchiness.

What about (missing characters)? I'm showing you everything I was personally given!

Which character is (nondescript drawing of a cat)? If the image isn't labeled, your guess is as good as mine! I put all the misc./unlabeled cats in the back of the PDF. The only exceptions are ones that I felt were abundantly obviously supposed to be a specific character.

Who are the artists? Unfortunately, there's no way I can tell for sure. None of the sheets are signed. I wouldn't even go about guessing because many concept artists can perfectly emulate more "well known" illustrators whose styles were sought after. My coworker said he might be able to figure out who the draftsmen were; until then it's a mystery! If I find out, I will come back to this post and update it with that information.

Are these all the model sheets ever? No! In fact, there are model sheets that have been posted online that are not in the bundle I was given. I have no idea of the sum total of model sheets in existence.

Where's the link?! Here it is! Have fun kitties!

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highlight of ep 68 for me. when caleb is momentarily turned feral and cad just calmly soothes him like a toddler 😂

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(do not separate)

silly empire siblings while I figure out how to draw them

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the hanged man

(if yall could interact w this post regardless of how you feel about it that would be great bc I spent a lot of fucking time on it)

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I just want you to know you're fueling my Cats hyperfixation to absurd levels. I'm never getting out of this cat shaped hole

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hi. is there a mighty nein or critical role discord server out there in the digital ether?? this is me casting out my net

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Im sorry yall ik I havent been posting a whole lot lately but I promise Ive been chugging away at making art (lotsa cats fan art in particular) I just keep forgetting to post on tumblr. I have to remember to migrate some of my stuff to my blog. in the meantime heres a couple sneak peaks of a project Ive been working on! ദ്ദി（ˉ ꒳ ˉ マ.ᐟ

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Hi, I've found something interesting. Christian Schellewald, who used to work as an animator for Amblimation, has posted drawings from the CATS film on his website. Here's the link for reference: https://cwschellewald.art/cats-2/ Let me know what you think!

Awesome find! Thank you for sharing!

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yeah we can tell you haven't actually watched the show you don't have to tell us

few things about this account. this is no gimmicks, strigaht from the hip, real shit. i don't "DO" pranks or gags. logged on, at your service.

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Ive only seen the first season and a half of 911 but it doesnt matter here's what I think should happen. this is very obvious to me

needless to say the shows been loudly and obnoxiously setting up buddie without actually executing and it's like is this a slow burn or is it just baiting the queers. or what.

so we know how tommy shows up after eddie goes to texas and tells buck they should get back together "now that the competition is gone." competitions back!! basically through a semi-complicated matrix of happenstances, eddie ends up exploring his repressed queerness with tommy. eddies figuring shit out and tommy has always thought he's hot, so win-win. are they both lowkey thinking about buck while fucking?? shhhhh

both understand that this is not serious, not a commitment. it's casual fucking between a kinsey 6 and a bicurious thirty-five year-old. bros helping bros! eddie didnt pursue buck to this end btw because he cares too much about buck and is concerned about hurting him. tommy and eddie are both obviously keeping this encounter on the dl.

however! buck picks up on lil things. yk like he smells tommys cologne the next morning on eddie or smth and is like O_o what fragrance are you wearing. eddie's like ?? I don't wear --- OH and then weaves some clunky tale about how he just found a sample bottle at the bottom of his sock drawer

and buck is like (≖_≖ ) okay. but then later he finds something that is very specifically tommys in eddies room. he probably went in there to begin w for something super banal, like a phone charger. let's say the scandalous item in question is tommys lafd 217 regulation sweatshirt or smth. that confirms buck's suspicions beyond a reasonable doubt. he confronts eddie just by like. holding up the sweatshirt. eddie didn't even notice that tommy accidentally left that behind. so he's like O_O fuck-

ofc the classic fallout proceeds, the "it's not what you think," and "let me explain," and buck is clearly upset and emotional because for years their whole thing has been like, buck self-admittedly has had feelings for eddie but didn't feel emotionally compelled to sleep with him because eddie's been insisting that he's straight. but now it's like oh you're queer after all and instead of talking to me about this revelation, you go and sleep with my ex? that I had to pine over while he was pursuant of you? wow wow wowwww. but he's also going like no no it's okay! I'm not in charge of who you see. but hes saying that w like barely restrained tears, and leaves

so eddies left there like 🧍‍♂️ done fucked up. now him and tommy have to majorly majorly damage control. neither of them takes it lightly that they jointly hurt somebody they both care about. meanwhile buck is despondent and josh tries to cheer him up by taking him to a gay club or smth

drama drama drama prob some near death experience happens on the job that forces buck and eddie to properly communicate before one or both of them dies, but then neither of them dies, and they get together ☺️ happy ending and the crowd goes wild

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Drop your fave version of tuggoffelees? (Doodle or text post)

I am so sorry it has taken me so long to answer this. but Ive been turning it over in my head intermittently for months lmao

really hard to say what version is my fav but I keep going back to us6 with zach bravo and paul giarattano. saur cute the boyfriends ever

this is not them or any specific actors lol but pls take this tuggoffelees doodle as a token of my appreciation for the ask uwu

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Just saw a local Cats production and thought you would appreciate that at the start of Gus the Theatre Cat Mistoffelees lay down on a ledge all elegantly folded arms and all, Tugger walked up to him from the bellow the ledge, Tugger’s head was at the same level as Misto’s so they nuzzled, and they proceeded to remain next to each other like that until the Pawlicle battle. It was adorable

On another note your art is AHDHSJ joy I love it so much :DD I shall consume

AWWWW YAY TY FOR TELLING ME that's saur cute augh

adds to list of things I must draw

also ty for the kind words <3

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Hi! I just read through your whole "screw qui-gon" rant and I'm wildly intrigued by pretty much all of it, but haven't read a lot of star wars stuff. Curious if "Masters and Apprentice" is worth checking out, and if you have any other recs for a dear obi-wan kenobi enjoyer <3

Id recommend 'wild space' just because it's written 1:1 fanfiction style with extremely gratuitous amounts of whump, and also it features bail organa and obi-wan kenobi having to endure The Horrors together, and imo that's a fun rare combo. anakin and obi-wan are separated for most of the book but anakin is beside himself about obi-wan's absence. and there's a bit of good lore dropped regarding some of obi-wan's apprenticeship under qui-gon. keep in mind it falls into the 'legends' catalogue, so "not canon," but wtf is canon in the bullshit fever dream landscape of star war

as for 'masters and apprentice' ahhhhhh idk. it's lame if you're looking for a modicum of sincerity and sweetness between jinn and obi-wan. idk why writers in the sci-fi action realm are so allergic to emotional vulnerability and affection and so on and so forth but the book is just over all dry and qui-gon is so, SO very insufferable. borderline negligent and cold towards obi-wan and never communicates shit to him but you already saw me rant about all that lmao. Id be down for a complicated, turbulent master-student relationship, but qui-gon never faces any fucking consequences and it's obi-wan who's framed like he's i the wrong, and that gets on my nerves so badly

um um the now-not-canon 'kenobi' novel I started but never finished. sorry yall I thought the lady was dry and I didnt gaf about her and I felt it was weird that the author couldnt help herself but to shoehorn in some hetero ass romantic tension

'padawan' I have but never started lmao. based on the description it sounds like obi-wan and qui-gon are separated for most of it and it sounds like qui-gon is a manchild idiot like always but! I cant in good conscience tell you one way or the other whether it's worth the read because. I havent read it lmao

the jedi apprentice series I got halfway through. the first like three or four books is interesting enough, really focusing on the (albeit often frustrating) dynamic between kenobi and jinn. but then it started to get more into detached, formulaic adventuring, and obi-wan and qui-gonn kept getting separated. the xanatos lore was mostly fun though, if you can get past how painfully obvious it is that none of this is canon lol. there is ofc more heterosexual bullshit w the author feeling the need to set up obi-wan w one of his persnickety classmates, and since this is ~*the 90s*~, the authors commentary on this thirteen year-old girl is so insanely uncomfy. and the discussion about how "weird" it is that her hair is buzzed short "like a boy" hello??? aren't we in star wars???? theres ppl w gills and shit and you still feel the need to lampshade postmodern western gender standards over a middle schoolers HAIR??? orz anyway!! you also get the melida/daan stuff out of j/a which is an interesting and notorious arc but it's also fucking infuriating in some respects bc qui-gonn could not have handled that situation worse. and part of the reason he so egregiously fumbled (this is what I was talking about w the 'leaving your sixth grader child weaponless and homeless on a war-torn planet with no way of getting back and never attempting to look for him and even snubbing him when he calls oUT FOR HELP) is because of!! guess!!! *~heterosexual bullshit~* I really want to like taal but the way shes used a macguffin for Jinn Angst makes her repulsive to me. thats the authors fault tho she didn't do anything wrong </3

theres another book I leafed. I cant even remember wtf it's called (checks amazon purchase history) rogue planet. this book takes place shortly after obi-wan began mentoring anakin. so ig theres potential there w exploring a pretty nebulous period of both characters' lives. but everybody said rogue planet was fucking strange (even! for STAR WARS!) and I was like cmone how bad can it be. anyway I read it and yes it's bizarre. anakin is really annoying but ig that's appropriate for his nine year old ass self. qui-gon somehow manages to be a huge bitch FROM THE GRAVE!!!

and then theres 'brotherhood' which is also gathering dust on my shelf unread. I was just skimming through it when I first got it and it seemed par for the course w sci-fi action writer not being allowed, or not personally having the wherewithal, to write a compelling familial relationship between two men. also it seemed like anakin and obi-wan are separated for a lot of it, just like obi-wan and jinn in 'padawan.' what the fuck is the poooinnnttt but idk!! grain of salt!!! I didn't actually read it!!!

tl;dr: read 'wild space' it's great. ignore everything else. have fun!

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Im renaming my cats fan project lmao very big and extreme news

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recent kitties!!

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I love you too.

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Hello! For reference (and probably later research), did your coworker mention which university library it was that stores the CATS model sheets? It's such a fascinating find!

He did not and I didn't ask. I can though next time I see him and see if he's comfortable with sharing that information.