mrblitz’s animation takes

Some stuff about animation or whatever

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Character designs by Chuck Jones for a proposed sequel to his 1942 ground-breaking “The Dover Boys,” circa mid-1950s.

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Selzer was sleeping on this I swear to fuck

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Character designs by Chuck Jones for a proposed sequel to his 1942 ground-breaking “The Dover Boys,” circa mid-1950s.

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The way Mr Bug Goes To Town got advertised will never not be funny to me. Literally describing the film like it will blow your mind and change your life. Motherfucker I watched the film and it was not THAT funny. I wasn’t spasming and shitting my pants out of laughter.

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Rewatching APC: Naked Beach Frenzy, and Katie Rice

Aw, shit, one of the lead artists in this episode was one of the people who would later accuse John of being a perverted shitbag?! Yeah, this won’t age well.

All jesting aside, I happen to be a fan of Rice’s work. Now, I (obviously) do not KNOW her on a personal level but she, to me, is something else.

To give you an example of what I mean look at these women designed by Nick Cross.

Now, I’m not trying to invalidate Cross’s work. His designs are pretty good. But they look a little bit mushy… grotesque even. He works better with the hairy ass lifeguard.

But when you see KATIE’S girls… oh-HOH…

They may possibly be the most appealing, cutest  things to come out of APC. Like I said in my “appeal” post, cuteness is appeal.

Katie’s designs also helped me understand construction. This was one of the very first episodes I saw of Adult Party Cartoon and I traced the “Soap Girl” faces in my app.. specifically these ones to be exact.  Before I was using construction, I just didn’t apply it well. 

And then I traced these…

And I finally understood construction.

That being said, I do think her designs look a sliver too youthful. Some people might mistake them for teenagers. (Though knowing this show was created by John “Officer, I didn’t mean to diddle kids, I’m just bipolar!” Kricfalusi, I suppose it was only a matter of time.)

Katie’s spectacular designs all goes to show that the real people who mainly added to Ren and Stimpy were the writers and storyboarders and layout fellas, and not just John.

So take your shitty blog and SHOVE IT, ya perv!

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talking about Black animation has me realizing i don’t think i ever really talked about Frank Braxton much on here. he was the first Black animator to work in Hollywood—he had a very short stint at Disney’s (predating Floyd Norman) in the early ‘50s, which sadly only lasted a few months. but he met Benny Washam, one of Chuck Jones’ top animators at WB, while taking singing lessons together and they became friends (pictured above)

Washam wanted Braxton to work as his animation assistant for him. so, he intimidates Eddie Selzer into hiring Braxton by essentially saying “i hear WB has a racist policy and won’t hire Black animators”, knowing that’d make Selzer sweat and then went “okay, if that’s not true then i have someone looking for a job and i want him to be my assistant”.

Washam had grown up in the Ozarks and, according to Corny Cole, had witnessed lynchings in his childhood, which stuck with him. he grew up very socially conscious. later in his life, he would run an animation workshop out of his own home and teach people how to be animators for no charge.

Braxton would later go on to work for Shamus Culhane, Jay Ward, Format Films, John Sutherland, John Hubley and Bill Melendez, even becoming the president of the Screen Cartoonist’s Guild in 1960–potentially the first Black person to be hired as the president of any Hollywood union. Washam was likewise very involved in the union, so it’s likely he encouraged Braxton to do the same

sadly, Frank would die in 1969 at only the age of 40 from Hodgkin’s lymphoma, with A Boy Named Charlie Brown being his last credit. i wish his story was longer and wish there was more to his story, but it’s nevertheless a fascinating one and it’d be nice to hear the first Black animator in Hollywood to get a bit more recognition

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Rewatching APC: Onward And Upward Layouts

i wonder who did these layouts? these close up shots look very appealing!

Unlike this monstrosity.

This might be Vincent Waller. He always makes Ren look like a goblin.

These 2 are Eddie Fitzgerald, I guess. His stimpy sort of looks like a Wacky World of Tex Avery drawing. Not sure about the Ren one though.

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What is Appeal To Me?

In my days of drawing, I stumbled upon this principle of animation: Appeal. I was like, "Isn't appeal subjective?" I had a really hard time just defining it since it's such a subjective thing. But anyways, here's what I believe appeal to be.

Cute Characters

Yeh, this is the biggest part of appeal. Our brains are trained to accept friendly looking characters, like women, kids, and animals and find them appealing, especially if they've got big eyes and small noses like Clampett's Porky and Raven's Steven have. This is why SpongeBob and Steven Universe are more popular than....

...whatever this is.

Exaggerated Posing

Exaggerated posing is another way to appeal, I think. It immediately catches the audience's eye more than any of the poses you see on Family Guy do.

Cartoony emotions are very appealing, too.

Artists To Study When Searching For Appeal.

Katie Rice

Katie Rice is a very cool designer and a profoundly underrated artist. She reminds me a lot of Over The Garden Wall, Adventure Time, and the like. I believe you can check out her work on @katiejrice! I'd like to post some of her art on Skadi and Camp Weedontwancha, but unfortunately, some of them are lost.

Raven Molisee

Molisee worked on Ed, Edd, N' Eddy as a storyboarder, and it shows in her Steven Universe work! Her expressions are very loose and wacky, yet adorable at the same time. Especially when she draws steven. Such a shame she left the show. You can find her on @raveneesimo

Chris Reccardi

Alas, Chris Reccardi's gone to his final reward. But his reputation as an ANIMATION LEGEND lives on! His poses are full of zest and appeal, just stripping an action to their most wackiest essential! ESPECIALLY in Hermit Ren and Hard Times For Haggis.

I'd post more of appealing artists, but i'm running out of time, and besides, my computer's lagging. Just remember the principles of appeal:

Cute, or minimalist characters that are easy to see, and easy to draw. (Clampett, Molisee, Rice)

Funny poses that strip down an action to it's most exaggerated variant (Tex Avery, Reccardi, Kurtzman)

Exagerrated faces that are funny but not grotesque (Modern SpongeBob Crew, Reccardi, Bob Camp)

That's all for now! I'll talk more about this some other time.

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while I do think Vox is one of the stronger characters in Hazbin hotel, I still have gripes, mainly, Vox’s origin. In season 2, it’s revealed that Vox was originally a weatherman in the 40’s or 50’s by name of Vincent Whittman who climbed his way to the top by murdering people and making viewers part of a cult, until he died when a TV fell on him and his followers.

I have a few questions.

Vincent’s only bears a passing resemblance to Vox’s design. I know this is one of those shows that is very mixed so I’m not expecting a lot. But at least Alastor’s design looked the same as his human design. let’s compare ‘em side by side.

SKINNY CHUD THAT LOOKS LIKE JOHN KRICFALUSI

EVIL FUCKASS TV GUY

See that difference? And sure you may say that in the last part in the “Brighter” segment he looks a BIT like Vox, but that’s only because of the color scheme.

2. Why the FUCK is it placed in the midcentury era? (1946-1960)? Granted it may unintentionally explain his racism and xenophobia but it doesn’t do anything other than that. People always criticize alastor for appropriating the aesthetics of 1920’s New Orleans, but even THAT has something to do with his character, however flawed it may be. If before season 2, you asked somebody what Vox might have been in the past people would have said he would have been a 80’s or 90’s tech bro.

VOX’S ORIGIN, REVISED

look, in order to prevent the people who always chime in saying “wElL, hOw wOuLd YOU dO it??????” To valid criticisms, I’ve appeased them.

oh, and also, this is subjective. I’m just spitballing. If you don’t like it, remember: it’s just my silly opinion.

Vaughn Waller is basically Vox’s human form if it was revised. He’s a smug, narcissistic, tech bro from the 2000’s, founded VaughnTech and made some tablets and computers that basically made the US populace more addicted to screens. He sometimes would put subliminal messages in the code, ordering them to buy more and “trust us with your electronics”. One fateful day as he was berating an employee he punched a wall for emphasis. The pressure made a Vaughn computer on a bookshelf wobble. He kept berating the employee, PUNCHING and slapping the wall—again for emphasis. And after he was done, the computer fell—and kablooey!

Vaughn was pronounced dead!

Hope you liked it! Once again I want to tell you this is all my silly little opinion. You have the right to disagree on whatever you want!

(P.S. I’m dead serious that he looks like John K

“Trust ME with your girls!”