Sketchy Thoughts: Holiday Greetings: 2010 edition

Blogs I Dig

Rankin/Bass-historian

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15 minutes ago
Noir of the Week

A Double Life (1947) - George Cukor's *A Double Life* stars Ronald Colman as a brilliant stage actor named Anthony John — "Tony" to his friends — who loses himself so completel...
1 hour ago
Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation

“Bino and Fino” is Nigeria’s Answer to Nickelodeon - Nigerian animator Adamu Waziri is the creator of a new animated series Bino and Fino, an African-produced preschool TV series that aims to show a more accc...
1 hour ago
Bill Cone

In the Flesh - 4 hours of an 8 hour pose 8 hour pose 4 hours 12 hours. I've never spent this long on a single image for my personal work that I can recall. What interes...
3 hours ago
TCM’s Movie Blog

Trunkers on Speed: Death in Small Doses - “The Pill Dragnet! Blasting the Blackest Market of all…the girl peddlers of the deadliest thrill for sale!” – Tagline for DEATH IN SMALL DOSES (1957). ...
8 hours ago
Michael Sporn Animation - Splog

Williams/Frazetta/Bakshi - Recap - - Having given images of both Dick Williams‘ work and Bakshi’s, I thought it’d be a good time to post the cel below. It reminds us of what an extremely tal...
9 hours ago
Gurney Journey

New Leaf-Nose Bat - National Geographic reports that scientists in Vietnam have discovered a new type of bat. With his beady eyes and strange nose, this guy struck me at first...
9 hours ago
The Cartoon Cave

Monica Bellucci - Yeah, I know it's a long time since New Years Eve when I last posted on this blog. Blame it on a lack of creativity on my part, as well as my general feel...
13 hours ago
Deja View

Kathryn Beaumont - Her full name is Kathryn Beaumont Levine, and her friends call her Kathy. I am very proud to be one of them. We recently got together to take a look at ...
14 hours ago
Whirled of Kelly

The Baseball Season Burgeons - Over on The Pictorial Archives blog I've let it be known that I'm on a leave of absence from blogging while I'm slogging through deadlines. But anyone tuni...
15 hours ago
Animation Blog

Erez Horovitz "Love Is Making Its Way Back Home" (Josh Ritter 2012 ) - Love Is Making Its Way Back Home is an interesting exercise in strata cut, paper animation carried out by *Erez Horovitz *for American singer-songwrite...
16 hours ago
One1more2time3's Weblog

style development - it is difficult enough to come up with your own character-design, but then on top of that this character needs to live in an environment that is stylistica...
16 hours ago
TAG Blog

A Princess Movie Rehash? - That seems to be the question: Otaku Kun says: "*Brave* goes where every Disney film has gone before..." Erik Kain responds: "Do we honestly expect Brave...
16 hours ago
Scribble Junkies

Epic Sketchbook: Cathy Johnson.. - Cathy Johnson from Urban Sketchers.. enjoy..
19 hours ago
Drawing and Doggerybaw.

Storms - Spent some time in the basement of the office yesterday, with the tornado warnings. Saw a bit of the damage on TV today... So horrible. If you want to help...
20 hours ago
BRIAN SIBLEY : the blog

GAY-IT-YOURSELF - I bet his shirt came from *Austin Reed*!
22 hours ago
Ronald Searle Tribute

Cache of wartime cartoons unearthed - Another amazing tale from Searle's wartime days as a POW: the Daily Mailhas the scoop on a batch of early Searle cartoons discovered on the 'Antiques Roads...
1 day ago
Ramapith: David Gerstein's Prehistoric Pop Culture Blog

Notswald: A Ramapith Public Service - How did you try to impress your childhood friends? My best buddy in third grade was a cartoon fan, like me. We drooled over unaffordable cartoon collectibl...
1 day ago
Cartoons of 1935

028 The Song of the Birds - Title: The Song of the Birds Studio: Fleischer Date: 03/01/35 Credits: Direction: Dave Fleischer Animation: Seymour Kneitel Roland Crandall Musical Score: ...
1 day ago
UNCLE EDDIE'S THEORY CORNER!

NEW DISCOVERIES IN ASTRONOMY - There's (above) the good 'ol Milky Way. Not much new to say about it, you say? Just the opposite. So much has been discovered about it in the last year an...
1 day ago
Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy

Project X—movie review - So, is this merely an extreme teenage version of The Hangover, or is it another sign of the end of civilization as we know it? How you feel about Project X...
1 day ago
AnimationResources.org - Serving the Online Animation Community

Exhibit: Al Capp 3- ReCAPP- A Bio Of The Creator Of Li’l Abner - Alfred Gerald Caplin (aka Al Capp) was born September 28, 1909 in New Haven, CT. He was best known as the creator of the classic comic strip Li’l Abner. At...
1 day ago
ScrappleFace

Obama Tough, No Bluff, on Iran; Economy Lags, Romney Hardest Hit? - www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp_IgX8NlWU SCRIPT FOR TODAY’S ‘PJ NEWS BREAK WITH SCOTT OTT‘ SCOTT OTT: It’s Friday, March 3rd, 2012, and this is news. —-- Iran’s...
2 days ago
Where Danger Lives

FILM NOIR: FRENCH POSTER STYLE, PART TWO! - Back today with another batch of French posters for classic American crime and film noir movies. Again, most of these are in the *French Grande* size, 47" ...
2 days ago
Dabrosis

Frankenweenie! - Watch video If it's Tim Burton and stop motion animation you can count me in!
2 days ago
The Blackwing Diaries

Fred Moore Pinup Girls up for auction today - This typical Fred Moore group of ladies *en deshabille* is being auctioned online today by Heritage. It's lot 78744, 12x13.5"...
2 days ago
The Big Blog of Kids' Comics!

Dick Hall's Woody Woodpecker! - Let's try a couple from *Four Color* No. 364, December 1952 on for size. After the beautifully composed cover by *Dan Gormley*, both of the following inter...
2 days ago
Lambey's Log

Superhero -
3 days ago
A Sketchy Past, The Art of Peter de Sève

I'm off to the Spectrum Wars - I mean Spectrum* Awards. * After missing a few opportunities to sit on the jury for the Spectrum AwardsI will finally get my chance this ...
4 days ago
Drawings from a Mexican

Back at Disney's - This week I'm officially back at the Walt Disney Animation Studios. I couldn't be more happy to join such amazing and talented artists who are all so ha...
4 days ago
A. Film L.A.

The First Hyperion Ave. Studio - I used to wonder where precisely Walt Disney's first 2719 Hyperion Ave. studio was located, and what it looked like. Since reading about it first in the 19...
4 days ago
David-Wasting-Paper

Jana Christy- Cartoonist Survey #259 - *Jana Christy* is an illustrator who grew up in Rochester, New York. She enrolled in a 4 year-college after high school, but within a couple of months...
5 days ago
Cartoon SNAP

Getting Started in Storyboarding - This question came in from Twitter today: "How would I go about getting a first storyboarding gig?" I thought I'd put my answer on the blog so others can ...
5 days ago
John K Stuff

Mystery Toy -
6 days ago
potato farm girl

Hello! DC Nation! - Hi again! Guess what's on tv this coming Saturday morning on Cartoon Network? :D .... CARTOONS! YAY! If you like shows for human and alien children, ple...
6 days ago
decidedly disney

MICKEY MONDAYS: Manifestations of the Mouse - Today we are moving home, so here's a picture of Mr Mouse (and friends) on the move... Artwork from a card notifying the change of address of Disney's Lon...
6 days ago
STANLEY STORIES

Coming Sometime This Spring: A Look At Famous Studio's Little Lulu cartoons--and how they relate to John Stanley's work! - When next I have a sane moment, I hope to assess the 26 animated cartoons, produced from 1943 to '47, by New York-based Famous Studios. Actually, the firs...
1 week ago
ILLUSTRATION ART

THE CARTOONIST'S REVENGE - Everyone knows what it takes to have a successful career. A college education is essential. A graduate degree is even better (preferably in a field su...
1 week ago
Nick Cross' Plog

City scene from "Black Sunrise" - Here's a brand new scene from the film, hot off of the old computer! More to come soon, plus the tutorial!! Stay tuned!
1 week ago
Temple of the Seven Golden Camels

Ball State Reminder and Advice From Jerry Seinfled - I've been busy preparing for my talk at Ball State University this week so I haven't had much time to write posts. But the good news is that I've generated...
1 week ago
Cin-Eater

All About My Mother - Please pardon my use of the film title, this isn’t really a film essay, though it isn’t unconcerned with the movies either. Pam Grier and Mia Farrow. *Ja...
1 week ago
Mark Kausler's CatBlog

Introducing the The Junior Times from 1922-1923! - There isn’t much information around the ‘net about “The Junior Times”, the 8 page little tabloid Sunday supplement for children, started as a supplement to...
1 week ago
BLOG LIEBERMAN

AND THEN... - -Hat
1 week ago
Shane Glines' Cartoon Retro

Owen Fitzgerald -
1 week ago
CandyCaneLand

- Ren and Stimpy (1992-1994) Acrylic
1 week ago
Uncle John's Crazy Town

King of Jazz Restoration - Not 'The King of Jazz' by any stretch but Whiteman brought the music to the masses and made a few really good jazz records. Image from Bix Beiderbecke Reso...
2 weeks ago
uh oh.

Couple more. - More crap I did for TOONHOLE.COM...
2 weeks ago
Jeffords Art

Valentine Art - So apparently I only do artwork for holidays;) This was for my wife. I took her on a tandem bike ride on one of our first dates.
2 weeks ago
Cartoons, Model Sheets, & Stuff

Jim Tyer - Prehistoric Perils - As much as I admire the skill of Disney animators and others like Ken Harris, Ken Muse, Virgil Ross and Bob McKimson, I really get fired up over anima...
2 weeks ago
Cartoons of 1939

Gulliver Valentine's Day Cards - Cartoon Brew pointed out some Gulliver's Travels Valentine's Day cards on eBay. I thought I had posted a couple of these, but a quick search didn't turn th...
2 weeks ago
Funny Cute

Post that has nothing to do with Valentine's - The next few posts I want to do will be about my hillbilly comic characters, but since I still need to go digging to find them, here are some drawings that...
2 weeks ago
...Pencil Test Depot...

James Baxter: Spirit - 002 -
3 weeks ago
bill white cartoons

Feel the Love! - It seems that all the Bloggers out there, even those that don't post regularly, feel the need to post "Holiday Greetings" for every Holiday that comes a...
3 weeks ago
Inspector Cleuzo

Awards and Nominations - It's always exciting when a production that you worked so hard on is recognized and gets an award or nomination, specially a major one like the Oscar and t...
3 weeks ago
Keith Lango Animation

Going dark... - Anyone who follows this site has probably noticed a distinct falloff in posts over the last year or more. Part of that has been intentional. I've just b...
3 weeks ago
Popeye Animators

Yet More Examples - Continuing with the subject matter posted here and here - Below are two clips from 'Plumbing is a 'Pipe' (1938). Following those are clips from 'My Artisti...
3 weeks ago
Insignificance: The Blog

In Lieu of Anything Worth Anything - Some digestive music to accompany the ingestion of this post. Some hotel I stayed in. A white foreground object. A cupid's ass. Some kin...
3 weeks ago
She Was Write

A Questionnaire For Book Lovers - *1. What's one of the funniest books you've ever read?* *White Noise* by Don DeLillo (there is much truth in jest). * * *2. What book did you read as a child...
4 weeks ago
cartoondavid

doodlebreak part4389 - sorry guyz :( swamped with work didn't want to neglect my blog. don't forget to check out dumm comics.com for my lame comics and sorryguyz.com for my sec...
1 month ago
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol

The 50th Anniversary of Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol - I'm sorry to say that posting will once again be light simply because people forget about *Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol* for about 11 months of the year. ...
2 months ago
Cartoons of 1943

Wrapping up 1943 - So goeth 1943. Columbia was low man in the quality department this year, but they were moving towards the future in the looks. And they had some interestin...
2 months ago
ThadBlog

Wolfie’s Christmas in July - In time for the holidays, a story from Dell’s New York office for Animal Comics #14 (April-May 1945), featuring Blackie the Lamb and Wolfie. Whose work doe...
2 months ago
Ratfist

Ratfist Tradeback (No Comments) - [image: Ratfist Tradeback] You’ve just enjoyed the first 51 pages of Ratfist, get the rest of the story from the graphic novel from IMAGE COMICS! Earthwo...
2 months ago
Gabe Swarr

There Once Was - Life In The Analog Age Store
3 months ago
Misce-Looney-ous

I Tawt I Taw a Record Dealer - Now here's a real rarity (via David Gerstein on Facebook). The site QuispQuake Reaction has posted a promotional Christmas record for Capitol Records fea...
3 months ago
Pogo In Pandemonia

A Dream Come True - This just in (literally): volume 1 of a series of 12 books that no Kelly fan should be without: *POGO—Through the Wild Blue Wonder, The Complete Syndicate...
3 months ago
"Blank Fields"

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3 months ago
Randall Scott - Character Animator

New General Demo Reel - This is a demo reel containing various animations and graphics I have done at work.
3 months ago
CATBEYER

life drawing -
4 months ago
TenNapel's Weblog

Art Clokey and Mass Media - Art Clokey would have been 90 years old today, he passed away two years ago. Art was one of the guys I modeled my own career after since he created my favo...
4 months ago
matt bugeja - animation

My Blog has MOVED.... - My Bog has moved to http://www.mattbugeja.net/blog/
4 months ago
Beware ,There's A Crosseyed Cyclops In My Basement!!!

Attempting to Contact Zen... - Hello all. Yerfdog here (it's been a while). I'm attempting to reach Zen to find out what's up, and will keep you all posted. We'll deal with our little ch...
5 months ago
Dictionary Evangelist

New column in the Boston Globe - Thank you for using rssforward.com! This service has been made possible by all our customers. In order to provide a sustainable, best of the breed RSS to Ema...
6 months ago
Anna Koehler's Bloggilious Blog Site

Recent Commercials - I recently filmed two commercials. One is for 1-800 Doctors and the other for Colonial Downs in Richmond, VA. It was a great time on both shoots! Just c...
6 months ago
Cowan Collection: Comic Art

Nordic Track Elliptical - Advantages of Nordic Track Elliptical Crosstrainers - Thinking about a Nordic Track elliptical trainer? Nordic Track makes some of the most popular elliptical trainers on the market right now. You can find sta...
6 months ago
Broken Trident

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7 months ago
THUMB NAILS

9997 - Couple more atrocities... hopefully soon I'll find some time to go people watching and get some better inspiration.... what you see here is the product of...
7 months ago
Going On Hiatus - Hi, everyone. I just wanted to let you know that beginning August 1st, ComiCrazys will be going on a temporary hiatus. I’m not sure for how long but I am e...
7 months ago
Cowan Collection: Animation

"Dumbo" (1941) [Series] - Giraffe Pastel - Well, I realized that I had not finished posting the art from "Dumbo." A couple of items left... This is a great little storyboard piece showing four gira...
7 months ago
Bouncing through Life with Froggy

Zoe Alika - So, it's been awhile since my last post... many things have been keeping me busy (in a good way)... ;) Zoe is my biggest time-consumer as many of you could...
8 months ago
Chris Sabatino Art

MONSTER DOODLES! - My newest book, MONSTER DOODLES, will hit bookstores 7/1/11 and is already available on Amazon.com! It's for all creative creatures of any age. You can ch...
8 months ago
Sometimes I Write Poetry

- Oh, weekend, how I love you. How I've waited, now your mine. I'll see you tomorrow, And everything will turn out fine.
9 months ago
ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive

META: Archive Feedback – Scout Raskin - Hi there, I’m production supervisor over at Frankenhole, a stop-motion show on Cartoon Network. I’m really sad to hear that the archive is shutting down. T...
10 months ago
Animation Brad

vanilla quadruped walk - So our first project for Animals and Creatures is to tackle a quadruped walk using a cat rig. Here’s my blocking of the basic walk.
10 months ago
24 Hour Toons

Make a film March 19th! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=409AQ4rg1XMendofvid[starttext]Special Announcement [endtext]
1 year ago
John Bryson Band

- I wonder if she can see it.....I wonder if she could even comprehend... Does she realize that the most beautiful voice singing the most beautiful words ...
1 year ago
Hairy Green Eyeball II

Goodbye...and hello again - For a variety of reasons I'm moving this blog, beginning a new volume of postings. You can go to the new blog, all set up, shiny and new, with a posting of...
1 year ago
Dumm Comics

Sunday, Jan 30, 2011 - Post Arithmatic - *Post Arithmatic - by Kyle A. Carrozza* [image: Post Arithmatic]
1 year ago
Heaven is Here

l.o.v.e. - I've recently been thinking of how Jesus wants to be my best friend. I guess I've always known this to be true, but it's just hitting me more than bef...
1 year ago
MEL CRAWFORD

Little Lulu Has an Art Show-1 - Little Lulu Has an Art Show-1 Illustrated by Mel Crawford By Majorie Henderson Buell Copyright 1964 Blogged here: goldengems.blogspot.com/2009/02/little-l...
1 year ago
A. Film L.A. 2

MOVED AGAIN!!!! - Please uddate your links back to the original location! My blog is still at http://afilmla.blogspot.com, of course. Due to ISP changes etc, I moved all files...
1 year ago
illcomics

Demo Reel -
1 year ago
The Eutychus Journal

Fear - Isaiah 8v12-20 is pretty interesting. The one verse that catches me is v18. Isaiah was reminding the tribe that they were signs and symbols of the Lord, ...
1 year ago
Pete's Corner

Story Time - So I thought I'd take a break from the boring background info and try telling my favorite story from my time as a taxi driver. I'm trying to tell this from...
1 year ago
3D Modeler

Welcome - Thanks for stopping by my website. You can go ahead and take a look around. I have samples of some of my character animation, 3D modeling and illustration ...
1 year ago
Animation Backgrounds

HIATUS - Hello, friends. And I mean that. In the years since I started this blog, I've made real friends around the world. The time has come for a hiatus. Possibly...
1 year ago
Hairy Green Eyeball

We've moved! - *WE'VE MOVED!* We've run out of room on this site, so we've moved to: *http://hairygreeneyeball2.blogspot.com* * You'll see our logo: *
1 year ago
Golden Gems

**Hiatus** - Well folks as you may have noticed I've been somewhat absent when it comes to posting on this blog. I love doing it and have a ton more to share but life ha...
1 year ago
GUATEMALA 2010

School Ministry - Our ministry has primarily been going into schools and doing dramas, sharing life stories and praying over many students! The children bring us so ...
1 year ago
Theodorahermes's Blog

- I have been tempted to buy my own domain name for quite some time…. I finally gave in and did it. Please find me at my new blog: http://www.shewaswrite.com...
1 year ago
The Muppet Newsflash

American Woman -
1 year ago
Daily Word with Meg

Daily Word is moving... - After much thought, I have decided to merge Daily Word with my main blog, Morning Cup with Meg. You will find a button linking to the daily word at Bible ...
1 year ago
Lori's Animated Life

Class 6, Week 6 - Piggy Bank Blocking - "Piggy Bank" is my short film. Above is in the Blocking + stage. I'm learning how to work in drag and overlap into Blocking +. Also getting a good feel ...
2 years ago
blogblog

A reflection on marital conflict - To state it with an artless but useful clarity, I want to draw an analogy between marriage and the church. Last fall, Katie and I turned up at a pre-engage...
2 years ago
SnL - Haiti Trip

- Hello This is Damar again, We are now in Port au Prince and I am sitting in a stuffy cyber cafe to post this. We spent most of yesterday on the road to Por...
2 years ago
JMB Entertainment

American Holocaust!!! -
3 years ago
Graphic Design and Illustration

Logo Concept for Global Humanitraian Solutions - Here's another logo concept that I thought turned out well. One of the ideas that I talked with the client about was that the services the company would p...
3 years ago

Sketchy Thoughts

Friday, December 24, 2010

Holiday Greetings: 2010 edition

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