Sketchy Thoughts: March 2014

Blogs I Dig

Tralfaz

Jack Benny, 90 Decembers Ago - The Christmas holidays in 1934 seem to have been pretty good for Jack Benny. Besides his radio show beaming out on the NBC Blue (WJZ) network, his music...
4 hours ago
Rankin/Bass-historian

Lucky book #7! -
9 hours ago
Deja View

Christmas Party - We had a wonderful Christmas Party at my house. Special guests were the voices of BAMBI: Here we have me, Donnie Dunagan (Bambi), Holly Sedillos (sin...
11 hours ago
Gurney Journey

Chasing a Glitter Path - New YouTube video covers: 1. Pathways of light reflected on water, 2. Hotspot priming 3. Contre-jour lighting. 4. The poetic traditions of glitter paths ...
20 hours ago
ILLUSTRATION ART

WHAT THE HECK WAS ANDREW WYETH THINKING WITH THIS SYCAMORE TREE? - Andrew Wyeth drew this "preliminary" study of a sycamore tree in preparation for a landscape painting. *Andrew Wyeth, 1941 (30" x 40")* Every artist has to...
1 day ago
Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation

Animator Spotlight: Rod Scribner - In today’s world of focus-tested blandness and homogenized AI sludge, watching Scribner’s boldly personal weirdness from 80 years ago is a breath of fresh ...
1 day ago
Mark Kausler's CatBlog

Felix Can Dooit - Howdy Readers and Merry Christmas! Here’s Felix from 10-23-32 to 11-5-32. Danny Dooit is introduced and becomes one of Felix’s best friends. Danny becomes ...
2 days ago
Ronald Searle Tribute

Germany - The British caricaturist Ronald Searle was on a four day visit of Germany on invitiation of SDR. Interview with Ronald Searle. (August 26th 1959) ...
1 week ago
AnimationResources.org - Serving the Online Animation Community

Illustration: Mary Blair’s Little Verses - Mary Blair has become well known in the past few years for her concept work on Disney’s classic animated features of the forties and fifties, but two of ...
2 weeks ago
BRIAN SIBLEY : the blog

"O, CLOUDS UNFOLD!" - This glorious, image-laden stained glass window commemorating William Blake – artist, engraver, printer and poet – is found in St. Mary's Church, Batter...
3 weeks ago
Scribble Junkies

Upcoming Events, Big Apple Comic Con and "SLIDE" at the SVA Theater - A quick announcement about two big events that you don't want to miss. Saturday, November 23, I'll be at the great Big Apple Comic Con. I've got my artis...
4 weeks ago
The Big Blog of Kids' Comics!

Gil Turner in Coo Coo Comics! - Like so many other artists of his era, *Gil Turner* began his artistic career as an animator, having begun his career at Walt Disney Studios in 1933 and m...
1 month ago
ScrappleFace

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1 year ago
John Canemaker's Animated Eye

REMEMBERING RUSSELL MERRITT (1941-2023) - Russell Merritt (1941-2023) was a brilliant man of parts, a knowledgeable, articulate scholar whose lasting accomplishments in film history research, writi...
1 year ago
John K Stuff

Adding Gradients Before Painting Shadows and Textures - Once I have all my shapes filled with flat color I will want to add some gradients to some of the shapes.I make my gradients subtle by using 2 colors that ...
1 year ago
One1more2time3's Weblog

Instagram - I continue here… http://www.Instagram.com/one1more2time3/
2 years ago
Inspector Cleuzo

Young Shaggy - Young Shaggy exploration poses and expressions for an early version of SCOOB. #scoobydoo #scoob #characterdesigner #hannabarbera #characteranimator
3 years ago
A. Film L.A.

Walt was honored for Three Little Pigs... And so were Pinto Colvig and Frank Churchill! - This article in the Hollywood Citizen News of Saturday 09/23/1933 pretty much speaks for itself: [image: 1] What I was not aware of was that this party at ...
3 years ago
Noir of the Week

Deep Cover (1992) - During this time of protest and change as a film noir fan I keep going back to *Deep Cover*. A raw, political, honest film about cops and concerns that s...
4 years ago
Whirled of Kelly

Back-to-School Campaign - Much of Kelly's special art was dedicated to educational purpose. Note that his copyright notice is topsy-turvy.
4 years ago
Gustaf Tenggren

Gustaf Tenggren exhibition opened at Millesgården, Stockholm - On Saturday February 22, 2020, the long-awaited comprehensive exhibition of Gustaf Tenggren's art opened at Millesgården in Stockholm. This museum is built...
4 years ago
Where Danger Lives

CHAMPION (1949) - Champion is usually described as a cautionary tale about the bitter price of ruthless ambition. Rubbish. The character of Midge Kelly is heroic, admira...
4 years ago
Penny Arcade TV: Strip Search

Welcome to PAX! Season 2, Ep. [Aus 2018]: Underdogs - Film/Edit by Octavio Abea Music in this episode: Never Looking Back by VESHZA (The Spark) Artlist
5 years ago
Supervised By Fred Avery: Tex Avery's Warner Brothers Cartoons

The Heckling Hare: "Cartoon Man Walks Out" - Release date: 7/5/41 (according to BCDB); 7/12/41 (according to Michael Barrier's Hollywood Cartoons) DVD/BR AVAILABILITY: Looney Tunes Golden Collection, ...
5 years ago
CandyCaneLand

- Genndy Tartakovsky's PRIMAL Adult Swim (2019) It is a rare privilege to serve as Art Director on Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal. The chance to produc...
5 years ago
Cin-Eater

The Eddie Duchin Story (1956) - Stephen King gave an interview once where he was foolishly challenged with a question about literary history. I don’t know why, but journalists always thin...
5 years ago
STANLEY STORIES

Book Revue - Just a couple of recent developments you folks might find of interest... I spent the past two years restoring Cecil Jensen's indescribably droll, dark and...
5 years ago
decidedly disney

DAVE R SMITH (1940-2019) - News today of the passing, at the age of 78, of another friend of Disney: Dave Smith, founder of the Walt Disney Archive and, for forty years, its champion...
5 years ago
cartoondavid

bob - what a guy!
5 years ago
The Cartoon Cave

Happy Birthday, Crystal Gayle! - About a month ago I finally fulfilled a longtime wish - I got to meet one of my favourite female vocalists, Crystal Gayle! It came about quite quickly a...
5 years ago
What About Thad?

Writing the Dell Way - This turned up on Howard Lowery’s auction site four years ago and I don’t recall ever seeing it posted elsewhere (and I swore I had), so I’m putting it her...
6 years ago
FilmStruck

Remembering Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. on his birthday, here... - Remembering Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. on his birthday, here in GUNGA DIN (‘39)
6 years ago
TenNapel's Weblog

Doug TenNapel will be Live drawing on youtube Today - This is just a reminder that I’ll be going over some basic cartoon body types today on my Youtube channel. There should be a number of Earthworm Jim bodies...
6 years ago
Sometimes I Write Poetry

Reflections of a Funeral - Hold on to the memories of old, For the Son is on the horizon. May our time spent here, On this temporal sphere, Direct us towards life's destination.
6 years ago
The Blackwing Diaries

Wednesday, March 14th, 2018: Mindy Johnson presents "Ink & Paint" in Hollywood - The cover of Mindy Johnson's Ink & Paint invites you into the world of Disney's past, but there's much more inside. It's been a long time between upd...
6 years ago
TCM’s Movie Blog

Jean Harlow, Mary Dees, and SARATOGA - I watched SARATOGA again last night for the first time in years and still found it very depressing. It is so sad to watch Harlow, clearly weak and listless...
6 years ago
TAG Blog

Los Angeles Times journalists vote 248-44 to unionize - The iconic LA Times Building. photo courtesy of nextimage3d. Journalists at the Los Angeles Times have overwhelmingly elected to form a union, voting 24...
6 years ago
Camp Weedonwantcha

Why We’re Here -
6 years ago
Drawing and Doggerybaw.

I do not recommend the flu. - Or, how I spent the first week of 2018. :|
6 years ago
Cartoons, Model Sheets, & Stuff

Hanna Barbera Title Cards - So I’ve decided to start posting on this blog again, at least semi-regularly for now. I’m going to start up again by sharing screenshots of some great titl...
7 years ago
UNCLE EDDIE'S THEORY CORNER!

THE LATEST ASTRONOMY PHOTOS: 7/19/2017 - Have you seen the latest Juno pictures of Jupiter's red spot? This one (above) was taken July 11 from less than 10,000 kilometers away. The origin of the...
7 years ago
Bill Cone

Pt. Reyes workshop this weekend, May 19-21 - I've got spots available in this weekend's workshop out at the Historic Lifeboat Station in Pt. Reyes. I do have a workshop page on this blog, but not sure...
7 years ago
David-Wasting-Paper

Maria Scrivan - Cartoonist Survey #284 - Syndicated cartoonist, illustrator, greeting card designer, and author, *Maria Scrivan* was nice enough to take the time out of her very busy schedul...
7 years ago
...Pencil Test Depot...

Cocoa Puffs pencil test by Mael Gourmelen - Cocoa Puffs pencil test from Maël GOURMELEN on Vimeo.
7 years ago
Screwball Comics

Rube Goldberg Wishes You a Merry Christmas - Over the course of his 35 years or so as a daily and Sunday newspaper humor cartoonist, Rube Goldberg celebrated many Christmases in pen and ink. Here is a...
7 years ago
flannelGRAPH | the intersection of art and faith

A Joyful Sound of Noise - Every so often you see a movie that you wish desperately to happen in reality. Sound of Noise (2010) is definitely one. At least for us weird artist types....
8 years ago
Temple of the Seven Golden Camels

Some Shameless Self Promotion - Sometimes people ask me if I'll ever write a book about storyboarding. I would never want to do that...I enjoy sharing what little I know for free, and I'v...
8 years ago
Animation Backgrounds

Are you out there? - Hi gang! I'm considering a commitment to frequent posting again. If you're interested - please comment. I love your feedback and much as I love hand draw...
8 years ago
Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy

A Less Hostile View of ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ - Having just seen Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass on opening night, with a paying audience at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, I am late in fil...
8 years ago
Animation Scoop

"Animation Scoop" Has A New URL Address - Attention! Please check your Bookmarks, clear your cache and refresh your browsers. *Animation Scoop* is now posting over here - at http://www.animationsco...
8 years ago
Insignificance: The Blog

nekojiru - I put together a haphazard translation of this comic page by nekojiru...
8 years ago
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol

Rocky & Bullwinkle in Mexico - Frank Hursh, head of background dept at Gamma If you grew up with *Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol*, it's a good bet you watched Rocky & Bullwinkle and all t...
8 years ago
CATBEYER

escaped Turkey -
9 years ago
Cartoon SNAP

Revengeance -- New Full-Length Hand-Drawn Animated Feature by Jim Lujan and Bill Plympton - *Jim Lujan*'s cartoons are mesmerizing, funny, funky and always created with his singular unique view of the world. Always an inspiration and just dang ...
9 years ago
ThadBlog

Digital Restoration - [image: Bolex1]Below are examples of the digital restoration projects I’ve been involved with (more images forthcoming). With my setup, I’m able to tackle ...
9 years ago
Michael Sporn Animation - Splog

ASIFA EAST Memorial for Michael Sporn March 2, 2015 - Michael Sporn was one of the giants of the New York animation community. From 1980 until his untimely death last year, Michael Sporn’s studio produced many...
9 years ago
potato farm girl

End of 2014 - 2014 is almost over, and here's some art and what I've been busy with the past few months. Poor neglected blogger! Harpy Gee is still moving along. I'd...
10 years ago
A New Write Place

(Not) Doing It On My Own - I often hear people my age say things like, "Everything I have, I earned," or "I've worked for everything I have," or "I am the reason why I have what I ha...
10 years ago
A Sketchy Past, The Art of Peter de Sève

Something Familiar - I wanted to do this idea for a New Yorker cover for years and never got around to it until now. As it happens, my "Hip Hops" piec...
10 years ago
Jeffords Art

- More of the series I'm working on.
10 years ago
Cowan Collection: Animation

Items Up For Auction - Here's the link to the July 1-2, 2014 Heritage Auction site that displays the items from our collection that are up for auction. July 1-2, 2014 Heritage An...
10 years ago
Misce-Looney-ous

Warner Bros. Production Art, Part Three: Cels - For part three of this series showcasing rare Warner Bros. art that has surfaced recently, let's take a look at some cels. These are highly sought after...
10 years ago
Cartoons of 1943

Sammy Salvage - A New Cartoon of 1943 - Steve Stanchfield has unearthed a new old cartoon from 1943; Sammy Salvage, from Ted Eshbaugh! Possibly the most antiquated looking American cartoon from 1...
10 years ago
Chris Sabatino Art

My Latest Cover: STEP by STEP! - PENCILS... INKS... COLOR... FINISHED!
10 years ago
Drawings from a Mexican

My Books are here! - I finally have them!!! There are some of you who I owe a copy of EVOKE to, so I'll be sending them out ASAP! Any one else who does not have a copy yet, OR...
10 years ago
The Christian Nihilist

A toe in the water - Always too many things. Always too many things. Divided in too many ways. Try too hard and too little all at once. I'm in my own way like a snake curled ...
10 years ago
Cartoons of 1939

Film Daily News of 1939 - Yowp/Tralfaz post of '39 animation news items: http://tralfaz.blogspot.com/2014/01/cartoons-of-1939-part-1.html
10 years ago
Ramapith: David Gerstein's Prehistoric Pop Culture Blog

Out of the Vaults: From Binko to Bluto - Omigosh... a Gerstein blogpost! They've been rarer than hen's teeth for quite awhile, and some of you know why—I've spent the last year stretched between...
11 years ago
Anna Koehler's Bloggilious Blog Site

Animate Me! See me in the Book Trailer!!! -
11 years ago
Cartoons of 1935

Film Daily, 1935 - Tralfaz's extensive Film Daily transcriptions from 1935: http://tralfaz.blogspot.com/2013/08/bye-bye-buddy-1935.html
11 years ago
Nick Cross' Plog

Louis Riel - Last year, I was approached to help develop a feature film based on the graphic novel, *Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography *by Chester Brown. I wrote a tr...
11 years ago
uh oh.

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11 years ago
Gabe Swarr

New Portfolio Site! - For you who are still following this blog, I have new portfolio site: (It has links to almost everything I've ever worked on) and a new daily sketch b...
11 years ago
Funny Cute

Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey, and Strip Search - Yeesh, I'm seriously terrible about updating this blog. Lately I've just had a lot to do, which means not much time for drawing personal stuff. Hopefull...
11 years ago
bill white cartoons

It's a sad, sad, sad, sad world.... - Hard to believe just a mere 3 weeks ago, Bill wrote his last blog. I am his wife, Sharon, or as most of you know me, Perfect Wifey. I wanted to be sure ...
12 years ago
Dabrosis

Animation - I have been re-visiting and working on several new animated shots. I think previously I always had this idea that you should always just work on a singl...
12 years ago
Animation Blog

Jacob Stålhammar "The Cats of Mars Meet the Toy Car" (2010) - Back to earth. Or not. The Cats of Mars Meet the Toy Car is an unusual piece of work, indebted to the verse style of *Dr Seuss*, utilising public domain m...
12 years ago
A Year (Or More) In Korea

Post The Second.5 - The next day we slept... a lot. Dick came to take us shopping along with Hannah. The first store smelled pretty strongly of fish, which makes sense, becaus...
12 years ago
Golden Gems

She-Rawk! "And so it begins..." Ep Debut - Hello Blog-Universe, I'm back! Well... sort of. Life has been crazy these past two years with many ups and downs the biggest being the passing of my swee...
12 years ago
Cowan Collection: Comic Art

cowancollectioncomic is under maintenance -
12 years ago
Pogo In Pandemonia

Prehysterical Critters - In case you don't ever make it over to *Whirled of Kelly*, I thought fans of *Pogo in Pandemonia* would enjoy Walt Kelly's prehysterical critters from the ...
12 years ago
Beware Of The Crosseyed Cyclops !

Slow to respond but not dead...yet. - Its been awhile since I've posted. This is for several reasons - the most pressing being legal. Also there's been some health worries and major computer pr...
12 years ago
BLOG LIEBERMAN

GURLFRIENDZ - *Random studio drawing of the day...*
12 years 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 be...
12 years ago
"Blank Fields"

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13 years ago
Randall Scott - Character Animator

New General Demo Reel - This is a demo reel containing various animations and graphics I have done at work.
13 years ago
matt bugeja - animation

My Blog has MOVED.... - My Bog has moved to SplineBomb.com
13 years ago
Broken Trident

Page 16 - << First < Previous Next > Last >> << First < Previous ...
13 years ago
Snooper and Blabber: Gold Key #1, 1962 > Artist uncredited - Birthday Boomerang and the one pagers at beginning and end are by Harvey Eisenberg. – John K. Read the rest of this issue here.
13 years 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...
13 years ago
Popeye Animators

Tyer Under Control - It just hit me today - I've been watching 'Wotta Knight' for years oblivious that it contained the last bits of animation Tyer did on the Popeye cartoons. ...
13 years ago
John Bryson Band

New Instrumental - Just FYI, I posted a new song which is an instrumental so I hope that you all like it!!! Also, here is the link to some music if you'd like to share it wit...
13 years 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...
13 years 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...
13 years ago
OLD 24

Doughnuts - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjDtSdgxHBkendofvid[starttext]Film by Patrick Osborne[endtext]
14 years ago
Hairy Green Eyeball II

TEEN LOVE STORIES continued - Part 2 of TEEN LOVE STORIES No. 1 gives us another UK comic story and Twiggy, who was just about the hottest thing on the celebrity scene in 1967. You can ...
14 years 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...
14 years ago
illcomics

Demo Reel -
14 years 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, ...
14 years 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...
14 years 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 ...
14 years 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:*
14 years ago
Lambey's Log

Kids and cartoons... - Hey folks! Sorry about the long break in posting. Things have been pretty busy around the Lambey household the last few months. My wife and I just had our ...
14 years 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 ...
14 years ago
THUMB NAILS

Video Games - As I was posting this, it occurred to me that I don't have a video games category on my blog. Well, I can't see a better first post for exactly that..... ...
14 years 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 ...
15 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...
15 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...
15 years ago
JMB Entertainment

American Holocaust!!! -
16 years ago
ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive

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Dictionary Evangelist

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Nnewts

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Uncle John's Crazy Town

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The Muppet Newsflash

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Dumm Comics

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Animation Brad

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Cartoon Research | Dedicated To Classic Cartoons: Past, Present & Future

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Daily Word with Meg

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Theodorahermes's Blog

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Ratfist

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She Was Write

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Shane Glines' Cartoon Retro

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Illustration

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