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 drawn cartoons -

so let me know if you're ready to follow a new stream of posts!!!

more BEAR NECESSITIES

The Jungle Book (Disney, 1967)

How about one more from JUNGLE BOOK?

The enchanting storytelling gets a lot of help from these incredible backgrounds, as well as the voice talent and animators!

Baloo teaches Mowgli about "the Bear Necessities" -



Here's the fabulous BG! I got to the very end of its reconstruction and had one tiny section I had to digitally hand paint, as it was never revealed in the scene. This always stretches my abilities (I'm not really an artist) but on completion I think I matched it pretty darn well! There's a slight pan to the right so you never saw this complete BG on the screen - until now!

BARE NECESSITIES

The Jungle Book (Disney, 1967)

A phone call today sent me to THE JUNGLE BOOK DVD to answer a question… and I fell in love with this movie all over again, including the BG art. More to come!

Today, we see this wonderful segment - Baloo crosses the screen, er, jungle, from here:



to here:



Now, for the first time, you can see the entire pan BG revealed. Gorgeous textures!

QUICK DRAW McGRAW (Hanna-Barbera)

Quick Draw McGraw



I fell in love with animation because of Walt Disney… but every kid loved the Hanna-Barbera characters too!



The likes of Yogi, Huckleberry Hound and Quick Draw McGraw kept us very entertained after school.

Today, I spent most of my day off recreating this gigantic pan background from the opening of the Quick Draw show. Around 6 hours later… here's the result.

It's pretty lavish for H-B… hope you like it!

The first frame:



QD drove that stagecoach across an enormous pan BG:




here's the B/G without our hero…



And so you can see the detail, as is my usual routine, I've separated it into left, center and right sections so you can have a better look.

left



center



and right!



EL KABONG!!!!

Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee

Alice In Wonderland (Disney, 1951)

Alice decides to scamper through a hollow log…

(Alive vaporized!)

The boys mull it over

(reconstructed pan BG, with the daffy duo overlaid)

(and the reconstructed pan BG without them)

Then, starting here...

they end up here -

and in the process, they prance and bounce, right to left, on this terrific pan BG.

As you've never seen it - digitally re-assembled in its entirety!

Click on the images to see them full size.)

A very merry un-birthday, everyone!

BUGS BUNNY at the piano

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
(Warner Bros., 1979)



As an interstitial begins, we visit Bugs' palatial residence and move through this hallway to his music room…



Bugs is, of course, very accomplished in the arts: conductor, ballet dancer, drag queen (!)… and as it turns out, a virtuoso pianist, with a spectacular gold concert grand!



Here then, is the digitally re-composited BG with the Maestro vaporized. :)



Fresh, modern, and unapologetically cartooney. YAAASSSSSSSSSSSSS!