#Preston Blair

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Wild and Woolfy (1945) dir. Tex Avery

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Happy Birthday Red! Tex Avery’s “Red Hot Riding Hood” was released 81 years ago, May 8th, 1943. Featuring Red (beautifully animated by Preston Blair) who has to contest with one of her audience members, a wolf who’s a little too taken with her feminine charms.

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The Shooting of Dan McGoo animation cels (1945)

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Oh Wolfie, Ain’t You The One! (1990s)

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Tex Avery’s key poses for the animation sequence of Red Hot Riding Hood’s “Strut” (1943) Source

Correction. Art is by Preston Blair.

Red Hot Riding Hood by Preston Blair

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Sketches of various cartoon sillies, pretty happy with how they turned out!

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My practice of a few cel shaded inspired Jerry designs from 2022. These were definitely a lot of fun to do and practice visual effects/gags. I'm proud to say that I can definitely see improvement in my work everyday. Hopefully, I'll get the chance to practice more on this and other styles soon. Plus, I wanted to go full on Tex Avery with this one xD

I did this during my prompt practice period when I gave myself a certain concept to practice along with another piece I've done. I literally watched the Tom And Jerry Movie on Max and actually thought "I can do better than this" despite enjoying a couple of parts of it. I've also had a few lessons from the Preston Blair "How-To" books here and there.

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Prosperity Blues (1932)

This is a short about optimism during the great depression. Krazy is working an apple stand and nobody can afford his wares. Things are bleak but Krazy meets a dancing horse who brings him and the whole town patriotic glee and hope as the vaults open and money flows out.

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Spotted the Preston Blair one at a used book store today.

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Same gag in concept, different execution

First short: Port Whines, a 1929 Krazy Kat outing done by Ben Harrison & Manny Gould with uncredited animation from guys like Art Davis & Friz Freleng. Done at Harrison-Gould/Mintz in NYC, New York

Second Short: Lighthouse Keeping, a 1932 Krazy Kat outing done by the same team with credited animation attributed to Al Eugster & Preston Blair, done at Screen Gems in LA, California

Credit: PD Toons (and Adam the Entertainment Fan 2003) for the videos.

I do not own any of this, this is for study only! 100% non profit. If you or someone else wants me to take this down, I will!

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Bunker Hill

Preston Blair

1938

[skullislandproductions]

Model drawing of Red in her stage costume that was designed for her musical number in “Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes,” 2010. It was exciting to get a chance to work with Red and the other Tex Avery characters we added to this film.

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Bunker Hill (Preston Blair, 1938)

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Hello Joe “Northwest Hounded Police” (1946)

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Preston Blair “How to Animate Film Cartoons” Page Illustration (Walter T. Foster, 1980) Source