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

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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

[popsaturdaymash]

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.

[tootern2345]

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!

[arinewman7]

Bunker Hill

Preston Blair

1938

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Bunker Hill (Preston Blair, 1938)

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We had fun dressing up Tex Avery’s Red Hot Riding Hood as Maid Marian, for “Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse,” 2012. Here, in a shot I animated, she cleverly turns the wolves against one another in this jazzy musical number.

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Preston Blair

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Hello Joe “Northwest Hounded Police” (1946)

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Robert McKimson Hands Appreciation

I’ve seen a lot of posts about how to draw hands or posts with lots of screenshots from real life or Disney films for a reference to copy but I’ve never seen one with Robert McKimson hands. 

I really like Robert McKimson hands, whether drawn by himself or by other animations in the cartoons he directed.

Robert McKimson hands strike a balance between basic cartoon hands and really complicated realistic hands that are very hard to animate. It’s the next step up from Preston Blair. As a reference, here’s the how-to for drawing cartoon hands by the great animator Preston Blair.

In contrast the McKimson hands I’ve posted have longer fingers, more wrinkles and more bends than the Blair hands. They’re more specific, but they’re not ridiculously complicated like some Disney human hands. 

Some of the hands I posted look like they were drawn by McKimson himself (or someone with similar skills) and some look like they were drawn or in-betweened by a less skilled animator. You can tell because some of the hands have more details & curves than others and the fingers bend twice (like real-life hands). In some of the hands it looks like someone simplified the fingers a bit, even so they’re still very good to copy.

Although keep in mind if you’re new to drawing, the Preston Blair hands are the best ones to start off with.