Thursday 20 August 2015

Lantz Designs, 1956

Flatter character designs were in animated cartoons everywhere by the mid-‘50s. Here are some examples from Woodpecker From Mars, a Walter Lantz cartoon released in 1956 and directed by Paul J. Smith.



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The Lantz cost-cutting is evident, too. All the characters are stationary except for the heads of the ones in a straight-forward view along the street. Lantz also reuses animation of the Walter Winchell caricature from Termites From Mars.
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3 comments:

  1. top_cat_james20 August 2015 at 14:48

    I'm genuinely disappointed you didn't include an image of the military officer with the huge schnoz.

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    1. top_cat_james26 August 2015 at 17:25

      I should have checked back sooner - Thanks!

      Funniest thing in the entire cartoon, in my opinion.

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  2. rodineisilveira20 August 2015 at 15:35

    La Verne Harding, Robert Bentley and Herman Cohen animated this Woody Woodpecker short from 1956.

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