Monday, 27 January 2020

Little Red Riding Claws

Red Riding Hood is the evil one—as the wolf tells it in court, anyways—in The Trial of Mr. Wolf, a 1941 cartoon from the Friz Freleng unit written by Mike Maltese.

Red has a wonderful evil look. Besides a bit of dry-brush, I love her claw-like fingers.



Dick Bickenbach is the only animator who gets credit but Gil Turner animated the wolf’s childish ballet (Devon Baxter ID). Herman Cohen and Manny Perez were also in the unit at the time. Freleng directed some terrific cartoons when Yosemite Sam was invented later in the ‘40s but this one is just as funny.
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1 comment:

  1. J Lee27 January 2020 at 09:14

    A year later and they wouldn't have put as much detail into Red or the wolf's design, as they continued to speed things up and smooth things out so that only the details that needed to be animated were part of the drawing (MGM's higher budgets allowed them to keep their characters more detailed pretty much all the way to the end of the 40s).

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