Monday 25 October 2021

Bewitched Bunny Backgrounds

Here’s Phil DeGuard’s work in Bewitched Bunny, the first of the Witch Hazel cartoons released by Warner Bros. Even though there are characters in front of some of them, they’re worth studying to see what DeGuard put on the walls.



Maurice Noble draughted the layouts. The cartoon was released in 1954.
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8 comments:

  1. Jonathan Wilson25 October 2021 at 08:05

    I love how everything is painted on; it really feels in a way like something Hazel would do to make the place more lived in. Really completes the storybook feel of tge short too.

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  2. Bart25 October 2021 at 08:26

    I think you mean BEWITCHED BUNNY - BROOMSTICK BUNNY is the Halloween themed short.

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    1. Yowp25 October 2021 at 08:50

      I have no idea why I keep mixing up the titles. This is the second time I've done it here and someone caught it.
      The release year and artists are all correct though.

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    2. Hans Christian Brando25 October 2021 at 18:14

      You needn't apologize, Yowp. The backgrounds for BROOMSTICK BUNNY are equally delightful.

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  3. top_cat_james25 October 2021 at 14:40

    Always thought Jones and DeGuard here were poking fun at UPA-style flat graphics, myself.

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    1. Hans Christian Brando25 October 2021 at 18:15

      Or trying to compete with them.

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    2. Paul Penna26 October 2021 at 10:39

      It was a modern art style that traced its origins back into the 1930s and by this time was ubiquitous many areas of graphic design - advertising, book and magazine illustration as well as fine arts. UPA worked in that style but didn't invent it, and nobody had to be imitating or competing with or for that matter even aware of them if they were also working in it.

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  4. M. Mitchell Marmel25 October 2021 at 21:08

    Hahnsel? HAHN-SEL? Hahnsel?

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