Stretched Duck

Here’s a question for people far more knowledgeable than I am about animation.

You read, even on this blog, about certain animators who had smears or stretch in-betweens in their work. Were those left to in-betweeners, or did the animator himself draw them? Were they indicated in the character layouts?

Here’s an example credited to Phil De Lara in Daffy Duck Hunt (1949). Daffy is holding out and emptying bullet shells he is taking from a box.



Director Bob McKimson cuts to a wider shot with Daffy doing a Lew Lehr impression: “Duck hunters is the cwaziest peoples!”



John Carey, Manny Gould and Chuck McKimson are also credited with animation, while Pete Burness is left off the screen credits.