Friday, 12 December 2025

Dry Brush Wolf

Tex Avery’s first cartoon with Droopy was Dumb-Hounded (1943) and one where he pushed the boundaries of takes with the wolf (expanding even further in Northwest Hounded Police, released three years later).

Here are some random frames after the wolf (played by Frank Graham) discovers that, somehow, Droopy is already where he’s gone to hide from him.



The MGM ink and paint department should receive recognition for all the dry-brush lines as the wolf twists, turns and zooms.

No artists are credited.

1 comment:

  1. Art is when you look at some creation and think, How did they come up with that? You can't really appreciate something like this, you simply accept the action as "real" and are amused by the gag, until you do see the individual components like these frames. Brilliant. And again, it's the human handmade element that's so sadly missing in CGI animation.

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