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doodled this on the side at work. sometimes I think mistoffelees decorporealizes into a glittery smoke bomb

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Never-before-published model sheets for canned Amblin Cats movie 🐈‍⬛✏️👁️

Hi all. As promised, I am sharing a comprehensive .PDF of model sheets that were created for the Amblimation Cats movie that never saw the light of day. Most of these model sheets have not been published or posted anywhere on the internet as far as I'm aware. I'm going to get ahead of some questions for the good of the order:

Are these real? I certainly didn't sit and create all 117 pages myself for the sake of an elaborate hoax!

How did you get these? I work in the animation industry. A senior coworker caught wind of my cats obsession and said he had the Xeroxes and asked if I wanted him to bring them in. Internally, I flipped my shit. And then I digitized his hard copies.

How did your coworker get these? They were found in the library of the university he used to go to. (Not super unusual at an arts school in southern California.) He made photo copies back then and has been holding onto them. The thing is he knows nothing about CATS; isn't a CATS fan, never seen it, etc. I guess he just felt it was something worth holding on to!

Can you upload better quality? Unfortunately what you're seeing as good as the quality gets. These are scans of photocopies from the 90s. There is nothing to be done for the crunchiness.

What about (missing characters)? I'm showing you everything I was personally given!

Which character is (nondescript drawing of a cat)? If the image isn't labeled, your guess is as good as mine! I put all the misc./unlabeled cats in the back of the PDF. The only exceptions are ones that I felt were abundantly obviously supposed to be a specific character.

Who are the artists? Unfortunately, there's no way I can tell for sure. None of the sheets are signed. I wouldn't even go about guessing because many concept artists can perfectly emulate more "well known" illustrators whose styles were sought after. My coworker said he might be able to figure out who the draftsmen were; until then it's a mystery! If I find out, I will come back to this post and update it with that information.

Are these all the model sheets ever? No! In fact, there are model sheets that have been posted online that are not in the bundle I was given. I have no idea of the sum total of model sheets in existence.

Where's the link?! Here it is! Have fun kitties!

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random misto and munk doodles

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shifting shapes in the dark & poor darling demeter

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Some closeups on Misto's headpiece and makeup

Robert "Silk" Mason as Mistoffelees with a little Tugger cameo from Sydney James Harcourt

Cats: the Jellicle Ball aka Cats PAC NYC

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“Cettie! Look at that Tom over there!🐾”

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I think this turned out so cute!! I imagine Etcetera to be crazy over all Toms (not just tugger!) and finds all the street cats to be quite cute, while Electra is just there to encourage! She’s much too shy to approach herself 🤭 what do yall think of their dynamic? And who does Cettie see?!

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And there's NO doing anything abouUuUuuuUuuuauauouauuaT it ✨

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misto projecting teazer’s period cramps onto jerrie

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EMMA SOFIA as Skimbleshanks CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL

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Thinking about how cats the musical works so well because every cat thinks theyre the best cat. Like yeah of course this cat thinks the entire train will not go without him and that hes basically in charge. Hes a cat.

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being trans is like being a jellicle cat i will not elaborate

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misto’s makeup

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mungojerrie (played by danisa martis) in the perth/mandurah productions, 2019

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Hey, I just saw your awesome account here - I'm so glad you posted that late 90s tour clip. I wonder if you would know the answer to this: I was just listening to someone today from The Wrong Cat Died podcast from that era mention that at the end of the original production, there was some moment with Tugger and Bombalurina where she vibes him in some way and steals his thunder a bit. Do you know what this was in reference to ? Apologies for the random question - you seem very knowledgable though. My name is Kai and I'm a fan too ~ -Kai, 28, musician and fan

It turns out I do know the answer to that! Admittedly I'm not sure if this was a thing in the original Broadway show, but it is in US tour 5 and some other productions so I assume it came from Broadway.

It happens after the bows end-- in pretty much all productions after the bows are done, everyone acts silly for a few minutes while one of the songs plays, and then everyone leaves the stage one-by-one, with Tugger being the last one to go. Sometimes once everyone else is gone he'll encourage the audience to clap by generally acting silly or whatever on his way out, as a comedy thing.

However in some productions he and Bomba have a gimmick at the end of the bows that they do together, though what precisely they do changes depending on production + performers.

In the Dutch Tour he does this to her

Berlin is a little saucier

But in US Tour 5 (which is a descendant of the original Broadway) she does this to him

Nothing but respect for my president

So that's what I assume that bit is referring to!

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being trans is like being a jellicle cat i will not elaborate

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sometimes i wonder “what is there to live for?”

then i remember michael gruber during the backstage videos from cats

and then i’m okay and happy again

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i absolutely adore the sydney 1985 cast recording version of mungojerrie and rumpleteazer because they’ve got the twin’s lines flipped giving rumpleteazer some more spotlight and that version of the song was influenced a lot by the broadway production and it’s arguably closer than the broadway one is to the 1998 film

i just love it so much!!!!