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Ellie Sattler - Jurassik Park

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😊 Walmart vibes

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Hot Cross Bunny (1948)

Directed by Bob McKimson; animation by Manny Gould.

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the force awakens + the elements

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oh look the unown are trying to tell you something

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Not sure how I feel about Linkle’s design…

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Eyes convey personality.

And they are fun to draw.

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I’ve seen a lot of posts about how to draw hands or posts with lots of screenshots from real life or Disney films for a reference to copy but I’ve never seen one with Robert McKimson hands. 

I really like Robert McKimson hands, whether drawn by himself or by other animations in the cartoons he directed.

Robert McKimson hands strike a balance between basic cartoon hands and really complicated realistic hands that are very hard to animate. It’s the next step up from Preston Blair. As a reference, here’s the how-to for drawing cartoon hands by the great animator Preston Blair.

In contrast the McKimson hands I’ve posted have longer fingers, more wrinkles and more bends than the Blair hands. They’re more specific, but they’re not ridiculously complicated like some Disney human hands. 

Some of the hands I posted look like they were drawn by McKimson himself (or someone with similar skills) and some look like they were drawn or in-betweened by a less skilled animator. You can tell because some of the hands have more details & curves than others and the fingers bend twice (like real-life hands). In some of the hands it looks like someone simplified the fingers a bit, even so they’re still very good to copy.

Although keep in mind if you’re new to drawing, the Preston Blair hands are the best ones to start off with.

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I’ve been drawing creppy creatures and spoopy specters for Inktober. Here are a handful that I scanned.

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The Robert McKimson Look

Robert McKimson has directed the 3rd most WB shorts. Like the 4 big directors he’s responsible for some the best WB shorts ever. 

It’s pretty easy to tell a McKimson cartoon, they’re unique in the Looney Tunes canon. In his shorts, they always act through their arms making strong gestures. 

The other distinguishing feature of McKimson shorts besides the acting is the look of the characters. McKimson characters often have big mouths, small craniums, small eyes and a hard bitten, angry look. As a result, they’re not the most beautiful renditions of the Looney Tunes characters. John K put it brilliantly, “You’d swear that McKimson actually rebelled on purpose against the accepted visual symbols of appeal.”

Here’s a normal, typical Porky Pig.

And now look at McKimson’s version of Porky Pig. 

Look how hard bitten & angry he is, a real post-war veteran, he must’ve coped it in WWII. That rascally rabbit and duck taking all his fame. 

So there you go, if you see a lot of acting through the body, arms and hands and angry, small eyed, big mouth characters you’ve got a McKimson short. (Also the credits that mention ‘Robert McKimson’ as supervisor/director will help).

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reminder

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My inner child is -really- sad he's poor right now. #legoproblems (at Toys"R"Us)

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Luigi’s Mansion Pumpkin Projection

By Ceemdee

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