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Hiển thị các bài đăng có nhãn Maurice Noble. Hiển thị tất cả bài đăng
Hiển thị các bài đăng có nhãn Maurice Noble. Hiển thị tất cả bài đăng

Thứ Sáu, 5 tháng 6, 2015

To Hare Is Human Backgrounds

Phil De Guard painted from Maurice Noble’s layouts in “To Hare Is Human,” a 1956 Warners cartoon from the Chuck Jones unit. I can’t get a clear shot of Bugs Bunny’s bed with the carrot-shaped posts but here are some other backgrounds.



Critics claim Jones starting making Bugs far too self-satisfied and flouncy. You might detect some of that in this cartoon.

Thứ Ba, 1 tháng 7, 2014

A De Gardo Painting

How’d you like a genuine De Gardo in your home, signed by the artist? This guy has.



This is one of the background drawings in “Kiss Me Cat,” released by Warner Bros. in 1953. The background artist is Phil De Guard, who decided to use a pen name (a brush name?) as an inside joke. I can’t read the first name on the painting.

Here are a few other backgrounds.



Layouts are by Maurice Noble.

Thứ Ba, 8 tháng 10, 2013

Zipping Along

Blue mesas and cinnamon coloured cliffs. Phil De Guard and Maurice Noble at work in the Roadrunner cartoon “Zipping Along” (released 1953).

Thứ Sáu, 30 tháng 8, 2013

Maurice Noble's Africa

Chuck Jones never lost the penchant he had when he began as a director in the late ‘30s and early ‘40s for cutish characters and stylised designs. For a number of years through the mid and late ‘40s, Jones seems to have concentrated more on humour and gags, but then his cartoons got all designy again.

“Boyhood Daze” (released in 1957) features little boy Ralph Phillips (the cute element) and the work of Maurice Noble (the design element). Since Phillips is living in a fantasy world, the abstractness works pretty well. Here are some of Noble’s background designs in the jungle sequence, painted by Phil De Guard.



The stylised natives (writer Mike Maltese has dubbed the tribe the “Daquiris”) run away with only their feet moving. The masked bodies are lumped together in a drawing on one cel.



And Jones’ roaring tiger has stylised movement, with the open mouth simply popping from pose to pose.



Ken Harris, Dick Thompson and Abe Levitow receive animation credits here. Mel Blanc doesn’t get a voice credit, but you can hear him supply native grunts. Other voices are provided by Dick Beals, Daws Butler and Marian Richman.
 

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