
He was just too innocent for the War years. He downplayed his stammer, and made him cute, snappy, wide-eyed, eager and naive. In 1937, another Warner producer/animator, Bob Clampett redesigned Porky. "Porky" was the name of a boyhood friend.

The creation of Porky Pig started with Friz Freleng when he left the Disney Studio and went to Warner Bros. Each gave future animators a unique path to follow. Between 1908 and World War I, animation was defined as a cinema genre by Emil Cohl and Winsor McCay. As with film, sound brought a new direction to animation.īefore 1908, animated films were concerned with camera tricks and special effects which made objects appear to move with a life of their own.

Their humor was aimed at adults, rather than children. This intense production schedule led to the simple black-and-white line gag cartoons. Usually, animators had to produce a film a week. Although all three were gone by 1920, they provided the training ground for the future. The first animation studios, Raoul Barre, Hearst International, and J. R. His animation used exact perspective and his characters always moved true to their form. He believed that animation should be an art form. Windsor McCay represented himself as a modern technician, rather than a nineteenth century stage magician. Their lines were made of clay so that they could be reshaped between shots. His animation was a cast of stick figures, drawn in white against a black background. Early animators used the widely published motion-study photographs of Muybridge and Marey to create movement.Įmil Cohl embodied the intellect, imagination, patience and love of drawing that would define the animator's personality.

Also popular in this era were "flip-books." The pioneers of animation were influenced by the "flip-books" more than the mechanical devices. The images were hand painted on long strips of celluloid. In 1892 using mirrors and lenses, Emile Reynaud projected his "pantomimes lumineuses" onto a screen. Early in the 1800s, "persistence of vision" was discovered and devices using this principal developed quickly. Sequential drawings were made by early caveman and numbered drawings by later civilizations. Pulled from Quicktoons Cartoon Classics - Wayzata Technology (1211) (1993) and Quicktoons II - What's Up Disc - Wayzata Technology (1361) (1993) A Coy Decoy - Daffy Duck - Ali Baba Bound - Porky Pig - Betty Boop in Blunderland - Betty Boop - Bimbo's Auto - Bimbo -Porky's Cafe - Porky Pig - The Henpecked Duck - Daffy Duck - Falling Hare - Bugs Bunny - The Case of the Missing Hare - Parlez Vous Woo - Popeye - Cooking with Gags - Toyland Caper - Who's Who at the Zoo - Porky Pig "Cartooning: 100 Cartoon Faces & Expressions (How to Draw & Paint) The first thing Its important to do with any e-book is analysis your subject matter.A collection of cartoons that have fallen into the public domain.
