Wags To Riches-Bobe Cannon

Bob Cannon, along with Pat Matthews and Michael Lah, is one of my all-time favorite animators. He's an excellent draftsman and I love his use of smeared inbetweens (is that what they're called?). I've been practicing drawing from his scenes in Tex Avery's "Wags To Riches" and thought I'd share some screenshots along with a clip of the actual scene.

Bobe Cannon-Wags To Riches

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Texas Tom Layouts

Here's some layouts from "Texas Tom". I would love to see a book similar to Patrick Brion's "Tex Avery:Les Dessins", that was just loaded with Tom and Jerry layouts and model sheets.

Tex Avery - "The Cuckoo Clock"

Here's two model sheets from Tex's "The Cuckoo Clock" along with the cartoon itself and some screen shots. The part where the cuckoo bird shoots himself in the head with his finger cracks me up every time. This is just a great cartoon. I've always loved this cat character he used for a handful of cartoons, great design.

Great background

Cuckoo Clock

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Chuck Jones- The Three Bears

Here's some model sheets of Chuck Jones' Three Bears.

Billy Boy Boy Boy Boy Boy

Here's some animator's sketches from Tex Avery's "Billy Boy". I have nothing to add other than to say these are awesome drawings.

Happy Birthday Tex

Tex would've been 99 today. Here's a model sheet of Tex himself and a clip from Rock-a-bye Bear, one of the funniest cartoons I've ever seen.

Rock-a-bye Bear

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Wartime Model Sheets

Here's a few cool model sheets from some Warner Bros cartoons. Thanks once again to the Masked Stinker for sending me the Hook and Snafu models.

Private SNAFU

My favorite Hook cartoon is easily Clampett's "Tokyo Woes". Just check out these pics of Manny Gould's animation. Incredible!

"Confusions of a Nutsy Spy".

"The Ducktators"
I uploaded this short, but Dailymotion automatically flagged it as offensive when the upload completed. I didn't know servers could be so easily offended. Gee, me and the guys I work with say all kinds of nasty things in front of the servers at work and they never complain. Oh well, sorry folks.

Heckle and Jeckle - "Rival Romeos"

It's been a while since I've posted a Heckle and Jeckle short so enjoy "Rival Romeos". Check out when Jim Tyer takes over as Jeckle's about to land a kiss on the bull. Great stuff.

Heckle and Jeckle-Rival Romeos

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"The Old Grey Hare"

Here's a cool model sheet from Bob Clampett's "The Old Grey Hare". I love the drawings of old man Fudd.