Animation Artifacts &Illustration 03 Mar 2006 07:37 am
Big Little Big
- With all the brouhaha over Oswald, maybe it’s time to give the original superstar some attention. Mickey has been left behind and ignored by the Disney studio, itself, for the past how-many-years showing up in a couple of distorted cgi abominations and otherwise used for nothing more than a theme park escort.
It’s very nice that Oswald is back in the fold, but when you have a licensed character – many licesnsed chararacters that have been so abused by the current owners, it’s hard to get excited for what we’ll see of Oswald in the future. I expect John Lasseter will only be able to do so much. The bigger guys (marketeers) still run the front office.
This box of Big-Little coloring cards was given to me as a gift many years ago. It’s fun every once in a while to flip through them.
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- The ASIFA Hollywood Archive’s site has a good overview of Art Babbitt’s career with a short bio of Babbit by Tom Sito and a good filmography.
