Commentary 02 Jan 2006 07:55 am
Sited Christmas
I took some delight in looking at animation sites and how they treated the Christmas and New Year holidays graphically.
(The image to the left is a setup from an adaptation we’re doing of Rosemary Wells’ book, “Read To Your Bunny”.)
I recommend you take a quick look at the other sites and their holiday decorations:
My favorite postings came on Tom Sito’s G7 Blog. Two photos worth looking into, but scroll down to Dec. 31 and Dec. 26.
Cartoon Brew posted the same image that Amid Amidi had unveiled on his Cartoon Modern site, an illustration Tom Oreb did for a card to his mother and sister. A beautiful image.
Michael Barrier did both a Christmas and a New Year posting. Christmas was represented by the cover of a 1974 Christmas card from Walt Dsney Productions. A beautiful cover from a Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies comic book ushered in the New Year for 1944 and 2006.
Animation Magazine has a still compiling a number of animated characters from the Grinch and Bart to Adam Sandler and Charlie Brown, all under the banner: Happy Holidays.
Animated News is decorated with wrapped gifts and bows.
Golden Age Cartoons greeted us with this New Year’s greeting: Happy New Year to all of my friends at GAC….And only four more weeks to go, until ‘The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection’ is released” and a picture of a tuxedoed Popeye drinking punch.
Harry McCracken on his site has a charming Scrappy drawing wis hing us “Scrappy Holidays!†It’s a bit odd that Betty Boop has also made it into the picture.
Koji Yamamura’s homepage has a beautiful little christmas drawing he made. This is one of my favorite sites. It exhibits a large number of little flash animation pieces as well as plenty of drawings by and information about Mr. Yamamura’s excellent and original work. I’m sorry that The Old Crocodile (still right) didn’t make it to the Oscar short list this year.
