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March 22nd 2010 00:17
Like the rest of the world, cartoon characters evolve with changing times, improving technology, better techniques and more money to spend!
KoldCast.TV wrote a fantastic article covering some of the more notable animation changes and makeovers to popular cartoon characters over the years. Below is a sample and you can read the full article here.
This image from the third-ever Mickey Mouse feature cartoon, Steamboat Willie, represents some of the earliest animation on record, and contributed to the first Disney cartoon to feature synchronized sound. Illustrator Ub Iwerks’ work laid the foundation for what would become animation’s most iconic character of all time. Note the dramatic alterations on Mickey, including the addition of pupils, lighter skin, and a pear-shaped body.
When The Simpson family first appeared as a short on Fox’s “Tracy Ullman Show”, no one could have predicted the family’s phenomenal TV stardom. The year was 1987, and creator Matt Groening mistakenly assumed his crude drawings would be cleaned up prior to airing. Now in its third decade, “The Simpsons” characters have undergone quite a few illustrative upgrades, to say the least.
What began as one of the Internet’s first viral video shorts in 1992, “South Park” shocked viewers when it went from the web to the tube five years later. The show’s in-your-face social commentary spares nobody of taboo ridicule, and creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker were just as fearless when they launched the show nearly 20 years ago—even if their drawings weren’t quite as skilled as their commentary.
Originally titled “The Flagstones”, this cartoon sitcom premiered in 1960 and would become the first primetime animated series to last more than two seasons. As animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera’s original drawings suggest, the show initially targeted adults.
A seven-time Academy Award winner for Best Short Subject (Cartoons), “Tom & Jerry” is known to have been subtly more highbrow and suggestive than its younger audiences realized. Built on a perennially contentious rivalry between a housecat and a clever mouse, the show’s popularity lasted decades. And indeed, Hanna and Barbera’s original 1963 artwork underwent some noticeable alterations over that period.
KoldCast.TV wrote a fantastic article covering some of the more notable animation changes and makeovers to popular cartoon characters over the years. Below is a sample and you can read the full article here.
Mickey Mouse: 1928
The Simpsons: 1989
The Simpsons: Today
South Park: 1992
What began as one of the Internet’s first viral video shorts in 1992, “South Park” shocked viewers when it went from the web to the tube five years later. The show’s in-your-face social commentary spares nobody of taboo ridicule, and creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker were just as fearless when they launched the show nearly 20 years ago—even if their drawings weren’t quite as skilled as their commentary.
South Park: Today
The Flintstones: 1960
Originally titled “The Flagstones”, this cartoon sitcom premiered in 1960 and would become the first primetime animated series to last more than two seasons. As animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera’s original drawings suggest, the show initially targeted adults.
The Flintstones: Today
Tom and Jerry: 1940
A seven-time Academy Award winner for Best Short Subject (Cartoons), “Tom & Jerry” is known to have been subtly more highbrow and suggestive than its younger audiences realized. Built on a perennially contentious rivalry between a housecat and a clever mouse, the show’s popularity lasted decades. And indeed, Hanna and Barbera’s original 1963 artwork underwent some noticeable alterations over that period.
Tom and Jerry: Today
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