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WB Marketing Art, LOONEY TUNES, Bugs Bunny. Pencil, Digital color.
This is another old piece revisited to serve as more Photoshop fun. I have no clue if WB Marketing ever used this at all, and I can't clearly recall the details of the assignment. But the challenge was to depict Bugs Bunny in drag, a gag the character often pulled in those classic cartoon shorts, getting a laugh every time. For this exercise, I tried to emulate the traditional cel animation style with the flatly rendered character against a more dimensional background, lavishly painted. Rather than paint it myself, I grabbed a suitable cartoon background from online to better facilitate the collaborative effect. To further emulate some of those classic cartoons that seamlessly blended animation with real live-action elements, I grabbed the tree swing from an online photograph. As in the early Fleischer Studios gems featuring Koko the Clown, MGM's ANCHORS AWEIGH (1945), and more recently with Disney/Amblin's WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988), the combination of real and animated, tonal painting and flat characters creates a wondrously disorienting contrast which invariably pops the cartoon character forward quite effectively. And this only enhances the magic and the comedy. Anyway, that's what I was going for, and I hope you like it. Thanks for viewing!
*All material is the property of Warner Bros.
This is another old piece revisited to serve as more Photoshop fun. I have no clue if WB Marketing ever used this at all, and I can't clearly recall the details of the assignment. But the challenge was to depict Bugs Bunny in drag, a gag the character often pulled in those classic cartoon shorts, getting a laugh every time. For this exercise, I tried to emulate the traditional cel animation style with the flatly rendered character against a more dimensional background, lavishly painted. Rather than paint it myself, I grabbed a suitable cartoon background from online to better facilitate the collaborative effect. To further emulate some of those classic cartoons that seamlessly blended animation with real live-action elements, I grabbed the tree swing from an online photograph. As in the early Fleischer Studios gems featuring Koko the Clown, MGM's ANCHORS AWEIGH (1945), and more recently with Disney/Amblin's WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988), the combination of real and animated, tonal painting and flat characters creates a wondrously disorienting contrast which invariably pops the cartoon character forward quite effectively. And this only enhances the magic and the comedy. Anyway, that's what I was going for, and I hope you like it. Thanks for viewing!
*All material is the property of Warner Bros.
Image size
2250x2682px 1.99 MB
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Great job. Quite perfect, actually. ^•^