Paul Rudish's Mickey Mouse

I wouldn't be surprised if it was gyro.

Edited by megaeliz on Feb 9th 2019 at 8:26:00 AM

The start of Season 5 premires tomorrow!

Yay!

Here you go!

Edited by megaeliz on Oct 6th 2018 at 12:35:57 PM

I love how this feels like a sequel to the first released episode.

This series now been going on for 5 years, and I still love every minute of it. As said before, it really brings out a side of Mickey usually not seen.

Has it been 5 years already? Wow. I only found out about it last year, though.

Yay!

Edited by megaeliz on Oct 20th 2018 at 12:32:44 PM

Foe Yay so thick you could cut it with a knife. This really reminds me of Perry and Doofenshmirtz.

Hey, it's tough being the archenemy of the biggest animation star of all time. It's just lucky the Phantom Blot didn't show up.

My favorite random thing: all the furniture in Pete's house are missing a leg.

The funny thing is Pete was also around longer than Mickey. He was actually Oswald's nemesis back when he was a bear and not a cat. It's interesting seeing Mortimer stealing Pete's spot as his rival.

You would think Mickey wouldn't fall for the likes of Mortimer's ancient bullying tactics anymore.

And yes, adding the Blot here would have been VERY interesting.

This is an older one, but is it just me, or is the buildings st the beginning here modeled after Main Street USA?

Considering the amount of Continuity Porn these shorts can have, probably.

x7 I love the Loony Toons-esque way they took advantage of Cartoon Physics to have the giant Pete hide behind that light pole.

It just occurred to me how much Walt himself would probably hate what they are doing to his characters.

Walt Disney was never satisfied with sticking with one animation technique and was always pushing the technology forward up until a point right before his death when he was convinced it was getting too expensive to make. So yeah even if he was explained the way Toonboom works, he would think this type of animation is a push backwards in 2D animation and would call it cheap looking.

And he probably wouldn't like the style of it either. It has none of the lush colors and backgrounds he loved, instead going for a much more stylized look, somewhere between the digital equivalent of impressionistic Watercolors, and the xeroxed pencil sketches over painted backgrounds, al la 101 Dalmatians look, depending on the art direction of the individual short, and thicker lines, which he didn't like either.

Edited by megaeliz on Oct 23rd 2018 at 3:07:01 PM

The art also looks mildly grotesque at times, which I'm guessing Walt would not have liked much either.

But I love it. As do people in this thread.

I never said I didn't. Its not a disqualifier, but it IS there.

Not actually new shorts, but it’s pretty cool to see the animatic and the final version side by side.

That. That last shot. Tell me that is not grotesque looking art.

yeah, it’s actually interesting how Disney has started to embrace more Warner Brothers-esque zaniness in recent years with Mickey.

Indeed, it also reminds me a bit of the art style of cartoons like Ren and Stimpy. Characters look a little wilder, a little rougher. It wouldn't surprise me if Walt wouldn't have liked that style much for his own cartoons. It is a very modern and different idea of what a cartoon can, and should, look like.

One thing that I actually find really interesting about the art in these, is how the art style actually changes slightly to suit the mood and setting of the short.

Does anyone else notice that?

Edited by megaeliz on Oct 30th 2018 at 9:53:34 AM