#Gerald mcboingboing

[limestoner]

Watching this for the ♾️th time. It’s probably the earliest thing I can clearly remember watching on TV.

I love when the line is blurred between sound and music. Sound effects done in music like Disney’s Fantasia and Peter & the Wolf.

I like it just as much, if not more, when sound effects are used to make music, like in the background music here. This whole movie has so much to unpack.

Or better yet!

Sound waves don’t intend to be one thing or another. We can make them be music if we craft them in the correct way.

Same thing with speech. You’re just making noises and crafting them to sound like something. Just make a symphony of noises at the right frequencies to make words and play it for him. Then he can gradually put together a blend of sounds or just summon up the right frequencies to create speech.

I was today years old when I learned that Dr. Seuss wrote it.

That bit when Gerald suddenly goes BOOM and traumatizes his dad reminds me of all the things I would recite when I was a kid. Things from all of the cartoons I watched to my well loved encyclopedia.

One favorite was the Mercalli Earthquake scale. I remember coming up from the basement like

🧒🏼

“I: Not felt by people, but recorded by instruments. Animals may be uneasy. Doors may swing slowly. II: May be felt by a few people indoors, particularly those on upper floors. III: Felt indoors by some as a rapid…”

And hearing my parents just sounding like Tina Belcher going “Uhhhhhhhh…”

It feels good to make certain frequencies.

I wonder if that is why some kids scream when it seems like there is no reason.

#hemp #yellow fruit stripes #megalodon #selfish giant #brave little toaster #ghostbusters #Gerald mcboingboing #bobs burgers #mercalli earthquake scale #Youtube

[marywoodartdept]

United Productions of America (UPA)

What do Disney, animation, a strike, Gerald McBoingBoing, and Tooty Toot Toot have in common? Read this week's post by animation blogger Sawyer to find the answer in "United Productions of America (UPA)" #MarywoodArt #Animation

Although foundational to the medium, the inherent unrealism of animation can often become overlooked, even by the animators themselves. In other words: a storyboard artist, for example, may default to framing a scene using the same cinematographic techniques as a live-action cinematographer, in turn neglecting to utilize the benefits brought on by animation’s illusion of movement as compared to…

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#Aesthetic #Animation #Art #disney #Disney Strike #Gerald McBoingBoing #inspiration #Marywood Art #Marywood Art Department #Marywood University #Marywood University Art Department #modernism #Photography #Rooty Toot Toot #United Productions of America (UPA) #unrealism #UPA #Where Creativity Works

[surskip]

thanks nelvana for apparently making almost every single show i watched growing up

#mine #jacob tutu and maggie and the ferocious beast and care bears.... #they didnt get kid vs kat or the 2005 gerald mcboingboing revival though. i guess. #i live in canada so i have a lot of really animation lodged in my head #oh! they didnt get reboot #miss spider's sunny patch friends too....................

[disformer]

i dunno what you're vibing with in terms of your art style right now but i am madly in love with it. feels very informed by retro atompunk-age cartoons. so much of your stuff that i've seen is very Shape in a way that feels grounded in 3D so seeing you do Shape in a more flat style is a delight.

❤️❤️❤️THANK YOU SM!!! It’s been a lot of fun to play around with and I feel like I’m stretching an art muscle I very rarely use when I draw more realistically, so Im having a grand time doodling for hours and hours

And yeah it’s HUGELY inspired by retro cartoons, namely UPA’s Rooty Toot Toot/Gerald McBoingBoing from the 50s, and obviously PPG/Dexters Lab/MLATR/Samurai Jack are all pinned to my ref boards rn

#ask #and transformers was already a design challenge i have a lot of fun w #so it’s been a great time

[dwn024]

i recently remembered a cartoon by the name of gerald mcboing boing (theres two versions actually), about a little boy who can only speak in sound effects. all ill say is: hibiki.

GERALD MCBOINGBOING!!!!!!!! i know they did a more recent remake but the original UPA shorts are some of my favorite UPA shorts evr they are so cute and charming and you are 100000000% correct it literally is hibiki!!!!

#oc #cmy2k

[altercation-bureau]

“Gerald McBoingBoing On Planet Moo” really drives home the weird-and-proud aesthetics of a good UPA cartoon, I can just imagine the beatniks watching this going “wow man like far out”

#aesthetic inspo #backgrounds inspo

[lilydotparis]

#animation #UPA animation #50s #1950s #1960s #60s #Midcentury modern #Disney #film #film history #walt disney #disney animators’ strike #40s #1940s #mr magoo #Gerald mcboingboing

[nicknellie]

Hang on, since we’re on the subject of kids TV does anyone remember Gerald McBoingBoing or did I actually make that up @ace-bookworm @nickalicious @iamslikesthings

Also Elliot Kid??

#not jatp #please bc no one remembers it but I SWEAR

[enlightenedrobot]

Hanna Barbanime Hot Take

Works listed:

Yogi Bear (representing all the Hanna Barbera animals)

Gerald McBoingBoing

Rooty Toot Toot

The work of Mary Blair

Archer

Wander over yonder

Clone High

2 Stupid Dogs

Total Dram

Sheep in the Big City

Crash Nebula (pilot)

My Life as a Teenage Robot

Mystery Skulls

Ok KO

Powerpuff Girls (original)

Powepuff Girls (reboot... only listed because of resemblance to original)

Dexter’s Laboratory

Fairly Odd Parents

Johnny Bravo

Danny Phantom

The Buzz on Maggie

Johnny Test

Scott Pilgrim

Hello Kitty

Warioware

Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt

Invader Zim

Seconds

Steven Universe

Gorillaz Phase 1

Samurai Jack

Kaiba

Astro Boy

Notes:

This graph is not perfect... I feel like a third dimension with angular vs roundness might be in order.

I like the term Hanna Barbanime because it’s a little broader than “Thick Line Animation”... Samurai Jack and Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends (which I forgot to add) have the same style, I think, but lack the outlines the term “Thick Lined Animation” suggests. Ian Jones Quartey, of OK KO fame, was the guy who coined the term.

The titles at the end of each axis are a little misnomery.

 Genndy Tartakovsky I think represents a version of this style where it’s taken to an artistic extreme, whereas the butch hartman side of things tend to focus on other things other than artstyle... either brand recognizability, slapstick, or dialogue based humour.

Further, Anime represents a specific brand of Anime... Japanese Superflat and the stuff influenced heavily by the works of Osamu Tezuka. Things like, say, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure don’t make the list. 

Similarly, the Hanna Barbera side also includes the work of UPA and the stuff influenced by J Ward. These three styles have their differences, of course, but still ultimately come from the same basic design principals.

Only Gorillaz Phase 1 makes the list. Further phases go against the style a bit too much to be classified here.

Archer is an interesting case... definitely has the thick lines, and I can’t help but see some Hanna Barbera influence in it’s design... but it’s definitely more Birdman than Yogi Bear

There’s definitely a diagonal line being formed here. Theres definately not as much Anime/ Butch Hartman works as there are other works in other quadrants.

OK KO and Steven Universe are both called “Calarts style”... but... it’s not really there. I think both owe way more to older Cartoon Cartoons than they do to, say... Gravity Falls or Adventure TIme (which don’t make the list)

#Yogi Bear #Hello Kitty #Steven Universe #Danny Phantom #Warioware #Samurai Jack #Astro Boy #Kaiba #Gorillaz #Thick Lined Animation #Cartoons #Artstyle #Hot take #Calarts #Fairly Oddparents #Butch Hartman #genndy tartakovsky #mystery skulls #Powerpuff Girls #Hanna Barbanime #OK KO #ian jones quartey

[misc-headcanons]

if u squeeze buggys balls just slightly they honk

IT IS TRUE

I once said that his nose honks a little which makes him fucking hilarious when he's giving oral, but this is even better

Sex with Buggy leads to a lot of cartoonish sound effects in the bedroom, it's like having sex with Gerald McBoingboing

#ns.fw #buggy #buggy the clown #thirst #and he absolutely refers to them as his Buggy Balls in bed

[ducktracy]

i feel like i wasn’t exactly MEANT to remember gerald mcboingboing but now... now i do

YES... i love him he’s so cute. i love the designs and shapes they used, i’m a sucker for UPA style

[torracat]

gerald mcboingboing

#remember

[saeranlover]

Do y'all just... Totally randomly... Get songs from your childhood stuck in your head...? Like... I can't even remember what the 'grumpy old troll who lives under a bridge' is from... Or whatever show just has some song about getting on a bus because they need to play a song... Plus I can't even remember who 'Gerald McBoingBoing' is but that's a thing in my head too...

[tigressjasper]

going to start calling all tumblr users gerald mcboingboing no exceptions everyone

[solarte]

Reference for "Pombo"

#pombo #hide

[everything-seuss]

Available for stream and download from kiddierecords

#Gerald McBoingBoing #gerald mcboing boing #dr seuss #audio