🎀🎩 As much as I have drawn Disney’s version of Alice, last year, I felt it was high time I did drawings of Hanna-Barbera’s interpretation of the character. This version of Alice appeared in a 1966 one-hour animated TV special. Similarly to what I did last night, I based these Alice drawings on drawings from original model sheets and layout drawings I found online. Surprisingly, her overall design appears to be reminiscent of Princess Aurora from Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty”, on account of the fact that Iwao Takamoto was a clean-up artist for Marc Davis’s animation of the princess. After working on “Sleeping Beauty”, Takamoto left Disney and moved over to Hanna-Barbera Productions where he worked as a layout artist and the studio’s main character designer. 🎀
The Exposure Sheet may be a somewhat newish blog discussing things Hanna-Barberian, but I thought this rather worthwhile item featuring one of voice master Daws Butler's last interviews with the media explaining his craft worth sharing.
Both known for voicing numerous original Hannah-Barbera characters.
Don Messick- Most known for playing Droopy Dog, Scooby and Scrappy Doo, Papa Smurf, and Boo-Boo Bear.
Daws Butler- Notable roles include Elroy Jetson, Yogi Bear, and the original voice of Snap, Crackle, and Pop (Rice Krispies). He also trained other voice actors, such as Nancy Cartwright and Bill Farmer.
For a brief period in 1987, Showbiz Pizza actually got the rights to use the characters of Yogi Bear and Boo Boo in their animatronic stage show act. They actually got Daws Butler and Don Messick to do the voices. They all sing variations of 80s songs together. This is the pre-recorded audio track set to some pictures of them.
Fractured Fairy Tales are funny anyway, but let me tell you about an episode titled “The Tale of a King.” It’s all about a kingdom where nothing happens, until a storyteller stops by in search of stories and the king just decides to make one up. He dresses up as a fairy godmother and finds a common guy to be the hero, and he pays the local troll to abduct his daughter and take a dive against the hero. It’s such a hilarious episode and so fresh and different from the other slightly warped classics.
DSCF1194 by Skatole Grudnick
Via Flickr:
Capt'n Crunch, scanned from blue pencil drawing on paper, for the Quaker Oats Company by Jay Ward Productions. This sketch would be copied to a cell, digital ink, the cell would normally be hand painted. The commercials began to air in 1963, Daws Butler was the original voice. Capt'n Crunch was also the name of a pioneering phone hacker, now retired, who inspired Jobs and Wozniak of Apple fame.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap'n_Crunch