The artists in the early Hanna-Barbera cartoons all had loads of animation experience and were quite capable of giving their characters interesting and good expressions.
Here’s a neat one of Huck, promoting an “amusin’ cartoon” starring Pixie and Dixie.
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This comes from one of the little cartoons before the main cartoon. In some of them, Huck's lips stuck way out when he said the “ooo” in “cartoon.” He does it in this bumper but not as exaggerated as elsewhere.
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Here’s Bill Hanna’s budgetary fantasy. There’s no separate animating, inking and painting. It’s all done at once! Just use a paint brush and it wipes on all the necessary colours and ink lines.
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Pixie and Dixie rush off the paper to see their own cartoon.
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By the way, Don Messick wasn’t called in to record in this session. Daws Butler plays Pixie and Dixie.
Here’s a neat one of Huck, promoting an “amusin’ cartoon” starring Pixie and Dixie.
This comes from one of the little cartoons before the main cartoon. In some of them, Huck's lips stuck way out when he said the “ooo” in “cartoon.” He does it in this bumper but not as exaggerated as elsewhere.
Here’s Bill Hanna’s budgetary fantasy. There’s no separate animating, inking and painting. It’s all done at once! Just use a paint brush and it wipes on all the necessary colours and ink lines.
Pixie and Dixie rush off the paper to see their own cartoon.
By the way, Don Messick wasn’t called in to record in this session. Daws Butler plays Pixie and Dixie.