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TheVampireMouse — It All Started with a Mouse
Published: 2011-05-14 04:40:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 5967; Favourites: 103; Downloads: 304
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This is it! It took me over five months to sketch the thumbnails, pencil, ink, and color this drawing, and it may very well be the greatest drawing that I've ever done. It was a real pleasure working on it, and I only hope that you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed drawing it.One of the great things about this drawing is that there is no focal point whatsoever. It forces your eye to scan the entire composition. I had a friend who told me that she kept discovering new things each time she went over it.
The name of the panoramic drawing is called "It All Started with a Mouse," and there's a double meaning behind it. The first is that I had wanted to do another group drawing with Mickey Mouse and his friends, but this time include Daisy Duck, who was absent from the last one, and pretty soon after that I came up with the idea to include characters from Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera. The second reason is my belief that without Mickey Mouse and Disney there might not be a Looney Tunes or a Hanna-Barbera, which is why Disney is in the center of the composition. So the Cartoon Universe, the other title for the drawing, truly started with a mouse.
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My childhood in one picture .
I miss you all
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They say it all started with a mouse, but we mustn't forget who came before Mickey.
There was a lucky rabbit who existed before him, and made by the same person, no less...
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Yes, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but Walt Disney lost control of the character to Universal Pictures. Sadly, a common hazard when you create a character for another company unless you make it clear in the contract that you still retain the rights to the character. Anyway, So when Walt Disney said that we mustn't forget that it all started with a mouse, he meant the Walt Disney Company, which is true. Oswald doesn't return to the Disney family until eight decades after Walt Disney lost him. Still, he is an important piece that would lead to the creation of Mickey Mouse.
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Very true. I am glad that the Walt Disney company got the rights for Oswald, though.
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U know. I never got the appeal of Mickey mouse
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You have a great picture and you can read kartoon kompany's story that have the same title.
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Thank you! I'm glad that you liked it. I'll certainly check out Kartoon Kompany's story. Thanks for letting me know about it!
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I'm not so sure about the Warner Bros. cartoons. Because their animation studio was founded less than a decade after Disney, and I'm not certain if Disney was big news at the time.
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Yes, he was. Without the original Disney Oswald & Fanny or Ortensia, there's no Bosko & Honey AND without Universal's stolen Oswald redesign, there's no Bugs; without Mickey & Minnie and Donald & Daisy and Dippy Dawg/George G. Geef/Goofy, there's no Foxy & Rocky and Daffy & Melissa and Goopy Geer; without "The Three Little Pigs" Silly Symphony - particularly Practical Pig's design - there's no Porky...
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Yeah, it was because of Walt Disney and Mickey that inspiried alot of people to create their own cartoons and characters.
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This is beautiful! Well done, you should be very proud
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it's a really cool drawing, and I agree with you... it all started with a mouse in my opinion, too... but every one is free to think differently
I love your coyote in the background, haha!!
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cool picture, but you do realize that it didn't start with a mouse. it started with a rabbit. Or at least it did for Walt Disney. Actually, I think the first cartoon was Gertie the Dinosaur which I'm pretty sure Walt Disney drew inspiration from. Just saying.
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Although Walt Disney did create Oswald the Lucky Rabbit he experienced what many artists experienced back then, which was he lost all rights to that character because he didn't make sure that he kept ownership to his characters when he signed the contract for Universal. It's true that Oswald did lead to Mickey because if Disney hadn't lost ownership of the character there would not have been a Mickey Mouse. Mickey's success is what built the Disney Company.
Winsor McCay, the creator of Gertie the Dinosaur, is considered the Father of Animation, but Walt Disney and his Nine Old Men set down the rules of animation that pretty much everybody in the field follow. So if there was no Walt Disney where would animation be today? That's basically the question that my piece is asking everybody.
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First, it's Oswald's failure that lead to Mickey's success which lead to the success of the disney company. In other words. Oswald's the reason for Disney's success.
Second, If there was no walt disney, life would definitely be different. But there would still be animation. Walt only invented some of the characters and only drew a few of the cartoons. Iwerks was the guy who did most of the animation anyways.
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This is the second time I've seen a lot of Toons in one location
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