I posted this image of Milt Kahl drawings before. Here is Thomas O'Malley, the alley cat from The Aristocats, drawn with stripes. It is hard to imagine that during a time of tight budgets at Disney (post Walt), the studio was even considering adding this pattern on to the character. It would have taken longer and it would have been expensive to bring O'Malley to the screen.
Here are a couple of realistic "cat with stripes" sheets. They come from the estate of Ollie Johnston, though I am not sure if Ollie drew these. He might have, because Ollie ended up animating a lot of scenes with O'Malley...without the stripes.
Interesting how much a drawing loses (not even counting the stripes) when it gets Xerographed onto a cel and painted. It just doesn't have the same energy.
ReplyDeleteI love it every time Milt does that that little slightly-squared kink in the outline to show the thickness of the skin/fat (as on O'Malley's back in the middle drawing)
ReplyDeleteO'Malley in Stripes, powered by q Flipper.
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