REN & STIMPY creator (and my former boss) John Kricfalusi has been writing a lot on his blog recently about animation design. As with everything else he writes, John has some very definite ideas about what makes for good animation design and whether you agree or not, his thoughts are well worth reading.
The design posts include this one about a John Hubley-produced E-Z POP TV commercial, a piece about the backgrounds in Chuck Jones’s INKI AND THE MYNAH BIRD (1943), which were designed by John McGrew, and a new post about Art Lozzi’s backgrounds in the Yogi Bear TV cartoon SCOOTER LOOTER. I’ve been critical of the H-B backgrounds earlier, but the Lozzi backgrounds in this particular cartoon are gorgeous and perfectly designed for animation. When the work is good, it’s good, and there’s no argument against that.
