Daily Ed #54

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: Dawn of the Eds
Season: 1

Daily Ed #53

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: Knock Knock, Who's Ed
Season: 2

Daily Ed #52

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: Honor Thy Ed
Season: 2

Now for download: The Spümcø Coffee Table Art Book!

Well, tonight I did intend on writing another Ren and Stimpy post, but I think this is more important at the moment.

Does the idea of owning this unpublished book sound confusing? A little bewildered? Well, you can, in fact, download it. Special thanks to Keegs on the World Animation Discord guild for sharing this wonderful PDF!

Link to Spümcø Coffee Table book: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nn751-3JrSHKX8Pb-GpdQyt_HPLQxUbn
Invite to World Animation Discord Guild: https://discord.gg/QwzJpYj

Cheers!

Daily Ed #51

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: Stuck in Ed
Season: 4

Daily Ed #50

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: Fool on the Ed
Season: 1

Daily Ed #49

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: An Ed Too Many
Season: 1

Daily Ed #48

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: Mirror Mirror on the Ed
Season: 4

Daily Ed #47

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: Stuck in Ed
Season: 4

Daily Ed #46

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: Knock Knock, Who's Ed
Season: 2

Daily Ed #45

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: Knock Knock, Who's Ed
Season: 2

Weird, primitive drawings in the first Ren and Stimpy cartoons

It's been a couple of weeks since I've posted, and I'd like to apologize for that. Hopefully, this should make up for all the time I've been gone.

I've been watching a lot of The Ren & Stimpy Show after finishing The Hep Cat, and I came to realize that the first four or so cartoons in the series are... pretty slip-shod. A lot of the drawings are primitive and loose, and that is what I plan to showcase today.

Not that these cartoons are bad; I really like them! But I just can't look at them the same way I did before.

You can tell that this is an early Ren and Stimpy just from the color styling. It's a lot more neutral here than it came to be later in the rest of the run. The characters are also drawn very simply; there aren't as many planes and shapes holding the characters together than the end of this first season.

There were also a lot of funny-looking drawings, just for the sake of being strange. I'm glad they fixed this later (and it's too bad that Games reverted to these out-of-context weird drawings when they took over the show).

Ren really looks weird here, doesn't he? His construction isnt as nice and solid as it got a little later, and he looks really flat. Not a whole lot of appeal. Then again, he looked okay in Big House Blues, so maybe some of the overseas studios can take the blame for a lot of these bad drawings. Who knows?

Toes!

Very simple staging here too. Everything's in the center of the screen, which tends to be a thing a lot of beginners do, myself included.

I really like how this looks though. Varied composition and really cool colors!

I actually really dig this drawing. It's funny to see this early side view of Stimpy!

Weird eye wrinkles, but I actually like these too.

This expression is kind of odd, though. It just seems to float. Nothing is keeping these features in place.

John K. went on a lot about there being an "Insect Ren," but I would like to refer to this as "Bird Ren." Check out that mouth (or beak, rather)!

What do you think? I'll be posting more of these caps soon enough, so stay tuned! (On another note, I can't stand these awful "remasters" of the Ren and Stimpy cartoons. They're so disgusting!)

Daily Ed #44

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: Who, What, Where, Ed
Season: 1

Daily Ed #43

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: A Pinch to Grow an Ed
Season: 1

Daily Ed #42

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: 3 Squares And an Ed
Season: 3

Daily Ed #41

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: Momma's Little Ed
Season: 3

Daily Ed #40

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: If It Smells Like an Ed
Season: 4

Daily Ed #39

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: Pop Goes the Ed
Season: 1

Daily Ed #38

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: Fa La La La Ed
Season: 2

Daily Ed #37

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: Run For Your Ed
Season: 4

Daily Ed #36

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: An Ed Too Many
Season: 1

Daily Ed #35

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: Little Ed Blues
Season: 4

Daily Ed #34

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: 3 Squares and an Ed
Season: 3

Daily Ed #33

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: Hot Buttered Ed
Season: 2

Daily Ed #32

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: Out With the Old... In With the Ed
Season: 5

Daily Ed #31

A series where I post a funny Ed, Edd n Eddy image every day. Think of "an apple a day", but instead it's buttered toast.

Episode: Quick Shot Ed
Season: 1

The Hep Cat [part five]: Excellent backgrounds again, and the closing!

It looks like we'll wrap this up here right quick! The end of the cartoon comes in this post.

Some of this vibrating drybrush is pretty great. I open these posts a lot with these, don't I? I'll deliberately not start these this way in the future.

I didn't realize how many throw-away backgrounds there are in this cartoon, especially this late into it. Some of them last for a fraction of a fraction of a second, but they're golden! I got a few in here if you want to admire them in your sleep like I do.

More Clampett shadows. He uses these more than the other directors from what I've seen. They're really good at conveying action!

Heaven for your eyes, especially that top painting. Who the hell could paint like this now? I know I'd like to!

This is a different effect, but I really like it! Soft blending of colors for a motion blur looks surprisingly good here!

Oh God.

Is this where body pillows came from? Is this entire farce Clampett's fault?

"I can dream, can't I?" Words of a true fanatic.

If so, then this is a really good anime.

And that's the end of the picture! Not a whole lot to talk about in terms of story structure here since it is mostly slapstick, but it's decent enough! I might revisit some of this stuff later when I get the chance.

I think I'll post some one-off articles on other studios later (I have a good one about Fleischer if you like innovative motion picture technology!). What cartoon should I pick apart next, though?

Cheers!