Model Sheet Monday: Piglet

Here's a beautiful model sheet of Piglet from 2011's Winnie the Pooh film.

 

Trick or Treat

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!

Halloween Parade of Villains Countdown number 1

We come to the end of our countdown with arguably the most evil villain on the Disney roster...the devil himself Chernabog! So at number 1 we give you Night on Bald Mountain form Fantasia...Happy Halloween everyone!

Halloween Parade of Villains Countdown number 2

We near the end of our countdown with a song that in its own right belongs at number 1....but unfortunately falls at number 2 for this countdown. Without further delay...Scar with Be Prepared...from the Lion King of course.

Halloween Parade of Villains Countdown number 3

We continue our countdown of Disney Villains songs will Ursula's Poor Unfortunate Souls from The Little Mermaid.

Halloween Parade of Villains Countdown number 4

The parade rolls on by Mardi Gras Style with a little diddy by Dr. Facilier from the Princess and the Frog

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Halloween Parade of Villains Countown number 5

At number 12... Here's a particularly evil song by Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Halloween Parade of Villains Countdown number 6

We have now come to number 6 on our countdown with The Mob Song from Beauty and the Beast. As a kid this song made me want to punch Gaston in the face.

Halloween Parade of Villains Countdown number 7

We march on with the very powerful Savages from Pocohantas.

Halloween Parade of Villains Countdown number 8

You can't have a Disney Halloween countdown of any kind without the Headless Horseman song from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mister Toad.

Halloween Parade of Villains Countdown number 9

At number 9 we bring you one of the greatest Disney villains of all time...Cruella De Ville.

Halloween Parade of Villains Countdown number 10

We couldn't have this countdown without the Boogy Man himself...Oogie Boogie from A Nightmare Before Christmas.

Halloween Parade of Villains Countdown number 11

The Villains keep marching by...or in this case slither. This is Kaa attempting to eat a certain man-cub in The Jungle Book.

Halloween Parade of Villains Countdown number 12

Definitely not the scariest villains on the countdown....unless you're Winnie the Pooh.

Halloween Parade of Villains Countdown number 13

Today we begin our countown of the top 13 Disney Villains songs! These little devils always rubbed me the wrong way....which is something you would never want to do to them.

Halloween Parade of Villains

Beginning tomorrow, we're counting down the top 13 Disney villains songs in what I like to call....The Halloween Parade of Villains. So be sure to check us out every day for another of your favorite songs.

Model Sheet Monday: Huey from Quack Pack

In 1994, Disney added the Donald Duck series Quack Pack to its Disney Afternoon programming block. It only ran for one season and has quietly been forgotten. The series centered around Donald working as camera man for traveling reporter Daisy Duck with his 3, now teenage, nephews in tow. The nephews were redesigned and each given distinctly different personalities. Here's a look at Huey.

Happy Birthday Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

In 1927, Walt Disney and, his friend and collaborator, Ub Iwerks, after the bankruptcy of his Laugh-o-Gram Studio and move to Hollywood, embarked on a new adventure with Universal Studios.  Universal was hungry to get into the animation business so Disney's distributor Charles Mintz suggested that he and Ub create something that they could sell to the studio. Hungry to get back in the game, Walt signed a contract with Universal and soon Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was born.
After a failed attempt with the cartoon "Poor Papa", the duo created the cartoon "Trolley Troubles". Released on Sept 5th, 1927, the short was a huge hit and shot the character to stardom. Oswald became one of the first characters to show real personality using physical comedy to solve situations. It's said that his courageous and adventurous side was based on Douglas Fairbanks. In the spring of 1928, with Oswald proving to be a big money maker for Universal, Walt traveled to New York to negotiate with his producer Charles Mintz for a higher paycheck. Instead of more money, Mintz instead offered Walt a 20% pay cut due to an economic downturn. Walt wasn't going to have it and quit, making that famous return trip to Hollywood that would result in a creation that would make Disney a household name around the world. Mintz, now armed with the creative force of most of Disney's staff, continued to produce Oswald cartoons including the first sound cartoon in the series. Walt had created 26 shorts and Mintz followed with 26 more before Walter Lantz (eventual creator of Woody Woodpecker) took over in 1929. Lantz consulted with Disney before he started and soldiered on with his blessing creating a total of 142 Oswald shorts before the rabbit made his final appearance alongside Woody Woodpecker in 1951's The Woody Woodpecker Polka. Over the years, Oswald would have several different looks and his voice would be provided by several different voice actors, most notably Pinto Colvig (Goofy)  and Mickey Rooney.
In February 2006, Disney CEO Bob Iger initiated a trade with NBC Universal in which the rights to Oswald were acquired in exchange for sending sportscaster Al Michaels from ABC Sports (owned by Disney) to NBC Sports. The deal included all of Walt's original 26 shorts but left the rest in control of Universal. Since reaquiring the rights, Disney has done a small relaunch of the character with merchandise and most noticeably the Epic Mickey video game franchise. Epic Mickey 2 also gives Oswald a voice for the first time in a Disney production with the vocal talents of Frank Welker. So today, we say Happy Birthday to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, may there be many more.

Model Sheet Monday: Beck from Tron Uprising

One of my favorite series on TV right now is Tron Uprising on Disney XD. It follows a program named Beck who is destined to become the next Tron.

Model Sheet Monday: Goofy in the 1950's

As a new feature on Amazing Cosmic Powers, every Monday we'll be posting a different model sheet featuring some of your favorite characters. For those not in the know,  a model sheet, or character study, is used to help standardize the appearance, gestures, and poses of a character in Animation.

In the 1950's, Disney's iconic character Goofy went through some pretty major design changes. Often referred to as George Geef in that decade, Goofy was made into a family man. He was given a son named Junior and a wife, but you only saw her occasional hands and feet. His over-all facial structure was altered to include a widows peak hair-line, two separate eyes (as opposed to his classic un- separated eyes in the shape of an "m") with eye-brows, and his famous buck teeth had been pushed to the middle. A variation of this model was used for Goof Troop in the early nineties.