otherworlding
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Design sketches (and a model sheet) for Hanna-Barbera’s Yogi Bear. The character debuted in 1958 in the Huckleberry Hound Show.
Concept art for Hanna-Barbera’s WACKY RACES (1968) (and a sheet with color models).
A gallery of vintage Hanna-Barbera title cards.
The three Technicolor Phantoms (Chocolate, Strawberry and Vanilla) from SCOOBY-DOO episode, “Ghost of the Bad Humor Man” (1976).
Concept drawings for Hanna-Barbera’s SCOOBY-DOO by Alvaro Arce and others. 1969/70s.
SCOOBY-DOO animation backgrounds.
The show always had these great settings. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a show where terror and humor were so ideally balanced—the villains were genuinely scary, the characters genuinely funny.
The Conference of the Birds, Persian Manuscript, circa 1600; Safavid Iran (Isfahan)
The Changelings, from Cyrus Graner's Among Gnomes and Trolls 7 by John Bauer (1913)
John Bauer - Sleigh ride to Christmas Eve - Cover image for the magazine "Julstämning" (1908)
'She Kissed The Bear On Muzzle' - John Bauer
John Bauer - The Ring, Riding in the moonlight, 1914
illustrator john kenn mortenson
Illustration by Justin Todd for a 1987 edition of WIND IN THE WILLOWS.
Animation art from THE WILLOWS IN WINTER (1995).
UK stop motion animated film, THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS (1983). Love the character designs and the colors.
Illustrations by E.H. Shepard for the 1931 edition of WIND IN THE WILLOWS.
Disneyland attraction, (THE EXTRATERRORESTRIAL) ALIEN ENCOUNTER. 1994-2003. Concept art and images of the show and the characters.
(That’s an alien Tyra Banks in images 5 and 6. I’ve always liked Tyra Banks for some reason. Oh right, don’t forget to “smize”.)
Krypton concept art by Chris Foss for SUPERMAN (1978).
The movie had great locations. What is a film without distinctive, memorable locations and visual concepts? Krypton, the icy Fortress of Solitude, the yellow cornfields of Smallville, the spacy nothingness of The Phantom Zone. Or look at STAR WARS: a golden robot in a desert, a lone silvery starfighter in a dark, hostile trench, the small dirty farmboy in white versus the black, armored giant.
Ian Miller cover art for THE HAUNTER OF THE DARK AND OTHER STORIES (1974).
Illustration of a keukegen, from Toriyama Sekien's Konjaku Hyakki Shūi (ca. 1781). A keukegen is a small disease spirit covered in a mass of filthy hair, which usually resides in dark and damp places in populated areas.
British artist, Paul Rumsey.
Art by Aron Wiesenfeld.
Sculptures by Scott Radke.
Aliens of the 1980s: the robots from BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED (1987), the KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE (1988), the Greys from COMMUNION (1988), the cute lizard baby from V (1984), and Mister Burns—no, an undisguised alien from COCOON (1985).
In addition to the other post—balloon designs by Tim Burton, for BATMAN (1989).
What is one of the scariest movie scenes you know? For me, it has to be the subway peddler scene from THE WIZ (1978), one of my all-time favorite films. It’s a slow, wordless nightmare, with no payoff: the last time we see the clown puppets, they’re still nonchalantly roaming the subway, looking for prey.
When Dorothy and her friends flee up the stairs, the patterns on the floor look like pools of blood.
SOIR BLEU (1914), by Edward Hopper; and his last work—a final bow—TWO COMEDIANS (1965).
Ronald McDonald weirdness.
Ophthalmologist sign in Tainan City, Taiwan, 1962.