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jbwarner86 — Maxine's Wardrobe - Part 2
Published: 2007-06-11 01:52:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 6058; Favourites: 69; Downloads: 197
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As I promised, here's the second part of Maxine Mink's extensive wardrobe. According to my history for the BarbozaToons, Maxine and Gunter appeared in two cartoons a year every year from 1954 until 1960, when they and much of the rest of the regular BarbozaToon characters were forcibly retired. So, eight down, six to go...And no, the black-and-white Maxine for "The Maltese Mink" isn't a mistake - it's a film noir parody that goes the extra mile and actually emulates the monochromatic, shadow-heavy look of the genre. Other studios' cartoons in the 1940s and 1950s did film noir spoofs, but they all remained in color, and I thought it'd be neat to take it a step further.
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Is it right to find cartoon animals sexy? Who cares!
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As long as you recognize the fact that they are indeed cartoons, I don't think there's too much of a problem with it.
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Dude, Remind me to never challenge you. This maxine series is Tits Coo.
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Probably part of the reason that the spoofs were in color is that it was recent enough (though not new) that making black-and-white would seem like a step backwards. The other part is that black-and-white color schemes need their own choices, not things copied directly from color and turned black-and-white. But you know more of the history than I do, so those are just some thoughts.
My favorite one is "The Maltese Mink" because I'm a sucker for film noir.
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The costumes are adorable and really suit her, and your style is cute as always, but you know what I really like about these? The parody movie titles. Especially on the first one--they TOTALLY sound like Marilyn Monroe-movie titles. I was cracking up.
Question: For the black-and-white picture, did you draw it in colour first and then turn it greyscale with an option in your image-editing program, or did you pick out different shades of grey to begin with? I ask because I sometimes do black-and-white cartoon pictures, and while I _usually_ use the first method (saving the colour version to a seperate file as I do so), not always. So I'm curious.
...Notorious
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Yeah...I never knew that about the black and white cartoons...interesting. With my own stuff, I basically take the tack that this isn't REALLY a cartoon; it's a cartoon rendition of something that, if you could go to their universe, would be "real". Hence, the following logic: Since black-and-white live action movies were, of course, colour in _reality_, while they were being filmed, I do the original versions of my pics in colour--the "on the set" version, captured and preserved as the colours of the old movies couldn't be. Then I turn it black and white to show how the finished "film" looks to us, the audience.
...well, it made some kind of sense to me at the time...
Oh, and nice snark on the "Spacejam" like thing. Heh. It's kind of like how when I made up that one anime character, I not only wrote a bio for him, but made up stuff about the imaginary "show" he was from--including how the American dub version censored out entire storylines and changed characters' relationships around to make it "safe for the kiddies", etc. Not that I'm making a COMMENT about anything, oh, _my_ no.
(flutters eyelashes innocently)
Er, sorry about babbling on so long. Eek.
...Notorious
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I actually did it all in shades of gray, just like they really did for the black-and-white cartoons of the 1930s (most people think that they made the '30s cartoons in color and then just filmed them in black-and-white, but according to Warner Bros. ink-and-paint girl Martha Sigall, that wasn't the case).
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"Hecklin' Jekyll". Nice homage, my friend.
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Definately liking the Mer-Mink outfit! But I also have a fondness for her 1957 costumes. I reckon "The Maltese Mink" must have saved quite a bit on colour, too, huh?
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Oh JB, these are beautiful. I especially like "The Little Mer-Mink".
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