KongToons [2]: Queensberry Rules
Here we see the second in my new series, KONGTOONS: and this sucker is hewn in Full Technicolor, no less.
This image looks much more accomplished when viewed large-scale, so hit that expand button, dear reader, as there is a fair bit in this one, much more detail than I usually bother with these days, but this is pretty much what I was looking for-------This cartoon has a spacious, epic look, but the reality is that it was actually put together using just two sheets of A4 paper---three, if you also count the Fay Wray-a-like tiny foreground character,and word balloon, added as a seperate pass and shrunken way down.
I have also provided a seperate MONOCHROMATIC version, which turned out a lot better than I envisaged, unlike the previous Kongtoon, this one here is just a quick 'desaturate' job on a copy of the color version, but that 1933 b/w vibe is most apparant: this version will be screened on here shortly.
Explanations for the uninitiated: the Victorian-styled boxing stance from Kong and the Dino is a reference to lead Animator Willis O'Brien, [ O'BIE'] an ex- pro prize-fighter, who used to attend actual boxing matches during preparation for the animation, in order to pick up brawling pointers for this battle between the behemoths-------see also another example of those darned tabletop pliers, carelessly left within the scenario.
This image looks much more accomplished when viewed large-scale, so hit that expand button, dear reader, as there is a fair bit in this one, much more detail than I usually bother with these days, but this is pretty much what I was looking for-------This cartoon has a spacious, epic look, but the reality is that it was actually put together using just two sheets of A4 paper---three, if you also count the Fay Wray-a-like tiny foreground character,and word balloon, added as a seperate pass and shrunken way down.
I have also provided a seperate MONOCHROMATIC version, which turned out a lot better than I envisaged, unlike the previous Kongtoon, this one here is just a quick 'desaturate' job on a copy of the color version, but that 1933 b/w vibe is most apparant: this version will be screened on here shortly.
Explanations for the uninitiated: the Victorian-styled boxing stance from Kong and the Dino is a reference to lead Animator Willis O'Brien, [ O'BIE'] an ex- pro prize-fighter, who used to attend actual boxing matches during preparation for the animation, in order to pick up brawling pointers for this battle between the behemoths-------see also another example of those darned tabletop pliers, carelessly left within the scenario.
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