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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · Jul 8

Animation model sheet galleries:
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Updated & revised every now and then. :)

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 13h

Trouble with Tron movies is not just the scripts, but also them obsessively making world of Tron look more and more mundane. Wanna dazzle the audience? Maintain the surrealness, the alieness of that world:
youtu.be/yN5TYdSqYVg

Tron 1982 | Tron and Yori hijack the Solar Sail simulation |

YouTube video by Binary Retro Clips

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 1d

Article on Battleram Blog was written on 40th anniversary. Main point is that it addresses the fake "birthday".

DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 1d

Eeeexcept that it doesn't: battleramblog.com/he-man-in-th...

DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 1d

Ain't the case of snobbery, but of a destructive psycho.

DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 2d

BTW, go to 19:30 to see Cullen crack up everyone with an adlib. 8]

DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 2d

Before Peter Cullen hit it big with voice acting, he was doing lots of live action gigs:
youtu.be/WHQkTjDgLAE

Young Peter Cullen | The Buddies (1968)

YouTube video by Not found

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 2d

And both considered for the use on the show. Probably why final Optimus ended up with an all-red cab in truck mode.

DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 2d

Remember that drawing of toy Bumblebee in Marvel US issue 16, on the splash page? Weeeell it's up on Heritage Auctions.

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 2d

Yup.

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Dani @daniexists6.bsky.social · 3d

I think it's funnier that someone got this signed by the original Turtles.

the ad from above, but signed by Renee Jacobs (April O'Neil, with a "guess not...", Barry Gordon (Donatello, with a "YEAH RIGHT!"), Townsend Coleman (Michelangelo, with a "Still here!"), Rob Paulsen (Raphael) and Cam Clarke (Leonardo, with a "Crystal Ball, anyone?")

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 2d

Thankfully her reign of terror fizzled out in the 90's. Alas, there are still those who unawarely parrot her words. Especially when 80's cartoons are being talked about.

DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 2d

She was so obsessed that she dragged studios and toy companies to congress. For example: www.google.rs/books/editio...

Children's Television Programming : Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-n...

www.google.rs

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 2d

She claimed that she's fine when products are based on a show/movie - but that was BS as well. As evident by her going after Thundercats (THAT was the case of toys being based on the show). Went after it even before it even aired:

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 2d

In the 60's she obliterated sponsorships in kid shows: archive.org/details/alma...

Many of which had to cease productions as the finances dried up. This also led many animation studios to start outsourcing overseas as they could no longer afford doing it all domestically.

Almanac Extra: Children's Television (1987) Part 1 : KTCA-TV Channel 2 Minneapolis/St. Paul PBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Special program on Children's television, national, international and local. Featuring reports, commentary and discussions with educators, advertisers and...

archive.org

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 2d

Real menace were the watchdog groups. Like Peggy Charren's Action for Children's TV. For decades she went on to DESTROY animation industry under pretense of "commercial bad" and "VIOLENCE!!!!".

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 2d

Oh that was just a trade ad war. Marketing teams were playing dirty non-stop. Old VS new, new VS new... it was wild.

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 4d

One of these retro figures was designed by someone who actually grasped retro aesthetics.

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 4d

Why is this a thing? I get one or two videos on same subjects but these just keep on getting made, regurgitating same thing over and over again...

DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 4d

That Rodimus model seems a bit ahead of its time.

DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 6d

Production of "Asterix and Cleopatra" animated adaptation:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=45mT...

Astérix et Cléopâtre (Bande annonce en couleurs 1968)

YouTube video by LesGrandsClassiques.fr

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TFRaw.com Transformers Multimedia Archive @walruslaw.bsky.social · 6d

I do also have a full image without the text that came from a 5x7 press image for the film that was part of a pack sent to magazines/newspapers to use in articles and was later used as the base for the poster Vice Press released a few years ago.

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 6d

That time Longhaul, Starscream and Wheeljack were on a movie poster:

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 6d

If they do a Quintesson and Allicon - hopefully they keep in mind that TFTM cast were done per pre-final models so those ought to look like this. (Don't have the pre-final Allicon, but it's probably safe to say it didn't differ from pre-Toei buff one seen in Akom eps)

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🎃Rikor Mortis🎃 @slightlyonfire.bsky.social · 7d

I think it’s very important that everybody knows that Missing Link Arcee can ride G1 Wreck-Gar. She fits PERFECTLY! Butt fits the seat, hands go over the handlebars (they can’t push in but cover them), legs look natural. Wreck-Gar has waited 39 years for a rider in the right style - worth the wait!

Transformers Missing Link Arcee sit atop Wreck-Gar looking BADASS

VROOOM!!!! (… no, wait, that’s another guy)

Of course it’s natural that Arcee would look great riding a motorcycle!

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DM @grimdm.bsky.social · 7d

One thing I despise about digital ink & paint animated works is that 99% time they lack this organic look, with lines that have actual weight and small imperfections that give it a soul: