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Set Project: Seeking for inspirations

 Since the past week, I started to watch films of the late 60s. I do it so because I need a visual stimulus for making illustrations. As results, I am convinced of a smooth start basing on my memory. Honestly, for years I was looking for a useable source for movies, interviews and a lot more. By and large, youtube handling very limited data regarding the years 1960-1970. Once I found out the book in pdf version from archive.org, I dig deeper into available sources. This is undoubtedly, even boundless website, managing thousands of archives. There, I found a section with Art&Culture, also rare movies. For instance, animations from the 60s in order to understand how the colours worked there and how do characters look like. I am not a big fan of all cinematography from those times however, without those films, nowadays the television would not work that well. 


Nevertheless, I found also animations with a strong influence on pop culture. I believe, that in 1967 for instance, people being fuzzy were willing to watch those cartoons. Therefore even the lyrics, which I intend to work on, are soaked by the trip and lecture guidance.  

I virtually did not point out the example of such animation. It is, with not an ambitious title The Wacky World Of Mother Goose. Where the main character ''Mother Goose'' is dressed as a magician. Except for the loyal means of conveyance - the goose, everyone from her village has a bit blunt smiley face. The other striking fact is that Mother Goose cooking pot. Which hopefully does not mean pot. And her despicable enemy Count Walktwist with twisted legs wearing a green uniform. Therefore, I have a suspicion of a source for inspiration in many more rock culture outcomes. And according to that suspicion, I consider eventually watching that sort of cartoons to be fully inspired with. I mean that, by understanding in-depth my subject of matter.


Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment, The Wacky World Of Mother Goose, 1966

And here is my approach in this direction:



 The key element was facial features. The appliance of primary colours and dark ink also suggest the bond between Naive art. Overall, it is my simplified version of some of the cartoon's spots.


References:
The Wacky World of Mother Goose. (1967) Directed by The Wacky World of Mother Goose. Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment.

Comments

  1. Sam Dargan4 May 2021 at 21:59

    Never heard of this animation - it was a revelation to me. You made some interesting links to your work here. Follow up with a look at shorter cartoons of this era, such as Wacky Races, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, Dastardly and Muttley - they are animated in a similar way and are very evocative of the time.

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