Unused Concept Art from the Haunted Mansion Animated: The Tiger Hunter

Hey all you fans of the Disney Parks Haunted Mansion, I've got something fun to show you I think.

As part of my Halloween celebration, I got the idea to animate some of the unused concept art to see how that scene might look if it was actually installed in the Haunted Mansion.

For Marc Davis' s concept art of the "Tiger Hunter" I animated it two different ways: First, I animated the art only, and made to move like it was an animatronic scene. Secondly, I animated a crude simulated ride through as if you were in your "doombuggies" complete with sound and lighting effects. Check it out...



Some additional thoughts and comments...

I wish I had the time to fully animate the classic "Story and Song" cover art for my opening titles. It would have looked cool, but that would also be a lot of work to prep that art for animation. Maybe next year.

Marc Davis was a genius at staging a scene. Everything reads so clearly. I hope I managed to come close to what he was envisioning. All the tiger heads on the wall are drawn differently, and so I animated them each in different ways.

Audio for my simulated ride through was challenging. If anyone out there reading this has a good sound effect for a laughing tiger I would love to hear it because I couldn't find anything suitable. Although losing the laughing effect was probably for the best since the sound for that scene was getting pretty full. I basically only used the growling, hiccuping and the hunter's ranting (which I turned way, way down). I dumped the bone crunching, panting, and laughing (which wasn't good anyway) because I found it all to be just too much noise.

Revenge of the Travel Brochures from the Darkside Part 1: Terror on Church Street

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After you enjoy your day at Walt Disney World, head to Downtown Orlando to have the culottes scared off you at the Anthony Perkins endorsed Terror on Church Street.

Wait a minute, this just in... Terror on Church Street is no longer in operation. Sorry about that folks.

Well please enjoy the graphically cool Terror on Church Street brochure.

The company that produced Terror on Church Street is based in Spain, and still operates haunted attractions in various countries.  Check out their site if you dare. 

Monster Monday #1: The Deadly One-Eye Monster

I was a kid who loved monsters, and would draw them all the time. For this month-long Halloween celebration, I thought it would be fun to dig up some of my childhood monster drawings, and redraw them now as an adult.

The monster above I drew when I was about 9 years old. Surprisingly, I still have memories of drawing this. I remember I was attempting to create the ultimate deadly monster. It had electricity it could shoot from its head antennae and tail. The creature has two whip-like appendages with spike balls at the end that is can swing to hit its opponent with. Last but not least, one arm was a claw. I don't know why I gave the monster human-like feet (FYI: yeah those were how I'd draw human feet), I probably thought it was funny. Also I believe I was attempting to use about every color of marker I had too.

So now without further delay, people of the Internets, I present to you the new and updated "Deadly One-Eye Monster" for 2009...

Unique Haunted Attraction Ad #1: Wonka's Fear Factory

From the 2001 Fear Finder...

To the best of my knowledge this particular attraction ran only one season, but I'm sure that damn boat ride was terrifying.

And so it begins....sorta

You know, I seriously considered participating in that Halloween Countdown thing that so many of my fellow bloggers are doing. But I just didn't have the time to properly prepare a "quality" post each day for the entire month of October.

So instead of a post each and every day, what do you say to a post about 3 times a week? (Well that's a rhetorical question, it's not like you're gonna have a choice).

To kick off this whole month long celebration to Halloween (and anything kooky and spooky) I have some retro Halloween napkins to share with you. Yeah I'm surprised as much as you are that I'm back to posting about napkins after my Groucho napkins posts. But I like the graphics on these - especially the one with the haunted house.

Also maybe someone who Googles "retro Halloween napkins" will find just what they were looking for, and I'm happy I could help. So you're very welcome possible future Google searcher, and these napkin close-ups are just for you...

Baseball Super Freaks: Part 7

And this post concludes my Baseball Super Freaks collection presentation...

Baseball Super Freaks: Part 6