"Though many covet my bone and bowl, they're barking up the wrong tree..."
Every eighties kid's Disney Canon OTP. Myself, Georgette was one of my queer-middle-schooler-who-still-watches-Disney-movies idols. Bette Midler as a catty, fashionista society bitch - and I do mean bitch, darling. I want to be reincarnated as her at some point. The movie's five times better just by her presence.
First time I've ever drawn either, if you can believe that...
Georgette is the ur-example of something I mention in character design - I believe these characters were both Mike Gabriel's designs? Keane's scenes with Georgette look so little like the model sheets the rest of the animators apparently drew from - A character doesn't necessarily look as good in a still image as in motion, or vice versa. Georgette's abstract mouth looks great in animation, but that awkward long muzzle pins needly across the screen - and yet, in a still picture, that long muzzle looks amazing but her awkward mouth-cheek juncture looks absolutely horrid. A poor attempt at a Milt Kahl angle cheek. Disney really was inbred...
It's weird, Disney never makes any mention of this movie, it's dated so poorly. And it's obvious that little to none of it was written by New Yorkers, but it WAS written by people unfamiliar with colluding a script and storyboard. But it's a little time capsule to an era where kids were told to identify with really rich people, companies could be as racist as they wanted, and Huey Lewis and Billy Joel could make something seem hip. It's wonderful.
I have four versions of this with different colors, decided to go with this one.
Georgette and Tito © Disney Enterprises
Every eighties kid's Disney Canon OTP. Myself, Georgette was one of my queer-middle-schooler-who-still-watches-Disney-movies idols. Bette Midler as a catty, fashionista society bitch - and I do mean bitch, darling. I want to be reincarnated as her at some point. The movie's five times better just by her presence.
First time I've ever drawn either, if you can believe that...
Georgette is the ur-example of something I mention in character design - I believe these characters were both Mike Gabriel's designs? Keane's scenes with Georgette look so little like the model sheets the rest of the animators apparently drew from - A character doesn't necessarily look as good in a still image as in motion, or vice versa. Georgette's abstract mouth looks great in animation, but that awkward long muzzle pins needly across the screen - and yet, in a still picture, that long muzzle looks amazing but her awkward mouth-cheek juncture looks absolutely horrid. A poor attempt at a Milt Kahl angle cheek. Disney really was inbred...
It's weird, Disney never makes any mention of this movie, it's dated so poorly. And it's obvious that little to none of it was written by New Yorkers, but it WAS written by people unfamiliar with colluding a script and storyboard. But it's a little time capsule to an era where kids were told to identify with really rich people, companies could be as racist as they wanted, and Huey Lewis and Billy Joel could make something seem hip. It's wonderful.
I have four versions of this with different colors, decided to go with this one.
Georgette and Tito © Disney Enterprises
Category Cel Shading / Fanart
Species Dog (Other)
Size 1280 x 838px
File Size 126.9 kB
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