Skeletel Systems of Cartoon Characters

[fresnelly]

By Artist Michael Paulus

A CHARACTER STUDY OF 22 PRESENT AND PAST CARTOON CHARACTERS

Animation was the format of choice for children's television in the 1960s, a decade in which children's programming became almost entirely animated. Growing up in that period, I tended to take for granted the distortions and strange bodies of these entities.

These Icons are usually grotesquely distorted from the human form from which they derive. Being that they are so commonplace and accepted as existing I thought I would dissect them like science does to all living objects - trying to come to an understanding as to their origins and true physiological make up. Possibly to better understand them and see them in a new light for what they are in the most basic of terms.

I decided to take a select few of these popular characters and render their skeletal systems as I imagine they might resemble if one truly had eye sockets half the size of its head, or fingerless-hands, or feet comprising 60% of its body mass.

Link: http://michaelpaulus.com/gallery/v/character-Skeletons/

[Jetée]

Surpisingly, the animals depicted look more human than the actual cartoon people do.

Tweety Bird looks like a normal seven-year-old.

[troit]

The skulls are a bit distorted, mostly oversized - interesting though.

[hotzot]

Were most of them done post mortum? I didn't know Fred Flintstone was dead?

[suncrafter]

Good link. I'll add it to my links list. Thank you.