How To Draw: Funny animals in 30 seconds. Part 4

Each of Mickey's hands has only three fingers and a thumb. Disney said that this was both an artistic and financial decision, explaining "Artistically five digits are too many for a mouse. His hand would look like a bunch of bananas. Financially, not having an extra finger in each of 45, drawings that make up a six and one-half minute short has saved the Studio millions. The use of white gloves would prove to be an influential design for cartoon characters, particularly with later Disney characters, but also with non-Disney characters such as Bugs Bunny , Woody Woodpecker , Mighty Mouse , and Mario.

Mickey's eyes, as drawn in Plane Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho , were large and white with black outlines.

In Steamboat Willie , the bottom portion of the black outlines was removed, although the upper edges still contrasted with his head. Mickey's eyes were later re-imagined as only consisting of the small black dots which were originally his pupils, while what were the upper edges of his eyes became a hairline. This is evident only when Mickey blinks. Fred Moore later redesigned the eyes to be small white eyes with pupils and gave his face a Caucasian skin tone instead of plain white.

This new Mickey first appeared in on the cover of a party program, and in animation the following year with the release of The Pointer. Some of Mickey's early appearance, particularly the gloves, and facial characteristics, evolved from blackface caricatures used in minstrel shows. Besides Mickey's gloves and shoes, he typically wears only a pair of shorts with two large buttons in the front.

Before Mickey was seen regularly in color animation, Mickey's shorts were either red or a dull blue-green. With the advent of Mickey's color films, the shorts were always red. Disney had Ub Iwerks secretly begin animating a new cartoon while still under contract with Universal. The cartoon was co-directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. Iwerks was the main animator for the short and reportedly spent six weeks working on it. In fact, Iwerks was the main animator for every Disney short released in and Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising also assisted Disney during those years.

They had already signed their contracts with Charles Mintz, but he was still in the process of forming his new studio and so for the time being they were still employed by Disney. This short would be the last they animated under this somewhat awkward situation. Mickey was first seen in a test screening of the cartoon short Plane Crazy , on May 15, , but it failed to impress the audience and, to add insult to injury, Walt could not find a distributor. Though understandably disappointed, Walt went on to produce a second Mickey short, The Gallopin' Gaucho , which was also not released for lack of a distributor.

Steamboat Willie was first released on November 18, , in New York. It was co-directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. Although it was the third Mickey cartoon produced, it was the first to find a distributor, and thus is considered by The Disney Company as Mickey's debut. Willie featured changes to Mickey's appearance in particular, simplifying his eyes to large dots that established his look for later cartoons and in numerous Walt Disney films. The cartoon was not the first cartoon to feature a soundtrack connected to the action. Fleischer Studios , headed by brothers Dave and Max Fleischer , had already released a number of sound cartoons using the DeForest system in the mids.

However, these cartoons did not keep the sound synchronized throughout the film. For Willie , Disney had the sound recorded with a click track that kept the musicians on the beat. This precise timing is apparent during the "Turkey in the Straw" sequence when Mickey's actions exactly match the accompanying instruments. Animation historians have long debated who had served as the composer for the film's original music.

This role has been variously attributed to Wilfred Jackson, Carl Stalling and Bert Lewis, but identification remains uncertain. Walt Disney himself was voice actor for both Mickey and Minnie and would remain the source of Mickey's voice through for theatrical cartoons. Audiences at the time of Steamboat Willie' s release were reportedly impressed by the use of sound for comedic purposes. Sound films or "talkies" were still considered innovative.

The first feature-length movie with dialogue sequences, The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson , was released on October 6, Within a year of its success, most United States movie theaters had installed sound film equipment. Walt Disney apparently intended to take advantage of this new trend and, arguably, managed to succeed. Most other cartoon studios were still producing silent products and so were unable to effectively act as competition to Disney.

As a result, Mickey would soon become the most prominent animated character of the time. Walt Disney soon worked on adding sound to both Plane Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho which had originally been silent releases and their new release added to Mickey's success and popularity. A fourth Mickey short, The Barn Dance , was also put into production; however, Mickey does not actually speak until The Karnival Kid in when his first spoken words were "Hot dogs, Hot dogs!

By , Felix would lose popularity among theater audiences, and Pat Sullivan decided to produce all future Felix cartoons in sound as a result. In Mickey's early films he was often characterized not as a hero, but as an ineffective young suitor to Minnie Mouse. The Opry House March 28, was the first time in which Mickey wore his white gloves. Mickey wears them in almost all of his subsequent appearances and many other characters followed suit. The three lines on the back of Mickey's gloves represent darts in the gloves' fabric extending from between the digits of the hand, typical of glove design of the era.

Although Mickey and Minnie still maintained their anthropomorphic characteristics, they were depicted as the size of regular mice and living with a community many other mice as pests in a home. Mickey and Minnie would later appear the size of regular humans in their own setting. In appearances with real humans, Mickey has been shown to be about two to three feet high. The Barnyard Battle April 25, was the only film to depict Mickey as a soldier and also the first to place him in combat.

The Karnival Kid was the first time Mickey spoke. Before this he had only whistled, laughed, and grunted. His first words were "Hot dogs! Mickey's Follies introduced the song "Minnie's Yoo-Hoo" which would become the theme song for Mickey Mouse films for the next several years. The "Minnie's Yoo-Hoo" song sequence was also later reused with different background animation as its own special short shown only at the commencement of s theater-based Mickey Mouse Clubs. Shortly before the release of the film, Iwerks left to start his own studio, bankrolled by Disney's then-distributor Pat Powers.

Powers and Disney had a falling out over money due Disney from the distribution deal. It was in response to losing the right to distribute Disney's cartoons that Powers made the deal with Iwerks, who had long harbored a desire to head his own studio. The departure is considered a turning point in Mickey's career, as well as that of Walt Disney. Walt lost the man who served as his closest colleague and confidant since Mickey lost the man responsible for his original design and for the direction or animation of several of the shorts released till this point.

Later Disney Company reissues of the early cartoons tend to credit Walt Disney alone. Disney and his remaining staff continued the production of the Mickey series, and he was able to eventually find a number of animators to replace Iwerks. As the Great Depression progressed and Felix the Cat faded from the movie screen, Mickey's popularity would rise, and by The Mickey Mouse Club would have one million members. Despite being eclipsed by the Silly Symphonies short the Three Little Pigs in , Mickey still maintained great popularity among theater audiences too, until , when polls showed that Popeye was more popular than Mickey.

About this time, story artists at Disney were finding it increasingly difficult to write material for Mickey. As he had developed into a role model for children, they were limited in the types of gags they could make. This led to Mickey taking more of a secondary role in some of his next films allowing for more emphasis on other characters. The tempestuous duck would provide Disney with seemingly endless story ideas and would remain a recurring character in Mickey's cartoons.

Mickey first appeared animated in color in Parade of the Award Nominees in , however, the film strip was created for the 5th Academy Awards ceremony and was not released to the public. Mickey's official first color film came in with The Band Concert. The Technicolor film process was used in the film production. Here Mickey conducted the William Tell Overture , but the band is swept up by a tornado. It is said that conductor Arturo Toscanini so loved this short that, upon first seeing it, he asked the projectionist to run it again.

In , The Band Concert was voted the third-greatest cartoon of all time in a poll of animation professionals. By colorizing and partially redesigning Mickey, Walt would put Mickey back on top once again, and Mickey would reach popularity he never reached before as audiences now gave him more appeal. However, by , the more manic Donald Duck would surpass the passive Mickey, resulting in a redesign of the mouse between and that put Mickey at the peak of his popularity. Together, Mickey, Donald Duck, and Goofy would go on several adventures together.

Mickey was redesigned by animator Fred Moore which was first seen in The Pointer Instead of having solid black eyes, Mickey was given white eyes with pupils, a Caucasian skin colored face, and a pear-shaped body. In the 40's, he changed once more in The Little Whirlwind , where he used his trademark pants for the last time in decades, lost his tail, got more realistic ears that changed with perspective and a different body anatomy.

But this change would only last for a short period of time before returning to the one in " The Pointer ", with the exception of his pants. In his final theatrical cartoons in the s, he was given eyebrows, which were removed in the more recent cartoons. In Mickey appeared in his first feature-length film, Fantasia. His screen role as The Sorcerer's Apprentice , set to the symphonic poem of the same name by Paul Dukas , is perhaps the most famous segment of the film and one of Mickey's most iconic roles. The segment features no dialogue at all, only the music. The apprentice Mickey , not willing to do his chores, puts on the sorcerer's magic hat after the sorcerer goes to bed and casts a spell on a broom, which causes the broom to come to life and perform the most tiring chore—filling up a deep well using two buckets of water.

When the well eventually overflows, Mickey finds himself unable to control the broom, leading to a near-flood.

After the segment ends, Mickey is seen in silhouette shaking hands with Leopold Stokowski , who conducts all the music heard in Fantasia. Mickey has often been pictured in the red robe and blue sorcerer's hat in merchandising. It was also featured into the climax of Fantasmic! After , Mickey's popularity would decline until his re-emergence as a daily children's television personality.

The last regular installment of the Mickey Mouse film series came in with The Simple Things in which Mickey and Pluto go fishing and are pestered by a flock of seagulls. In the s, Mickey became more known for his appearances on television, particularly with The Mickey Mouse Club. This was followed up in with The Prince and the Pauper. Throughout the decades, Mickey Mouse competed with Warner Bros. Disney and Warner signed an agreement stating that each character had the same amount of screen time in the scene.

Similar to his animated inclusion into a live-action film on Roger Rabbit , Mickey made a featured cameo appearance in the television special The Muppets at Walt Disney World where he met Kermit the Frog.

The two are established in the story as having been old friends. The Muppets have otherwise spoofed and referenced Mickey over a dozen times since the s. His most recent theatrical cartoon short was 's Get a Horse! Mickey has recently been announced to star in two films. Since June 28, , Disney Channel has been airing new 3-minute Mickey Mouse shorts, with animator Paul Rudish at the helm, incorporating elements of Mickey's late twenties-early thirties look with a contemporary twist.

The program featured never-before-seen short videos and several other celebrities who wanted to share their memories about Mickey Mouse and performed some of the Disney songs to impress Mickey. A large part of Mickey's screen persona is his famously shy, falsetto voice. From onward, Mickey was voiced by Walt Disney himself, a task in which Disney took great personal pride. However, by , Disney was becoming too busy with running the studio to do regular voice work which meant he could not do Mickey's voice on a regular basis anymore.

It is also speculated that his cigarette habit had damaged his voice over the years. MacDonald voiced Mickey in the remainder of the theatrical shorts and for various television and publicity projects up until his retirement in , although Walt would reprise Mickey's voice occasionally until his passing in , such as in the introductions to the original — run of The Mickey Mouse Club TV series, the "Fourth Anniversary Show" episode of the Disneyland TV series that aired on September 11, and the Disneyland USA at Radio City Music Hall show from Stalling was the very first person to provide lines for Mickey in the short The Karnival Kid.

Clarence Nash voiced Mickey in the short The Dognapper since Walt was traveling in Europe at the time and was unavailable to record his lines for Mickey for that short. Along with Disney, J. The short film Mickey's Christmas Carol marked the theatrical debut of Wayne Allwine as Mickey Mouse, who was the official voice of Mickey from until his death in He said, 'Just remember kid, you're only filling in for the boss.

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