Post by Clouseau on May 26, 2006 1:28:57 GMT
i shared this over at SuperheroHype not long ago, but i thought i should share it here, as well... if nothing else, i just think it's interesting...
when Blake Edwards and company decided that the movie The Pink Panther (1963) should have an animated title sequence, they hired DePatie-Freleng to create a "Pink Panther" character for the sequence... DePatie-Freleng came up with several sketches of what a "pink panther" might look like, and then the producers of the film had to decide which sketched character to go with... early posters for the film help to illustrate the evolution of the character...
in the title sequence of the film, the Pink Panther character started to look and act more like what we're used to today, but he was more closely based on a real feline... you can see this in his general body shape and in several of his movements...
the character in the title sequence, as we all know, was so popular he became the star of his own series of short cartoons... from this point on, his body shape is different, and his movements are more human... here is some of the original concept art used in developing the first short of the series, The Pink Phink...
and the rest, as they say, is cinematic history!
when Blake Edwards and company decided that the movie The Pink Panther (1963) should have an animated title sequence, they hired DePatie-Freleng to create a "Pink Panther" character for the sequence... DePatie-Freleng came up with several sketches of what a "pink panther" might look like, and then the producers of the film had to decide which sketched character to go with... early posters for the film help to illustrate the evolution of the character...
in the title sequence of the film, the Pink Panther character started to look and act more like what we're used to today, but he was more closely based on a real feline... you can see this in his general body shape and in several of his movements...
the character in the title sequence, as we all know, was so popular he became the star of his own series of short cartoons... from this point on, his body shape is different, and his movements are more human... here is some of the original concept art used in developing the first short of the series, The Pink Phink...
and the rest, as they say, is cinematic history!
