Tex Avery’s wolf cartoon is very influential for being one of the best animated short of all time. One of the best things about the short is that it features an incredible amount of detail. One of the places I noticed the immense amount of detail was in the characters animated in the short itself. It’s wonderful how their personalities are very obvious based on how they interact with one another. The wolf animates the best to me with bulging eyes, banging loud on the table, whistling, his heart beating out of his chest. Animation like that, extremes like that is good animation because it transcends language because no matter what language you speak you can understand the wolf’s motivation and his desires. The movement Itself tells the entire character’s motivation. He’s amazing at expressing emotion so much so it doesn’t seem like dialogue is needed at all.
ANIM223 - HISTORY OF ANIMATION - FALL 2019 