Category: Cartooning
What’s for Dessert?
A Cuphead chaser? Why not!
And of course you’ll want to hear the complete soundtrack.
By the way, somewhere in transit Amazon lost my copy of the “Art of Cuphead” book. I’m waiting for the refund to come through before making another attempt at ordering it.
DLC – Doug Loves Cuphead
If I keep posting about Cuphead this way, I’ll have to give him his own category. The “Delicious Last Course” title seemed curious to me, so I asked an expert, “Why DLC?” The answer is it’s stating exactly what the long-delayed game addendum will be — Downloadable Content.
Until the Netflix series premieres, here is the closest thing available to a Cuphead cartoon that’s independent of the gameplay. It starts with the first thing every new animator must master, a walk cycle.
Follow-up: Netflix has a preview of the cartoon series. It looks… okay… but it completely lacks the quirky charm of the work done by the original team. I’ve been told the animation shows the influence of the CalArts School of Film/Video.
It’s the Great Tobor, Charlie Brown
It was a Charlie Brown Christmas with a sci-fi twist last month. Vincent’s guest on the “Creature Features” YouTube channel was Benjamin Clark, curator of the Charles M. Schulz Museum.
His Cuphead Runneth Over
Did you really think I meant it when I said there wouldn’t be another Cuphead post?
Cuphead is returning for an encore with his pal Mugman, and his new girlfriend, named Chalice. A Netflix series is also in the works.
The “USS Timberg” in the video is a reference to Sammy Timberg, who composed music for many Fleischer cartoons.
A Cuphead of Oil
Okay, maybe one more item that’s sort of related to Cuphead. It’s a beautifully animated Shell Oil commercial from 1940 that was shown in movie theaters. This could easily be turned into a Cuphead battle.