The Casper cartoons are very cute, without being too heavy in it, Boo Hoo Baby was one of the particularly adorable ones. Not all the writing is perfect, but there's still a good deal of pleasures to be had in particularly the early outings. Casper's main theme is suitably peppy too, and a few cartoons contain a rousing and spooky number called A Haunting We Will Go (first heard in the cartoon of the same title), a great song and should have featured more I feel.
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Winston Sharples' music scores are always outstanding (always were the best things about the Herman and Katnip series too), his music brings so much character and energy to every cartoon, he orchestrates everything beautifully and cleverly, there is always a real sense of mood and atmosphere, it's always dynamic to what's happening in the animation and action and it's very lively and whimsical. Also love how the wonderfully varied and often very funny reactions to Casper are, and the early Fleischer-style-like animation in Once Upon a Rhyme was really lovely and suited that cartoon perfectly. There are some really beautiful colours, very meticulously detailed and atmospheric backgrounds (a good deal of the early cartoons starting off appropriately spookily), smooth drawing and well drawn characters (if slightly stereotypical for the women at times).
On the other hand, as said most of the animation quality from There's Good Boos To-Night in the Casper cartoons is of very good quality.
The first cartoon The Friendly Ghost also had a muddy and yet-to-find-feet feel. Much of the animation quality in the Casper cartoons is very good, even great, but generally Famous Studios' budgets were getting smaller and smaller by the mid to late 50s, giving the cartoons a rushed feel (this is not just for Casper, this was true for much of their output) with sparser backgrounds, far less smooth drawing and flatter and less lavish colours. The dialogue tends to lay it on a bit too thick on the twee sentimentality and the sugar, Casper's moping is likely to annoy some who don't want to see it all the time. The Casper cartoons admittedly were on the repetitive side, structurally there is a rather more-of-the-same feel (Casper wanting to make friends rather than scare and being shunned by the other ghosts, characters being scared at the sight of him, Casper upset, Casper making a friend, something bad happening to threaten the friendship, things ending mostly happily) occurring in a lot of them, making it easy to work what the outcomes are going to be. Not everybody is going to find them to their tastes, finding them too overly-sentimental or that they repeat things too much, but for this viewer there was still a good amount to like. Even the lesser Casper cartoons are more watchable than the lesser Herman and Katnip cartoons for instance. Invisibility is a fun characteristic of this amazing character.While the Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoons are not milestones in animation or masterpieces, as far as Famous Studios' Noveltoon cartoons go they are not that bad.
It's also fun to note that the bottom of the subject (4) is partially hidden. On the right side, it's the opposite (3). On the left side of the character (2), shadows are stronger. Several folds are visible on the bottom part of the character. In this very basic Halloween costume, holes are made into the fabric (1) so that the creature can see through. Since a ghost can have various appearances, let's study the most common one : the character covered with a piece of clothing. :) Let's study this character using a simple picture Let's proceed with the first part of this tutorial : analyzing a simple picture of a real ghost. Of course, they are mostly present in books or horror movies. Whether they are covered with a blanket or simply assuming a human silhouette, these scary creatures are very present in the popular culture. Finally, more fun ghosts are available on the bottom of this page if you want to try different characters and try various styles and designs. I will also help you analyze the character so that you can understand all you need to know about the features that need to be added to the image. You can learn to draw a cartoon ghost using simple shapes and lines using the basic lesson found on this page.