[Dr. Sivana]

I was always amazed at how the artists could convey various attributes of humans through those cartoon characters. I don’t think they make them anymore.

Not so much with Rocky and Bullwinkle. The animation was done in Mexico, and it was choppy and sloppy (Boris Badenov's moustache disappears regularly. Good cartoon, but not up to WB/Disney/Fleischer/MGM standards. The late-fifties/sixties were a pretty bad time to be a cartoon, the cheapness shows even in the movie shorts (e.g. John Doormat, Pink Panther, despite a superior soundtrack)

[odawg]

“Not so much with Rocky and Bullwinkle.”

I don’t think I ever saw that one. The article mentioned she was involved with many more cartoons. I was talking about cartoons in general when I was a kid. I would still watch them.

[moehoward]

“Not so much with Rocky and Bullwinkle. The animation was done in Mexico, and it was choppy and sloppy”

I’ll bet the keyframes were done at Jay Ward studios on Sunset BL and the in-betweens were done at Gamma in Mexico. Very common practice to storyboard and keyframe stateside, outsource the grunt-work. Ward used Limited Animation in a very effective way, missing mustaches notwithstanding. I don’t know if the mustache was on it’s own cell or not, but its a common issue where a camera operator would neglect to lay all the appropriate cells down before shooting that frame of film. And since they’d double up on the frames -12 frames rather than 24- the missing arm, leg, or occasional head was quite noticeable.

IMO there are few poorer examples of Limited Animation than the MGM (Deitch) Tom and Jerry cartoons that were produced in Czechoslovakia. WTH were they thinking... Then Chuck Jones took over, which was only slightly better. Disappointing because his Full Figure Animation work at Warners was so good.