Model Sheets from the then new 'The Beany and Cecil Show'

Rough size mock up of Dishonest John, Uncle Captain and Beany Boy. Looks like a John Kricfalusi creator of 'Ren and Stimpy' but could be Don Shank. These were made 21 years ago in 1989.
The line work on Cecil model is smooth. Looks like a brush but I don't really know. The Cecil on the right to me looks like it's from the original 1960's television show. He's drawn as if it was supposed to a puppet not a cartoon. The one on the left is doing what you can only do in animation . . . squash and stretch.

These were made 21 years ago in 1989.

The first things my eyes went to were the angled on the buttons of the pants. They go right along with the form of the body. The hands here are very expressive and clear. In the drawing above you clearly see the backside of the right hand and the inner palm on the left.

Note the characters cuffs on wrist and ankles always favored to one side. You don't see the inside on both sides. .This detail is important in animation so the extremes "read" well and the shapes are simple. Although these characters are drawn in a 'cartoon style' they have all the "elements" that real -life has. Perspective on forms, emotions, over lapping shapes and spirit.

OLD HAG - "Snow White an the Seven Dwarfs""

Ok I finally found a animation store / museum with vintage animation as good as Van Eaton Galleries. They've got everybody and unlike most everyone one else, they don't have seri-cels as their main sale.

"Alice in Wonderland"

I can not get over the color and detail in this background. One of my most favorite in strange scenes, as the Caterpillar is trying get up, it's back feet are having trouble with the huge leaf it's on. "Alice in Wonderland" (1951).

Marv Newland: International Rocketship

I founds these animation cels online for sale from Marv Newland films from the 1980's. His films are very colorful and have the spirit of animation like the early days of animation. "Sing Beast Sing" was a seen in the Spike and Mike Sick and Twisted Animation festival in the 1980's.
Finding cels like these fro me are like hoping to catch a big fish over many months!

This cel is from the film "Anijam" (1984) and this particuar sequence was animated by Sally Cruikshank (no relation to Don Shank another top animator). She did the weirdest animation I'd ever seen. She is not afraid to take animation to places like the world of early Betty Boop and Koko the Clown. Her sequence from "Twilight Zone the Movie" has creatures stretching in the most bizarro-toon style this side of Never-Never Wonderland.

DISNEY "GREAT AMERICAN INK" AND "VAN EATON GALLERIES"
Mowgli and Baloo Bear from "Jungle Book" (1967). The background has low contrast here. The characters read in silhouette as Baloo is getting a back rub during the song "Bare Necessities" written by the Sherman Brothers. This song was a big hit and is still heard today.

Here is the link to the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcglnY_xGfc&NR=1

Medusa from "The Rescuers" (1977) Milt Kahl animated this villain. This character was one of the last in the great Disney Villains animated by the last of the nine old men. Here Medusa is talking to her partner, Snoops who is working with an Orpan, a little girl named Penny to get "the Devil's Eye", a diamond that is stuck in an underground cavern.

Van Eaton Galleries $400

Brer Fox and Brer Bear from "Song of the South" (1940). Great extreme drawing. Brer Bear really wants to see Brer Rabbit's the laughing place and is expressing it here to the doubtful fox. This may also be Milt Kahl. It's a clean up drawing in pencil, the inkers could trace these drawings on to cells and then paint the colors on back.

I believe the voice acting on the soundtrack inspires the animator to make the visuals exciting and believable.