Mess O' Blues (partially found prototype short of "Johnny Bravo" Cartoon Network animated series; 1993): Difference between revisions

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While working at Loyola Marymount University, Partible decided to pursue a career in animation, and so he started working on a senior thesis project called ''Mess O' Blues''.
While working at Loyola Marymount University, Partible decided to pursue a career in animation, and so he started working on a senior thesis project called ''Mess O' Blues''.


The short is about an Elvis Presley impersonator, (originally three impersonators, before it was shortened to one due to time constraints and lack of a budget), who would later become Johnny Bravo.
Partible started with the concept of 3 Elvis Presley impersonators who fought crime, however, since he was doing all of the work himself, it was cut down to 1 Elvis impersonator.
==Becoming Johnny Bravo==
==Becoming Johnny Bravo==
[[File:Johnny-Bravo-tv-01.jpg|thumb|215px|left|Johnny Bravo.]]Dan McLaughin (Partible's animation professor) showed the short to a friend working at Hanna-Barbera Productions.
[[File:Johnny-Bravo-tv-01.jpg|thumb|215px|left|Johnny Bravo.]]Dan McLaughin (Partible's animation professor) showed the short to a friend working at Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Revision as of 11:29, 18 October 2017

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Screencap from the short.

Status: Partially Found

Mess O' Blues was the original thesis short for Johnny Bravo created by Van Partible in 1993.

Origins

While working at Loyola Marymount University, Partible decided to pursue a career in animation, and so he started working on a senior thesis project called Mess O' Blues.

Partible started with the concept of 3 Elvis Presley impersonators who fought crime, however, since he was doing all of the work himself, it was cut down to 1 Elvis impersonator.

Becoming Johnny Bravo

Johnny Bravo.

Dan McLaughin (Partible's animation professor) showed the short to a friend working at Hanna-Barbera Productions.


The studio saw the short and loved it so much they asked Partible if he could do a pitch for a seven-minute short cartoon, with Mess O' Blues as the inspiration. This became the original Johnny Bravo short.

The character was changed so that, as Partible put it, " he would be more of this '50's iconic James Dean-looking character that talked like Elvis."
Other changes include his hairstyle, name, physical appearance, and personality.

This new pilot was later aired on World Premiere Toons (also known as What a Cartoon!).

Resurfacing

Despite its success, Mess O' Blues has never been released or even seen publicly, unlike the widely available and similarly made What a Cartoon predecessor The Whoopass Girls - which would later become The Powerpuff Girls.

The only footage that has ever been made available are some short, mute clips in a Johnny Bravo Documentary on the Johnny Bravo Season one DVD.

Footage

In January 2017, LMW user YoshiKiller2S uploaded the Johnny Bravo Documentary that contains footage of Mess O' Blues, and uploaded four animation cels from Mess O' Blues as well.

Part of the Documentary.

Animation cels

See also