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

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==Update==
==Update==
An LMW user by the name of YoshiKiller2S uploaded a Johnny Bravo Documentary that contains footage of  ''Mess O' Blues'', and uploaded four animation cels as well.
LMW user YoshiKiller2S uploaded the Johnny Bravo Documentary that contains footage of  ''Mess O' Blues'', and uploaded four animation cels from the short as well.
{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU2ZmCnHV9w&feature=youtu.be|320x240|center|a part of the Documentary.|frame}}
{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU2ZmCnHV9w&feature=youtu.be|320x240|center|The full Documentary.|frame}}


==Gallery==
==Gallery==

Revision as of 14:50, 8 April 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.

The short 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.

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.

Update

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

The full Documentary.

Gallery

See also