In 2010, Oswald was back on television screens in Epic Mickey as a silent partner in Mickey's adventures. SEE ALSO: 10 Out of This World Star. Oswald also, for the first time, gets a voice in 'Epic Mickey 2.' Famed voice actor Frank Welker, who did the voice of Fred in the Scooby-Doo.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit as depicted after his acquisition by.First appearanceSeptember 5, 1927Created byVoiced by(1929)(1930–1931)(1931)(1932–1938)Various (1932–1938)(1935)(1943–1947)(1952)(1957)(1957)(2010–present)Relatives/Sadie (girlfriend; wife in some depictions)Fanny (ex-girlfriend)The Bunny Children (children)(brother, same creator really related)Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (also known as Oswald the Rabbit or Oswald Rabbit) is an rabbit created by and for. He starred in several animated short films released to theaters from 1927 to 1938.

A total of 27 animated Oswald one-reelers were produced at the. When the Disney studio was removed from the Oswald series and several of its animators departed to Winkler, Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks created.In 2003, pitched a concept for an Oswald-themed video game to Disney President and COO, who then became committed to acquiring the rights to Oswald. In 2006, managed to acquire the intellectual property of Oswald and the catalog of Disney-produced Oswald films (with effectively Oswald for the services of as play-by-play announcer on ).Oswald returned to prominence in Disney's 2010 video game,. The game's plot parallels Oswald's real-world history, dealing with the character's feelings of abandonment by Disney, and envy towards Mickey Mouse.

He has since appeared in and, as well as two follow-up games,. Oswald made his first appearance in a Disney animated production in 85 years through his cameo appearance in the 2013 animated short. He was the subject of the 2015 feature film. Oswald also appears as a townsperson in. Contents.Characteristics While under Disney's creative control, Oswald was one of the first cartoon characters that had personality. As outlined by Walt himself: 'Hereafter we will aim to make Oswald a younger character, peppy, alert, saucy and venturesome, keeping him also neat and trim.' With Oswald, Disney began to explore the concept of 'personality animation', in which cartoon characters were defined as individuals through their movements, mannerisms and acting, instead of simply through their design.

Around this period, Disney had expressed, 'I want the characters to be somebody. I don't want them just to be a drawing.' Not only were gags used, but his humor differed in terms of what he used to make people laugh. He presented, used situations to his advantage, presented situational humor in general and frustration comedy best shown in the cartoon.

He would make use of animal limbs to solve problems and even use his own limbs as props and gags. He could be squished as if he was made of rubber and could turn anything into tools. His distinct personality was inspired by for his courageous and adventurous attitude as seen in the cartoon short.In regards to Oswald's personality, Disney historian describes the difference between Mickey and Oswald:“Imagine Mickey if he were a little more egotistical or fallible, or imagine Bugs Bunny if he talked the talk but wasn't as good at walking the walk.”In order to make his Oswald cartoons look 'real', Disney turned away from the styles of, and and began emulating the camera angles, effects and editing of live-action films.

To learn how to base gags on personality and how to build comic routines, rather than heaping one gag after another, he studied,. In order to stir emotion in an audience, Disney studied and scrutinized the shadow effects, cross-cutting and staging of action in films featuring Douglas Fairbanks and.Walt Disney did not want for Oswald to simply be 'a rabbit character animated and shown in the same light as the commonly known cat characters', as well as merely just a peg for gags. Instead, his stated intention was 'to make Oswald peculiarly and typically OSWALD.'

History Creation under Disney. Poster of Trolley Troubles, the second Oswald short filmIn 1927, because of cost and technical restrictions, Disney and his chief animator decided to end their work on the series in search of new creative opportunities.

Coincidentally, wanted to get into the cartoon business and needed a cartoon character of its own. So Disney's distributor Charles Mintz told Disney and Iwerks to create a new character they could sell to Universal.

Wanting to make cartoons with an all-animated look, Disney signed a contract with Universal Studios leading to the creation of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Universal's first cartoon series. Work on both the character and series began soon after Disney moved his studio to Hyperion Avenue.Disney chose to make the character a rabbit since there were already two popular animated cats at the time,. Universal was given the right to name the rabbit and it selected a name out of a hat.The first Oswald cartoon, Poor Papa, was rejected by the Universal studio heads for its poor production quality and the sloppiness and age of Oswald. Disney, together with Iwerks, decided to create a second cartoon titled featuring a much younger, neater Oswald.

The short, released on September 5, 1927, officially launched the series and proved to be Disney's greatest success to date. The storyline for Poor Papa was reused in a Mickey Mouse short five years later, in Mickey's Nightmare, 1932. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit became Disney's first major hit in 1927, rivaling other popular cartoon characters, such as Felix the Cat and.The success of the Oswald series allowed the Walt Disney Studio to grow to a staff of nearly twenty. Walt's weekly salary from the series was $100 while was $65. The Disney brothers earned $500 per Oswald short and split the year-end profits, with Walt receiving 60% ($5,361), and Roy receiving 40% ($3,574).With income gained from the Oswald series, Walt and Roy purchased ten acres of land in the desert. They also invested in an oil-drilling venture.

Iwerks also invested his income in several stone mills to crush paint pigment he used to make paint formulas that were utilized by animators for decades.As time passed, Disney feared that Mintz would forgo renewal of the contract, partly due to Iwerks informing Disney that George Winkler, at the behest of Mintz, had been going behind Disney's back during pick-up runs for Oswald reels and hiring away his animators. Eventually, Walt traveled with his wife to New York to find other potential distributors for his studio's cartoons, including Fox and MGM, prior to meetings with Mintz. As Walt later recalled, he placed two Oswald prints under one arm and—feeling 'like a hick'—marched 'one half-block north' on Broadway to MGM to visit.

During this period, Walt and Lillian attended the premier of the Oswald short Rival Romeos, which debuted at the Colony on 53rd and Broadway.In the spring of 1928, Disney traveled to New York City in hopes of negotiating a more profitable contract with his producer Charles Mintz. But as economic problems were apparent at the time, Mintz figured Disney should settle for a 20% cut, although large turnarounds were promised if the studio's finances showed considerable growth. While most of his fellow animators left for Mintz's studio, Disney decided to quit working on the Oswald cartoons. On his long train ride home, he came up with an idea to create another character, and retain the rights to it. He and Iwerks would go on to develop a new cartoon in secret, starring a new character which would soon become the most successful cartoon character in film history and later became the foundation of a global entertainment empire. The first cartoon to be filmed was in the summer of 1928, but it was produced as a silent and held back from release. The first Mickey Mouse film with a synchronized soundtrack, reached the screen that fall and became a major hit, eclipsing Oswald.

Plane Crazy was later given its own synchronized soundtrack and released on March 17, 1929. Universal takes direct control Mintz, meanwhile, opened his own studio consisting primarily of former Disney employees, where he continued to produce Oswald cartoons, among them the first Oswald with sound, Hen Fruit (1929). While things were going in Mintz's favor, animators asked Universal head to remove Mintz, suggesting they would be the ones to continue the Oswald series. But Laemmle denied their requests and even terminated Mintz's contract, opting to have the Oswald cartoons produced right on the Universal lot instead.Coincidentally, Disney and Mintz each produced nine cartoons the first year and 17 the next, before Oswald was taken over by others. Laemmle selected to produce the new series of Oswald shorts (the first of which was 1929's ).

Lantz consulted Disney about Oswald and he gave Lantz his blessing to continue the Oswald series as the Mickey Mouse shorts had become more successful, so the two became close friends. A version of Oswald redesigned by Walter LantzOver the next decade, Lantz produced 142 Oswald cartoons, making for a grand total of 194 films that the character starred in, spanning the work of all three producers.

After Lantz took over production in 1929, the character's look was changed to some degree over the following years: Oswald got white gloves on his hands, shoes on his feet, a shirt, a 'cuter' face with larger eyes, a bigger head, and shorter ears (pictured here). With 1935's Case of the Lost Sheep, an even more major makeover took place: the character was drawn more realistically now, with white fur rather than black, shoes are removed, plus wearing suspenders instead of a shirt and shorts. This new Oswald model was adapted directly from a non-Oswald character in another Lantz cartoon: the 'Fox and the Rabbit' (1935), released some two months earlier as the last of the early Cartune Classics series.

The redesign was done by Manuel Moreno.The cartoons containing the new, white-furred Oswald seemed to be different from their predecessors in more than one way, as the stories themselves became softer. Minor changes in the drawing style would continue, too. With Happy Scouts (1938), the second-to-last Oswald film produced, the rabbit's fur went from being all-white to a combination of white and gray.Unlike the Disney shorts, in which Oswald did not speak, Lantz's cartoons began to feature actual dialogue for Oswald, although most of the cartoons were still silent to begin with. Animator did the voice of Oswald in Cold Turkey, the first Lantz cartoon with dialogue, and the following year, who was working as an animator and gag man at the studio, started voicing Oswald. When Colvig left the studio in 1931, took over the voicing of Oswald until early in the following year.

Starting in 1932, Lantz ceased to use a regular voice actor for Oswald, and many studio staff members (including Lantz himself) would take turns in voicing the character over the years. Provided Oswald's voice in The Egg Cracker Suite, which was the final theatrical short to feature the character. She later voiced him again for an unaired radio pilot, Sally in Hollywoodland (1947).Oswald made a cameo appearance in the first animated sequence with both sound and color , a 2½-minute animated sequence of the live action movie (1930), produced by Laemmle for Universal. However, it was not until 1934 that Oswald got his own color sound cartoons in two-strip Technicolor, Toyland Premiere and Springtime Serenade. The Oswald cartoons then returned to black-and-white, except for the last one, The Egg Cracker Suite (1943), released as a part of the Swing Symphonies series.

Egg Cracker was also the only Oswald cartoon to use. Oswald's last cartoon appearance was a in (1951), also in three-strip Technicolor, which by then had become the norm in the cartoon industry. He also appeared in a 1952 theatrical commercial for the Electric Autolite Company, with his voice being provided. Career in comics. Oswald and his surrogate sons. After a few years on screen, Oswald settled to be featured in comic books. This version of the character is also designed by Manuel Moreno.Oswald made his first comic book appearance in 1935, when featured him in the series (later More Fun).

His adventures, drawn by Al Stahl, were serialized one page to an issue for the magazine's first year, after which they ceased. The original black-furred version of Oswald was featured, even though Oswald was by this time a white rabbit on screen.Oswald's second run in the comics began in 1942, when a new Oswald feature was initiated in ', this time modeled after the latest cartoon version of Oswald and influenced by the drawing style of other Lantz comic book characters at the time. Following the typical development seen in most new comics, the New Funnies stories slowly morphed the character in their own direction.At the start of the New Funnies feature, Oswald existed in a milieu reminiscent of: he was portrayed as a live, living in a forest together with other anthropomorphized toys. These included Toby Bear, Maggie Lou the wooden doll, Hi-Yah Wahoo the turtle-faced Indian, and —depicted as a mechanical doll filled with nuts and bolts (hence his 'nutty' behavior). In 1944, with the addition of writer, the stuffed animal motif was dropped, as were Maggie Lou, Woody, and Wahoo.

Oswald and Toby became flesh and blood characters living as roommates in 'Lantzville'. Initially drawn by Dan Gormley, the series was later drawn by the likes of Dan Noonan and Lloyd White.In 1948, Toby adopted two orphan rabbits for Oswald to raise. Floyd and Lloyd, 'Poppa Oswald's' new sons, stuck around; Toby was relegated to the sidelines, disappearing for good in 1953. Later stories focused on Oswald adventuring with his sons, seeking odd jobs, or simply protecting the boys from the likes of rabbit-eating Reddy Fox and (from 1961) con man Gabby Gator—a character adapted from contemporary Woody Woodpecker cartoon shorts. This era of Oswald comics typically featured the art of, known also for his Mickey Mouse work.Post-1960s, Oswald comics tended to be produced outside the United States, for example in and Italy. Through the end of the 20th century, the foreign comics carried on the look and story style of the Dell Oswald stories.

More recently, they featured a 'retro' attempt at recreating the original Disney Oswald.In 2010, Oswald starred in the digi-comic series Epic Mickey: Tales of the Wasteland, a prequel to the Epic Mickey video game, sharing what the Wasteland was like before Mickey arrived there.In 2011, Oswald starred in the Norwegian Disney comic story 'En magisk jul!' , written by and drawn by Mark Kausler. It is based on and takes place in the times of the classic Oswald shorts from 1927–28. The story was later reprinted, as 'Just Like Magic!'

, in the American Disney comic Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #726 (2015).Disney acquires Oswald Trademark: The Al Michaels trade. Marked the first appearance of Oswald as a, alongside.In 1995, Oswald briefly appeared in, a video game released for the and the in Brazil only.Oswald is one of the main characters in the video game franchise. The world of Epic Mickey is called 'Wasteland' and it is similar to but for 'forgotten' Disney characters, including Oswald, who rules the place. Actually, Oswald fashioned it after Disneyland, but he put images of himself in the place of Mickey in the statue with Walt Disney and other places throughout the town.

Oswald was the first cartoon character to be 'forgotten' and inhabit Wasteland. Oswald dislikes Mickey for stealing his popularity that he felt he deserved. Oswald tries to make Wasteland a better place for forgotten characters, especially his 'bunny children' and his wife Ortensia.is a video game that was released on November 18, 2012. Unlike the previous game, Epic Mickey 2 features full voiced cut-scenes with (Welker had also provided Oswald's vocal effects in the previous game) as Oswald's first voice actor in a Disney's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit production ( was Oswald's first voice actor in 1929 when Walter Lantz produced the Oswald cartoons)., creator and lead producer of the franchise, had requested for Oswald's use in, but the response from Disney was that the character would be 'too difficult' to use, with no further clarification or details from Disney. Nomura cites Oswald as one of his favorite Disney characters.

Screen comeback Oswald starred in Harem Scarem, a new 2012 cartoon created by archivist from Walt Disney's sketchbook taking dozens of drawings. He made an appearance in a 2013 throwback style Mickey Mouse cartoon,While only 19 of 26 cartoons were previously known to have survived, a couple of Oswald's lost cartoons were found in the 2010s.

In 2015, the 's National Archives were found to hold his Sleigh Bells (1927) footage. The BFI and worked to restore the short. Long-term Disney animator David Bossert wrote a book, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: The Search for the Lost Disney Cartoons which was released in 2017. A Japanese man, Yasushi Watanabe, read the book and discovered that he had a missing 1928 Oswald cartoon, Neck & Neck, since he was a teenager.At one point in July 2019, an animation writer, Christopher Painter, listed on his online resume that he was writer on multiple episodes of an Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series.

A handful of news sites circulated a story from a fan site claiming the series would be coming to, only for the resume to be removed from the writer's blog. Disney has yet to make an official comment on the rumored series.Merchandise. A collectible sculpture released by Disney featuring holding a monochrome Oswald in his handShortly after the rabbit starred in his black and white animated silent shorts between 1927 and 1928, he was successfully able to sell merchandise for Universal: a chocolate-covered marshmallow candy bar, a stencil set, and a pin-backed button. Not long before Disney acquired the rights to Oswald, Universal started marketing the character actively overseas. Disney slowly reintroduced him with merchandise such as shirts, figurines and a DVD with 13 of his original cartoons. In 2004 and 2005, Oswald products became popular in Japan, and were primarily made available as prizes in UFO catchers and as official merchandise in, where he was featured as part of the cast of characters line-up.

Typically manufactured by and/or, these products included puppets, inflatable dolls, keyrings, and watches. They were generally based on a navy-blue version with yellow shorts of the original Disney/Iwerks character, and due to Disney's popularity in Japan, he was marketed as a creation. Oswald made his first Disneyland appearance at Tokyo Disneyland on March 31, 2010 as an Easter float. At the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World, a poster of Oswald can be seen at the Town Square Theater where Mickey Mouse is available for meet and greets.

Also inside Mickey's meeting area, a doodle of Oswald and Mickey can be seen. Clothing products are also available at Disneyland Paris in Walt Disney Studios Park.

Main article: Home media. In the 1980s and 1990s, Oswald titles could still be found in 16 mm and 8 mm film catalogs.

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Contents SynopsisGood old Disney star Mickey Mouse finds himself in a big problem when he is suddenly transported to the 'Wasteland', a land inhabited by forgotten toons, forcing Mickey to join forces with its ruler, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, who resents Mickey because he was forgotten when he appeared, to return home. The two, along with the gremlin Gus and Oswald's friends, gargoyles Victor, Hugo, and Laverne, soon discovers that Mickey's appearance in the Wasteland is part of a bigger plot by the dangerous Shadow Blot to put an end to both the Wasteland and the Cartoon World.

Now, the two must find a way to work together before its too late!Voice cast. Chris Diamantopoulos as Mickey Mouse, an anthropomorphic mouse who is the biggest star in the Cartoon World, only to find himself in the Wasteland. According to director Phil Johnston, Mickey's arc in the film would be inspired by the character's lack of relevance in pop culture in comparation to earlier decades. Frank Welker as:. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, an anthrpomorphic rabbit and the deeply insecure former ruler of the Wasteland, who hates Mickey for being the reason he was forgotten in the first place. According to Welker, the film would focus more in Oswald after he was forgotten.

Djali, a goat who is Hugo's boyfriend. Bob Joles as Gus, a friendly gremlin and handyman who helps Mickey in the Wasteland. Charles Kimbrough, Jason Alexander and Patrcia Lentz as Victor, Hugo and Laverne:A trio of comical gargoyles and Oswald's friends, who live with him at the Mickeyjunk Mountain, and who always try to help Oswald with his insecurity issues. According to director Phil Johnston, the gargoyles 'go througth an arc of their own in the film. Quasimodo choose to go and live in his own a few years before the movie, and they are in a state of denial, which they show by how they treat Oswald. And througth the film, they come to terms with Quasi leaving and that Oswald is not Quasi'. James Woods as:.

The Blot, an evil creature made of both Paint and Thinner who wishes to destror both the Wasteland and the Cartoon World. Woods would define the character as 'somebody who not only lives to destroy, and not only loves it, but also someone who has a deep pasion for it, like a painter with his paint. He almost makes the act of destroying life an art'. The Shadow Blot, a disconnected fragment of the Blot who tries to release the rest of itself. Woods would describe the Shadow Blot as 'more focused and restrained' than the full Blot, as he 'wants to destroy everything he sees, but he musn't, as it dooms his plans'. Dave Wittenberg as the Mad Doctor, the Blot's main ally in his conquest to destroy the Wasteland.Additonally, Alan Tudyk would provide the vocal effects for the Blotlings, minor spawns of the Blot who serve as his army.

Tony Anselmo, Tress MacNeille, and Bill Farmer would reprise their roles from the game as animtronic versions of Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, and Goofy, respectively. Farmer would also provide the vocal effects for Pluto, Mickey's loyal dog in the Cartoon World. Grey DeLisle would voice Minnie Mouse, Mickey's girlfirend. Corey Burton would reprise his roles as Yen Sid, a powerful sorcerer and creator of the Wasteland, and Ludwig Von Drake, a brilliant-but-eccentric scientist who is the real Donald's paternal uncle.Eric Coleman would cameo as the voice of the head of Disney Television Animation in the Cartoon World. Brenda Song and Amanda Leighton would reprise their roles as Anne and Polly from the animated Disney TV series Amphibia. Tom Hanks would briefly potray Walt Disney in a live-action sequence at the start of the film, reprising his role form the film Saving Mr. Banks (2013).Differences from the source material.

The game is set around the 40's, while the film would be set in modern times. In the game, Victor, Hugo, and Laverne made a brief non-speaking cameo. In the film, they would appear in a supporting role. The game starts with a narration by Yen Sid, while the film would start with a live-action/animated sequence depicting Oswald's fall from grace. In the game, the Shadow Blot was created by Mickey after an accident in Yen Sid's workshop, while in the film he would be an accidental creation of Oswald's who was unknowingly banished by Walt Disney by trashing the only sketch in which he appeared.

The film would feature more scenes with Mickey in the Cartoon World than the game. In the game, Mickey was transported by the Blot to the Wasteland.