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I don't remember much of my childhood.
Most of it is a blur, a torrent of events and people cascading down on my head, so fast and so brief, I can't seem to get a hold of them.
But one memory stands strong in the blitz of my psyche. One sole glimmer of remembrance amongst the chaos that are my childhood memories.
A memory, chiseled in stone and mortar, clearly and nimbly making its way back to me, after all this time, all these wasted years. I still remember.
Fievel is awesome. When I was little, I always thought that he was French or something. The first and only time that I've ever seen "An American Tail", was when I was around 6. And it was dubbed in Spanish, because that's my native tongue.
As you might suspect, the VAs for the Spanish version didn't really bother to put on accurate accents on the characters that they were interpreting. So it came to me as a surprise that Fievel was actually Russian-Jewish.
I wonder if he considered Vodka to the "kosher"?
I tried something new this time, in many ways. First time I've drawn a serious child character, first time trying to include light in a drawing, and most importantly, first time drawing one of the favorite cartoon characters from my childhood.
I can honestly say that this is a dream come true.
Fievel Mousekewitz, An American Tail, and all related content © Universal Pictures and Steven Spielberg
This drawing © Me
Most of it is a blur, a torrent of events and people cascading down on my head, so fast and so brief, I can't seem to get a hold of them.
But one memory stands strong in the blitz of my psyche. One sole glimmer of remembrance amongst the chaos that are my childhood memories.
A memory, chiseled in stone and mortar, clearly and nimbly making its way back to me, after all this time, all these wasted years. I still remember.
Fievel is awesome. When I was little, I always thought that he was French or something. The first and only time that I've ever seen "An American Tail", was when I was around 6. And it was dubbed in Spanish, because that's my native tongue.
As you might suspect, the VAs for the Spanish version didn't really bother to put on accurate accents on the characters that they were interpreting. So it came to me as a surprise that Fievel was actually Russian-Jewish.
I wonder if he considered Vodka to the "kosher"?
I tried something new this time, in many ways. First time I've drawn a serious child character, first time trying to include light in a drawing, and most importantly, first time drawing one of the favorite cartoon characters from my childhood.
I can honestly say that this is a dream come true.
Fievel Mousekewitz, An American Tail, and all related content © Universal Pictures and Steven Spielberg
This drawing © Me
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Fanart
Species Mouse
Size 600 x 1120px
File Size 324.6 kB
Yeah, me too! Aside from this particular character, I remember a lot of cats, Fievel's sister whom I think I liked as much as Fievel himself back then, and a huge, orange cat. It was awesome. I need to watch that movie again.
Fievel's ratty clothes gave me a chance to really go at it with my cloth drawing skills. There's nothing like flowing clothes to really practice.
Thank you for commenting, Os!
Fievel's ratty clothes gave me a chance to really go at it with my cloth drawing skills. There's nothing like flowing clothes to really practice.
Thank you for commenting, Os!
Good ol' Fiev' in your style; that, my friends what we call a Throw-Bak!
My Grandma loved him, my brothers loved him, along with the rest of my family.
-He's just so Charming and Cute; with a dash of madd skillz to boot-
Awesome character overall; with a family that's just as Awesome as he is.
Thanks again 4 showing him off to us, Trancua; later, my friend.
This Mouse got Witz; don't mess with 'em
My Grandma loved him, my brothers loved him, along with the rest of my family.
-He's just so Charming and Cute; with a dash of madd skillz to boot-
Awesome character overall; with a family that's just as Awesome as he is.
Thanks again 4 showing him off to us, Trancua; later, my friend.
This Mouse got Witz; don't mess with 'em
Maybe the reason you thought he was French was because of the color of his clothes, red and blue, resembling the French tricolore? I've seen the French VHS cover, there they even pushed contrast so much that his face adds in the missing white.
I don't know if he'd consider himself Russian, thinking of how little he is when they're emmigrating, and even more the fact how cruel Mother Russia has been to the Mousekevitzes for being Jewish.
Anyway, your Feivel looks like quite a deviation from Bluth's original model sheets to me. First, there's the obvious eye color, I mean the Mousekevitzes were depicted kind of half-stereotypically Jewish in an affectionate way, so I guess I'd rather imagine a very dark brown, almost black, probably. Second is how much you've changed his proportions, which are key for the overwhelming cuteness of our widdle immigrant. The way you've made him look, he doesn't look 5 or 6yo in Cartoonland anymore.
I'm not calling your pic bad, after all it's a personal interpretation. Just saying how unusual and...unsettling it makes me feel about my favorite celeb furry character of all time.
I don't know if he'd consider himself Russian, thinking of how little he is when they're emmigrating, and even more the fact how cruel Mother Russia has been to the Mousekevitzes for being Jewish.
Anyway, your Feivel looks like quite a deviation from Bluth's original model sheets to me. First, there's the obvious eye color, I mean the Mousekevitzes were depicted kind of half-stereotypically Jewish in an affectionate way, so I guess I'd rather imagine a very dark brown, almost black, probably. Second is how much you've changed his proportions, which are key for the overwhelming cuteness of our widdle immigrant. The way you've made him look, he doesn't look 5 or 6yo in Cartoonland anymore.
I'm not calling your pic bad, after all it's a personal interpretation. Just saying how unusual and...unsettling it makes me feel about my favorite celeb furry character of all time.
Oh, and as for the other movies, there was this one in 1986, next was Fievel went West in 1991 where he's maybe 2 or 3 years older and the Mousekevitzes move out to the Old West, it doesn't have to do much with the overall magic of the first movie anymore as Bluth wasn't in it anymore, Spielberg was doing his own thing with that one, it's more based on comedy and action, where Feivel has gotten an older kid and now wants to be a slick, sharp-shootin' cowboy. Then followed the TV series Fievel's American Tails based upon the second movie, running for something like 2 seasons, I think, with Feivel, his family, and Tiger out in Green River as Spielberg's movie had established.
Then for a loooooooooong time, there was nothing, until in 2002 and 2003 or so, two feature-length direct-to-video specials were made based on Bluth's first movie and released with a year between them (both times it was in early December for the Christmas season over here), where Feivel is still about the same age as in the first movie and it covers the Mousekevitzes' time in New York, Tony still with them.
Again without Bluth's involvement at all, produced solely by Spielberg's TV department of Amblin Animation, and yeah, these 2 direct-to-video specials look incredibly cheap, like they were trying to make a TV series for the new generation, lacking any heart or soul both in the stories and the drawings.
I mean one of the two deals with the topic of oppressed American natives hiding underneath New York, but still, it's all pulled off so cheap and careless. Instead of looking like Bluth, it looks more like two episodes of Redwoods, or whatever this recent new mice cartoon series is called again.
Still, I'm so much of a fan I was glad enough that at least SOMETHING new was out there, and in a way these two official new videos confirmed for me that you can do with Feivel whatever you want as an author, after all I've always wanted him in mature (but definitely happy!) art ever since I've seen Bluth's movie on TV back in 1996.
Then for a loooooooooong time, there was nothing, until in 2002 and 2003 or so, two feature-length direct-to-video specials were made based on Bluth's first movie and released with a year between them (both times it was in early December for the Christmas season over here), where Feivel is still about the same age as in the first movie and it covers the Mousekevitzes' time in New York, Tony still with them.
Again without Bluth's involvement at all, produced solely by Spielberg's TV department of Amblin Animation, and yeah, these 2 direct-to-video specials look incredibly cheap, like they were trying to make a TV series for the new generation, lacking any heart or soul both in the stories and the drawings.
I mean one of the two deals with the topic of oppressed American natives hiding underneath New York, but still, it's all pulled off so cheap and careless. Instead of looking like Bluth, it looks more like two episodes of Redwoods, or whatever this recent new mice cartoon series is called again.
Still, I'm so much of a fan I was glad enough that at least SOMETHING new was out there, and in a way these two official new videos confirmed for me that you can do with Feivel whatever you want as an author, after all I've always wanted him in mature (but definitely happy!) art ever since I've seen Bluth's movie on TV back in 1996.
Actually, I believe that I thought that he was French because I was little at the time when I saw the movie, and I don't think I ever saw it again until a couple months ago. My memories from way back then are fuzzy at best. Maybe that pigeon character imprinted himself unto my memory harder than I would have liked him to.
You really like your technicalities, don't you? Loosen up, the vodka thing was supposed to be a joke. Jokes are funny.
Yeah, he's supposed to look as far off from the original model as I could get him to be. That was the idea.
Shiny blue for eye colors look cuter than brown, at least to me, and in some cases. This was one.
Again, switching him around was the idea. And don't be so cold, I'm sure this one's cute in another way, different than the cuteness of the original one.
It IS unusual, thank you. This wasn't supposed to be unsettling, though. I'm sorry if you think it was. Try to have an open mind. We're all furries here, after all. How much more open can you get?
You really like your technicalities, don't you? Loosen up, the vodka thing was supposed to be a joke. Jokes are funny.
Yeah, he's supposed to look as far off from the original model as I could get him to be. That was the idea.
Shiny blue for eye colors look cuter than brown, at least to me, and in some cases. This was one.
Again, switching him around was the idea. And don't be so cold, I'm sure this one's cute in another way, different than the cuteness of the original one.
It IS unusual, thank you. This wasn't supposed to be unsettling, though. I'm sorry if you think it was. Try to have an open mind. We're all furries here, after all. How much more open can you get?
I don't mean to say that your intention was to make this pic look unsettling, I'm just saying how it makes me feel, particularly his proportions.
The thing about Russia wasn't related to your Vodka joke (their level of religiousness is left intentionally vague, actually), it's just my initial reaction to anybody calling Feivel Russian. Yes, he was born there and also spent a few years in the place, but Mother Russia was never too kind to the Mousekevitzes because they went to the local synagogue instead of the next Orthodox church.
The thing about Russia wasn't related to your Vodka joke (their level of religiousness is left intentionally vague, actually), it's just my initial reaction to anybody calling Feivel Russian. Yes, he was born there and also spent a few years in the place, but Mother Russia was never too kind to the Mousekevitzes because they went to the local synagogue instead of the next Orthodox church.
You sure do take your cartoons seriously, huh. It's okay, we all need a hobby, I guess.
I actually said "Russian-Jewish". Because he's Jewish, and he was born in Russia. I never said one nor the other.
And I didn't even know that they went to a synagogue or whatever. It's just a cartoon.
They get attacked by evil cats wearing Cossack hats, for Christ's sake. Come on.
And what do you mean about that whole "proportions and feelings" thing? Look, if you've a problem with me or what I do, say it, buster.
I actually said "Russian-Jewish". Because he's Jewish, and he was born in Russia. I never said one nor the other.
And I didn't even know that they went to a synagogue or whatever. It's just a cartoon.
They get attacked by evil cats wearing Cossack hats, for Christ's sake. Come on.
And what do you mean about that whole "proportions and feelings" thing? Look, if you've a problem with me or what I do, say it, buster.
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