Disney has renewed the new animated short series of Mickey Mouse cartoons for another year. That probably makes Paul Rudish, whose vision and artistic style, can help explain the success of the series. Here Rudish shows to draw a Mickey Mouse, which draws its inspiration from the early Mickeys that Walt himself drew.
Below the jump is part of a longer animation festival interview where Rudish discusses modernizing Mickey Mouse:
Not exactly “on model” when it comes to that talk about Mickey participating in Amsterdam’s sex trade, but a lot of great information about the process Rudish used to arrive at the style of this series of shorts. A more official ‘Disney’ interview with Rudish is below