Drawing For Nothing

Drawing For Nothing is a free ebook dedicated to the art of unfinished and unappreciated animation.

Directed by @waxmohawk

[Drawing For Nothing @dfnbook]

Further updates and posts will now be made on our new Bluesky page! Hope to see you there.

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[Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew]

Before Pixar, there was 'The Works,' an unfinished '70s CG feature produced at the New York Institute of Technology by a who's-who of pioneers in the field, including Pixar founders Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith.
https://t.co/RRRg2ZyeUN

[Drawing For Nothing @dfnbook]

Character exploration by Rune Brandt Bennicke for Dreamworks' Me and My Shadow

[polochka🕊 @polochka_art]

cool girls 😎

[Drawing For Nothing @dfnbook]

@TheMediaMines You'll have to wait and see!

[Drawing For Nothing @dfnbook]

Finally back to work on a new update. Here's a small preview.

[Drawing For Nothing @dfnbook]

This has gotten popular for some reason and I'd like to clarify that the creator of the little dancing creature isn't entirely known and could have been made by Lance WIlliams instead. Also, a documentary about the lab this was created in is currently being made!

[Drawing For Nothing @dfnbook]

A computer model created by Pixar co-creator Alvy Smith at the New York Institute of Technology in 1979

[Drawing For Nothing @dfnbook]

Would love to see @WSJ 's complete interview with Docter. Not sure how that quote actually relates to cutting out a character's sexuality.

[Variety @Variety]

Pete Docter, chief creative officer at Pixar and director of “Monsters Inc.,” “Up” and “Inside Out,” gives his reasoning on why the studio cut the LGBTQ storyline from 2025's "Elio":

“We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy.”
https://t.co/0TNb1CBpRy

[Animation Obsessive @ani_obsessive]

How the character designs developed for Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (2004–2009), created by Craig McCracken, Cartoon Network Studios

[Drawing For Nothing @dfnbook]

It's been over a year, but two new chapters have been released! Take a look into American Dog, the earlier, way weirder version of Bolt and Cat Tale, the failed dream of promising animation studio Imagi. As always, you can read the book for free on our website.

[Tubi @Tubi]

my cartoon era starts march 1 🙂‍↕️

Abbott & Costello Cartoons
Addams Family (1974)
Adventures of Batman, The
Animaniacs
Aquaman
Astro and the Space Mutts
Atom Ant
Baby Looney Tunes
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Be Cool Scooby-Doo!
Beetlejuice
Ben 10 (2005)
Beware the Batman
Captain Caveman
Captain Caveman & The Teen Angels
Captain Planet
Codename: Kids Next Door
Courage The Cowardly Dog
Cow & Chicken
Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines
Dexter's Laboratory
Dorothy & the Wizard of Oz
Dragon's Lair
Duck Dodgers
Dukes of Hazzard: The Animated Series
Dumb & Dumber (Animated Series)
Dynomutt, Dog Wonder
Ed, Edd 'n Eddy
Evil Con Carne
Flintstone Family Adventures
Flintstone Kids
Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends
Freakazoid!
Great Grape Ape
Help, It's the Hair Bear Bunch
Hong Kong Phooey
Jonny Quest
Justice League
Justice League Action
Krypto the Superdog
Legion of Super Heroes
Loonatics Unleashed
Looney Tunes 3D Shorts
Looney Tunes Cartoons
MAD
Magilla Gorilla
Mucha Lucha!
New Looney Tunes Show (aka Wabbit)
New Scooby Doo Mysteries
Paddington Bear
Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm
Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Pinky and the Brain
Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain
Powerpuff Girls
Pup Named Scooby Doo
Quick Draw McGraw
Ricochet Rabbit
Scooby and Scrappy Doo
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue
Smurfs
Snagglepuss
Static Shock!
Super Friends
Supernatural: The Anime Series
Taz-Mania
Teen Titans
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo
The Batman
The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley
The Frankenstones
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
The Heathcliff and Dingbat Show
The Mask (Animated Series)
The New Adventures of Batman
The New Adventures of Gilligan
The New Fred and Barney Show
The New Scooby Doo Movies
The Plastic Man Comedy Adventure Show
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
The Secret Squirrel Show
The Super Globetrotters
The Yogi Bear Show
Tiny Toon Adventures
Tom & Jerry
Tom & Jerry Comedy Show
Tom & Jerry Kids
Tom & Jerry Show, The
Tom & Jerry Tales
Top Cat
Unikitty
Wacky Races
Wacky Races (2017)
Xiaolin Showdown
Yo! Yogi
Yogi's Galaxy Goof-Ups
Yogi's Gang
Yogi's Space Race
Yogi's Treasure Hunt

[Drawing For Nothing @dfnbook]

@AlexJohnMcGillv originally Lance Williams before it transitioned to Renee Daalder

[Drawing For Nothing @dfnbook]

Very late update on this: A colleague did acquire this and the entire contents will be shared... eventually. There's a lot.

[Drawing For Nothing @dfnbook]

Theres a stack of storyboards and production documents on a canceled animated feature using Beatles music covered by Cyndi Lauper and Michael Jackson called Strawberry Fields for sale. Anyone got $2,000?
https://t.co/8YU7aCOnRx

[Drawing For Nothing @dfnbook]

@LarrikinsFan123 @Maximosalazar02 Thanks! These may end up in the next update, we'll see

[Drawing For Nothing @dfnbook]

The screenplay to the infamous unproduced reboot of The Incredible Mr. Limpet, originally meant to star Jim Carrey, has appeared online thanks to @Maximosalazar02 https://t.co/kQM0jGjLtG

[Officialzpd @officialzpd]

@blameitonjorge Today, while I was at the thrift store, I found a workprint with the movie Hoodwinked!, featuring the original voice cast. Fun! #Hoodwinked #lostmedia #lostmedia2026

[Drawing For Nothing @dfnbook]

DFN now (finally!) has a newsletter! For those who want updates directly through email, sign up!
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@DenisePage62589 Nice! But I am the same person! This is Ziggy! Lol.

[Ralph Bakshi @ralphbakshi]

The Cigarette and the Weed!

[Drawing For Nothing @dfnbook]

@FLinklater86340 The other photos I have of Melton's sculptures are in the book.

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Maquettes sculpted by Kent Melton for Disney's Wild Life