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The Visual World of 'Samurai Jack'
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Tartakovsky compared the look “to old ‘50s Disney, like Sleeping Beauty, and to the Golden Books.” The main reference for it was Toei Doga’s Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon, which he’d seen on LaserDisc in the ‘90s. Scott Wills worked long hours to bridge these communication gaps — scanning and correcting key artwork to guide the painters. “We realized that we didn’t have the time or money to produce animation that you might see in a classic Warner Brothers short or a Disney feature,” Craig McCracken once said, “so we decided to design shows to work within the limitations that we were under.”
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