Sunday, September 26, 2010

Gadget Model Sheet (Rescue Rangers) 1988

Playing against type, the idea was to have the girl of the group be the "grease monkey". Inspiration for Gadgets hair style and costume came from a petite story-board artist at Disney TVA with blond hair and bangs who wore a lavender jumpsuit to work on occasion. Gadget turned out to be a very popular character in spite of her ghastly last name -- Hackwrench. Yikes!
In case you missed it. Monterey Jack and Zipper model sheets were in my Aug. 16th post. Check 'em out.
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25 comments:

  1. SCIBOTICSeptember 27, 2010 at 12:49 AM

    Dude, now you're just getting ridiculous with the contributions you've made to cartoons I loved. Thank you so much!

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  2. rad sechristSeptember 27, 2010 at 1:21 AM

    Seriously Toby, you draw too well...

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  3. samacleodSeptember 27, 2010 at 9:22 AM

    Insane. So awesome

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  4. Jenny LerewSeptember 27, 2010 at 10:18 AM

    These are too adorable. The one at lower right in particular looks an awful lot like her inspiration. I wouldn't believe a mouse could so accurately suggest a real girl's personality, but I guess that's the trick, isn't it?

    Kudos & more kudos!

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  5. AmySeptember 27, 2010 at 11:31 AM

    Aha, so it's YOU I have to thank!

    I'm currently working on covers for BOOM's new Rescue Rangers comic and I have these model sheets. As a former Disney animation artist myself, these are gold.

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  6. C.DebodaSeptember 27, 2010 at 4:19 PM

    Thanks for sharing these. Great stuff!

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  7. vitalik shuSeptember 27, 2010 at 9:26 PM

    I did not have enough words to you to show all my appreciation! My childhood would have been terrible without those cartoons! Thank you! great blog!

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  8. . .~*jo*~. .September 27, 2010 at 11:59 PM

    go Gadget [go]! :) hehehe :) thanks for sharing these! :)

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  9. FawnSeptember 28, 2010 at 12:11 PM

    Wow...you draw so well. And storyboards you posted are very inspiring.

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  10. UnknownSeptember 30, 2010 at 11:33 AM

    * Piously tremble *

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  11. Andre MansimOctober 3, 2010 at 5:13 PM

    Não sei se vc vai entender português, hahahaha, mas seu blog e seus desenhos são muito legais!

    tenho um blog também:
    http://amansim.blogspot.com/

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  12. Óscar SPOctober 4, 2010 at 5:04 AM

    Searching mouse face composition drawings. This model Sheet help me very much

    Thank you very much!
    (and sorry for my bad english!)

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  13. Quentin LebegueOctober 4, 2010 at 1:47 PM

    Oh my God this is too awesome. Is it really possible to draw so well ?

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  14. Jeff HarterOctober 5, 2010 at 8:23 PM

    Great blog. The structure and appeal in your drawing is fantastic. Thank you for sharing.

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  15. JerOctober 13, 2010 at 2:44 PM

    Hey there Toby.

    Nice Gadget drawings. You design characters well :D

    Question, when you designed Gadget for the Rescue Rangers, did you take inspiration from Joy of Superbook? I'm curious because I kept saying to myself that they both look alike.

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  16. Alexis Rodriguez CardosoOctober 13, 2010 at 6:14 PM

    Great work!! Please teach me!

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  17. Tiago RovidaOctober 14, 2010 at 6:44 PM

    Hey Toby, this show was one of the reasons of my choise about working with animation when I was a kid!!! I loved it! Amazing stuff like everything else!

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  18. Shane HoughtonOctober 18, 2010 at 11:43 AM

    Gadget was my first crush when growing up and I'm pretty sure it's because of your fantastic character design.

    Thanks for posting!

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  19. MayhemDecember 3, 2010 at 6:57 AM

    Just been linked to this post, as I'm a huge RR fan. I don't suppose you can remember the name of the storyboard artist in question...? Or maybe you can and don't want to embarrass her? ;)

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  20. CrashBurnMay 18, 2011 at 4:30 PM

    Oh awesome!!! Big fan of your work and a HUGE fan of CDRR. Thanks for sharing some of your early work! :D

    Yes, Gadget is totally my favorite.

    Any hope of you uploading the Chip and Dale model sheets?

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  21. Toby SheltonMay 19, 2011 at 2:40 PM

    I would post them if I had them, but alas, I don't. For whatever reason, I never kept the C&D model sheets. Sorry.

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  22. CrashBurnMay 26, 2011 at 7:16 PM

    Ah, no problems!
    We still have the multiple copied versions of those. XD Thank you for replying back! :D

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  23. bryce.schroederMay 31, 2011 at 7:59 PM

    Thanks for posting these modelsheets! Do you mind if I mirror these in the chipndaleonline.com gallery?

    Thanks again.

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  24. AnonymousMarch 23, 2013 at 5:48 PM

    Awesome work! Can you please share more Gadget sketches or some other original drawings of her? Its just strange - shes so popular character and theres only one original drawing not from cartoon itself.

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  25. UnknownMay 31, 2014 at 4:40 AM

    Hello Toby! Thanks for your exquisite masterpiece creation. It is infinitely great. I love your Gadget Hackwrench and would like someday to give her a gift for her birthday, but unfortunately, I don't know when she was born? :)

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