Scooby Doo backgrounds

[GarageGothic]

Came across this, thought it could be inspiring for background artists - it's a collection of 50 Scooby Doo background paintings.

http://secretfunspot.blogspot.co.uk/2007/10/50-scooby-doo-background-paintings.html

some could be straight out of adventure games:

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[Gribbler]

Some of them look like taken straight out of unreleased Monkey Island game

[Andail]

Yeah, I've seen these before. There are plenty of cartoons from this era that have remarkably good background art.

[selmiak]

cool find!
I like the creepy atmosphere in the old scooby doos.

[Stupot]

Must admit, I'd never realised how good the art actually was when I used to watch this.  Done good stuff.

[Mandle]

Absolutely beautiful stuff in there! I especially love the GO BACK sign with the skull on top!

Bookmarked the page!

[Mati256]

Great find.
In those cartoons you could see which object was animated from limes away.

[Atelier]

Scooby snacks included?

[mkennedy]

Now if we only had some Scooby Doo sprites to make an AGS game with...

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Sometimes there are strange perspective issues (like the foreground gravestone in one of the early images) but they had very talented and atmospheric background artists for the show.

[Trapezoid]

I always thought Scooby Doo reruns had a deliciously spooky vibe to them in spite of being so cheap and dated compared to the other early-90s cartoons I watched. The backgrounds were a big part of that.

"Mystery Incorporated" the newest (?) series is on Netflix, and it's actually pretty hilarious. I love its background paintings as well: http://scottcadams.com/blog/something/

[Gaucelm]

There was an actual point-and-click adventure game of Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo Mystery.



And it was on the Sega Genesis, of all consoles!

[Eric]

Sometimes there are strange perspective issues (like the foreground gravestone in one of the early images) but they had very talented and atmospheric background artists for the show.

Slightly off topic, but the comic book artist who I personally believe to be the best of all time (though it's close running with a few others), Alex Toth, did model work on the show (and for numerous other Hanna-Barbera works). His work was always lessened by animation, but his model sheets are amazing. They've just released a book of them, and I coincidentally ordered it yesterday! Here are some of Toth's Scooby Doo works:

[Ghost]

his model sheets are amazing.

Now that's some sweet char designs. Okay, H/B were often of a shoestring budget at the start of the show, but the reuse of stock animation was jarring even for 5-year-old me. Now I wonder how... man, imagine a feature film of that.
Really, imagine it.

[Adeel]

There was an actual point-and-click adventure game of Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo Mystery.
[...]
And it was on the Sega Genesis, of all consoles!

I actually remember playing this game a lot. I used to emulate Sega games back then. It was my first adventure game. I couldn't beat at that time.