Peanuts Allegories: Charlie Brown security blanket and acting

I saw this old Peanuts comic strip from the 1950s where Charlie Brown asks Lucy Van Pelt why Linus always carries a blanket with him even as he aged to Charlie's age.

It's rather funny because it's very allegorical to my eyes. Take a look.

As you can see, Charlie Brown feels like an idiot trying to emulate. He even said it himself. 

For sure, this comic was printed way before Linus aged up to the point Lucy gained the brass balls to pick on her little brother.

Of course, try to steal his blanket will elicit this response:

Anyway, the above comic, what allegory can I compare this too?

Acting?

Yeah. That's sounds about right. The allegory is how you look when you see yourself acting like a cartoon character in those reference footage pieces you see so many times on your DVD/Blu-Ray featurettes on your favorite Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks, and Warner Bros animated flicks.

However, I'm not going to get into the further details on my views on reference footage for feature animation as I already have a dedicated blogpost about that which I wrote way back in February 2023:

https://maverickmartinezarchive.blogspot.com/2023/02/acting-101-acting-in-animation.html

I just wanted to point out the allegory of that peanuts comic and at the same time, restrain myself from making biased comparisons to cartoon acting vs real life acting.

I still have many other Peanuts oddities than I wanna analyze but I'll have to dive deeper in the web to find those comics.

Also, this is the last post before I upgrade my custom built PC's graphics card. I got my pay, and I've saved up for the upgrade. I'll still post more on this blog but in the meantime, I just want to get familiarized with my new graphics card and render a view 3D Animations using RTX rendering on Maya before I get back on making blogposts.

Starting with this sneak peak:

I dub this sneak peak "Translation from previz to final output".

It's been something I wanted to get into but lacked the necessary images and research. I do have the research but I only have these HILDA examples. 

(I do have some images of HILDA in it's original comic book form)

Well, It may be several days before I get into this topic due to researching the topic a little more as well as my RTX GPU upgrade so stay tuned.