"Crusty The Cat" Concept Artwork (1976)

The ***"Crusty The Cat" Concept Artwork*** was created in 1976 by Robert Flemate for concept and copyright purposes.

## History

The Crusty The Cat concept art was created by Atari Artist Robert Flemate as concept art for the newly proposed Crusty The Cat character. The concept art puts forward 5 drawings of the character, 2 head designs, and 3 overall designs. In the writing of Flemate on the first piece of concept art,

> Tall, skinny posture, wearing an old baseball jersey and cap. Whiskers drooping. Typical Crusty stance: dejection, an expression of 'nothing ever goes right,' waiting for his next crises to occur. This creature of misfortune has the word 'swingers' for his team's name, the complete opposite of what his lot really is - misfortune!
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His thought of the depressed look would be put forward to the right of the paragraph, where he is displayed as a depressed cat drooping forward with a look of sadness in his facial expressions. Overall, the concept art displays a resemblance to the Version 2 Crusty The Cat animatronic, except much like the Version 1 Crusty The Cat Animatronic, the "Swingers 13" hat is lacking.

As of October 2023, Travis Schafer of ShowbizPizza.com now owns the concept artwork via the purchase of the Version 2 Crusty The Cat Animatronic, where it has been properly documented and scanned on 8/10/17 and is now accessible via a .pdf on the website. It is currently displayed in 2 frames, one for each paper. The first page of concept artwork is seemingly untouched outside of minor aging, but the second page seems to have been water damaged.

### Crusty for President 2012

In 2012, ShowbizPizza.com started a parody of the 2012 United States Presidential Election, except pushing that Crusty The Cat should be president. As a part of this campaign, CafePress sold and distributed merchandise items on the behalf of ShowbizPizza.com, which would feature T-Shirts, Pins, Mugs, and many other miscellaneous items featuring Robert Flemates concept artwork of Crusty The Cat, which included a cropped version of the artwork seen on the first piece of concept artwork.

## Pages

### Page 1

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Basic Construction: Fiberglass
Fur Color: Black with white face, pink nose.
Inside of Ears: Pink, black hair projecting out of ears.
Black whiskers, white beard.
Eyes: Oval shape with round green pupils:
Eyelids: possibility of employing flashing lights behind eyes to create added impact, expression of eyes should be that of apprehension, almost fearful, eyebrows, sap.
Mouth to be animated with vertical &, lateral movement as employed by BigC
Costume. An old beat up baseball cap with oversize bill and the number 13 on it, since Crusty is to be Big C's foil. All the bad luck will be coming his way, hence the black color and the No. 13.
Note: See the full length sketch for rest of costume.

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### Page 2

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Tall, skinny posture, wearing an old baseball jersey and cap. Whiskers drooping. Typical Crusty stance: dejection, an expression of 'nothing ever goes right,' waiting for his next crises to occur. This creature of misfortune has the word 'swingers' for his team's name, the complete opposite of what his lot really is - misfortune!

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## Gallery

Framed on a wall in Travis Schafer's collection.DittoDitto, closeupUp close.In a binder.
## Cited Sources

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 ptt\_crustyartwork.pdf (showbizpizza.com)
2. ↑ Crusty the Cat - Chuck E. Cheese's Characters (showbizpizza.com)
3. ↑ Image - Crustyversion1.png | Animatronic Central Wiki | Fandom
4. ↑ Image - Crustyversion2.jpg | Animatronic Central Wiki | Fandom
5. ↑ https://youtu.be/QGUTR9XMAME?si=oHVAUZYwF2z7ey8q
6. ↑ Crusty for President - SP.com Special Events (showbizpizza.com)
7. ↑ CRUSTY THE CAT 2012 CAMPAIGN (cafepress.com)