Find and Cite Images of Animated Characters - HON250 - Animated Character Research

Image Searching

The vast majority of images of animated characters found online are copyrighted. Under Fair Use guidelines, you may use a limited number of copyrighted images for your projects and papers though. Be sure to cite them!

Google Image Search
This is probably the best way to located images of animated characters. Be sure to link to the actual website hosting the image. That is the site to use in your citation, not Google.
The Big Cartoon Dabase
This site includes images of animated characters, including from most of the major movie studios and TV networks.

Citing Images in MLA Format

MLA Formatting and Style Guide
In particular, refer to "MLA Workds Cited: Electronic Sources" and scroll down to the section about images.
Paula's General Research Guide: Citing Images in MLA 8th (Manhattanville College)
"Paula" made an excellent guide to properly citing images found online.

These are the most common citation elements, in order, for citing images of animated characters found online:

1) Illustrator/Creator if available. If not skip to #2.[Last Name, First Name]

2) Title of image in italics. If the image doesn’t have a title, create a brief descriptive title [Angry Donald Duck, Moulan Fighting].

3) Date the image was created, if available. If not, skip to #4. [2001, 25 Sept. 2014]

4) Title of website on which the image is hosted, in italics. [The Big Cartoon Database, Flickr]. Do not cite Google Images, click to the actual site from which Google found the image.

5) URL [https://nl.fanpop.com/clubs/disney-princess/images/8236465/title/moulan]

6) Access date [16 April 2020]

HON250 - Animated Character Research: Find and Cite Images of Animated Characters

Image Searching

Citing Images in MLA Format