Oswald the Lucky Rabbit his blessing to continue the Oswald series as the Mickey Mouse shorts had become more successful, so the two became close friends. Over the next decade, Lantz produced 142 Oswald cartoons, making for a grand total of 194 films that the character starred in, spanning the work of all three producers. After Lantz took over production in 1929, the character's look was changed to some degree over the following years: Oswald got white gloves on his hands, shoes on his feet, a shirt, a "cuter" face with larger eyes, a bigger head, and shorter ears (pictured right). With 1935's "Case
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit stories themselves became softer. Minor changes in the drawing style would continue, too. With "Happy Scouts" (1938), the second-to-last Oswald film produced, the rabbit's fur went from being all-white to a combination of white and gray. Unlike the Disney shorts, in which Oswald did not speak, Lantz's cartoons began to feature actual dialogue for Oswald, although most of the cartoons were still silent to begin with. Animator Bill Nolan did the voice of Oswald in "Cold Turkey", the first Lantz cartoon with dialogue, and the following year Pinto Colvig, who was working as an animator and gag man at the