Update at Warner Bros. Animation

There you go, Warner Bros. Animation. Do what you can that will take us back to the golden age where cartoon stars like Bugs Bunny became icons.
 
Well, it'll be interesting to see what design they settle for on Laff Riot. Personally, I'll watch it once it premieres.

Also, at the end of the post, it's nice to see that most of the cubicles are filled. Hooray for employment!
 
its got a lot to live up to, but ill definitely check out laff riot when it airs. i also want to see some of those shorts with older characters.
 
Warner Bro's has some of the most iconic and amazing characters in the history of animation, it's a shame that the classic Looney Tunes characters that I grew up with are all but retired, I miss them so damn much (see my sig). I wish the WB would maybe go to the drawing board and make some new characters that would lead a new generation of animation fans, but if they could find away to make new stories based on their classic characters then I would be all about that too.
 
So it looks like Laff Riot is going to stay true to classic Looney Tunes, which is great.

New Looney Tunes shorts!? Yes please. :)
 
What happened to all those Larry Doyle Looney Tunes shorts that were canceled back after Back in Action bombed? Surely, some of them had to have been completed or nearly finished. There were quite a lot of them in production, almost 40.
 
6 were completed. I think one was released on a DVD while the rest have been shown on international Cartoon Networks. All reports say they're horrible.
 
WBA sure is busy these days.

I'm just glad they're working on other projects besides Batman. Hopefully, Laff Riot lives up to its roots and goes smoother than its predecessor.
 
They were written by sitcom writers, the animation was outsourced to Korea, and everyone on staff had credits that included shows like "Family Guy" and "Beavis and Butt-Head". For a project that was supposed to feel like the original theatrical Looney Tunes cartoons, I don't see how that formula could have produced a result that was anything but horrible.

Everybody loves the Looney Tunes, but how many people really understand them? We all know they're funny, but which of us really know why they're funny? Let me put it this way - my mother is a big Looney Tunes fan. She grew up watching the cartoons on TV, and then got a healthy dose of them again while I was watching them as a kid. But the extent of her knowledge of the cartoons is basically the occasional quote of "Hello my baby" and "Kill the wabbit". She has no idea who Chuck Jones or Friz Freleng or Bob McKimson or Tex Avery or Bob Clampett or Frank Tashlin were, and is unable to distinguish between their directorial styles. She doesn't even know the individual shorts' names - her favorite cartoon is "Hillbilly Hare", but she refers to it as "the one with the square dance". Heck, she doesn't even know when the cartoons were made - I asked her once which era of the Looney Tunes she prefers, and she said "I guess the ones from the '60s or '70s, like the Barber of Seville one." ("Rabbit of Seville" was released in 1950.) She loves the Looney Tunes, but she's about the last person I'd want working on any new Looney Tunes projects.

You can be the biggest Looney Tunes fan in the world, but if you're actually making a new cartoon with the classic characters and the only thing you remember about the Looney Tunes was explosions and falling anvils, your cartoon is doomed to failure. It's not enough to just be a casual fan. One must study the classic shorts extensively and know characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck inside and out before one can work with them. You need to study the timing, the structure, the pacing, all the subtle things that aren't immediately noticeable to the average Saturday morning viewer. Greg Ford and Terry Lennon understood this; Larry Doyle did not. Let's hope this show's staff fares better than he did.
 
This really applies to any fandom. Really. Not just Looney Tunes. Every series out there has its secrets and techniques of its own, so getting casual fans to write ANYTHING is a bad idea no matter the case.

And geez, the Larry Doyle shorts weren't that bad. The Foghorn Leghorn short sucked, but the others were kinda fun. I wouldn't say they're as bad as, say, the worst shorts done during the original run.
 
Well, one short I did like that wasn't related to LT:BIA was Daffy Duck for President. While educational, it was kind of hilarious.
 
Not all the Larry Doyle cartoons were by sitcom writers, there was also acclaimed comic book creator Kyle Baker, Mr. Lawrence of Rocko and SpongeBob, and Taz~Mania vet Bill Kopp (whose credits go back to the 80's comedy cult classics "Better Off Dead" and "One Crazy Summer").
 
Even though we've been burned by LT revivals before, I have high hopes for this new series. I think the fact that they've tried different character designs is a good sign; it shows they've experimented, not just grabbed a pre-existing design and said, "Here, now nobody deviate from it in any way!" It would be even cooler if certain cartoons carried different designs, to give them some individuality while still looking like Looney Tunes. It would also harken back to the way things were, when each unit had a different style.

I'm more interested in who will be providing the music, though. They need someone who knows the Stalling/Franklyn style in and out. Please don't bring Walter Murphy back. He did some OK bits in the Doyle shorts (as I've said before, I especially enjoyed his climax in "Museum Scream" where he timed Strauss's "Thunder and Lightning Polka" to the on-screen action), but it sounded too much like Family Guy at times, and not enough like Looney Tunes.
 
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