New Looney Tunes shorts on HBO Max

Discussion in 'Visual Arts' started by AKA, Jun 13, 2019.

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  1. AKA

    AKA Senior Member Thread Starter

    Last year, Warner Bros. promised 1,000 new minutes of Looney Tunes cartoons. Not The Looney Tunes Show, not Wabbit Tunes (or “Looney Tunes Cartoons” if you want to be technical): animator-created, storyboard-generated, delightful mayhem, like it was in the ‘30s, ‘40s and ‘50s.

    Here’s the first 90 seconds of this new campaign, “Dynamite Dance,” which stars Bugs and Elmer in their ‘40s designs. It’s as though Bob Clampett, himself, traveled through time to make a short for the age of short attention spans.

     
  2. PaulKTF

    PaulKTF Senior Member

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    Outstanding! I'm glad there will be new Looney Tunes shorts for kids to enjoy. They should put these in the theaters in front of kids' movies like the good old days.
     
  3. Strat-Mangler

    Strat-Mangler Personal Survival Daily Record-Breaker

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    How much do I have to pay to insure all 1000 minutes are done like this????
     
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  4. daca

    daca Currently on Double Secret Probation

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    Kids. Lol. I’m pretty sure the target audience is adults.

    Agreed! I want 10,000 minutes.

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  5. Strummergas

    Strummergas Senior Member

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    Yeah, the pace is almost seizure inducing. Love the look, but I hope all 1,000 aren't this neckbreak.
     
  6. Strat-Mangler

    Strat-Mangler Personal Survival Daily Record-Breaker

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    Agreed. I guess it might be to save on the animation. Instead of animating the characters clearly running in and out of frame, just flash them back at zooming speed so you don't have to animate much to convey the idea they leave and come back.

    The jokes would have much more impact at a slower pace and the ability to clearly see the characters' movements would definitely make this much more rewarding. I'd be perfectly OK with paying more for quality material. My guess is this stuff is likely sent to South Korea to be animated like The Simpsons and Family Guy anyway. It's also possible that whoever would be in charge over there wouldn't quite understand the tradition upon which WB cartoons was founded.

    I get the music piece is fast-paced but one joke doesn't even have enough time to land before another one takes place. Not trying to be critical as I'm delighted real animation is making a slight comeback but anything worth doing is worth doing right and that sample doesn't do it for me.

    NOTE : Although it doesn't fix the audio, setting the playback speed in YouTube to 0.75 or 0.5 (depending on the sequences) fixes the rhythm of some of the animated sequences to something more akin to vintage WB.
     
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  7. Linger63

    Linger63 Forum Resident

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    Gotta keep moving quick with all those explosives going off!!!!.........:laugh:
     
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  8. Dillydipper

    Dillydipper Space-Age luddite

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    Why, what would happen if your son or daughter saw that, and decided to stick dynamite in hunters' mouths...think of the children...! :cop:
     
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  9. Chris DeVoe

    Chris DeVoe RIP Vickie Mapes Williams (aka Equipoise)

    I don't think it's any faster than something like The Rabbit of Seville.

    I'm knocked out by this and I can't wait to see more.
     
  10. Chris DeVoe

    Chris DeVoe RIP Vickie Mapes Williams (aka Equipoise)

    I think it is the responsibility of every individual parent to keep lit sticks of dynamite out of out of their children's hands.

    Remember: When lit sticks of dynamite are outlawed, only outlaws will have lit sticks of dynamite.
     
  11. Chris DeVoe

    Chris DeVoe RIP Vickie Mapes Williams (aka Equipoise)

    Excellent post except you misspelled "Wobert W. Cwampett."
     
  12. Jay_Z

    Jay_Z Forum Resident

    Don't know that we are really in age of short attention spans any longer. Everyone goes down their own rabbit hole. The challenge is getting anyone's attention in the first place.

    This segment is too much Roger Rabbit. Too much frenzy. It's not funny to me. Just an incredible simulation of bygone art.

    I did prefer The Looney Tunes Show, which was an attempt to adapt the characters to a new world. Throwing in a bunch of 1940s references at this point? That world is gone. Watch the old cartoons.
     
  13. Dillydipper

    Dillydipper Space-Age luddite

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    Suddenly I'm curious as to whether the legendary Mr. Acme has ever stood on a stage at a trade convention, holding a lit stick of dynamite aloft and proclaiming:
    "THEY CAN HAVE MY LIT STICK OF DYNAMITE WHEN THEY PRY IT FROM MY BLACKENED, DEAD FINGERS!" :cussing: "...which will probably be somewhere over there..."
     
  14. Strat-Mangler

    Strat-Mangler Personal Survival Daily Record-Breaker

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    Huh? I'm guessing you're misremembering because there's a huge difference in pacing. Immense, even!
     
  15. keefer1970

    keefer1970 Metal, Movies, Beer!

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    As a kid, Looney Tunes led me to believe that sticks of dynamite and giant wooden barrels of TNT were commonplace items that were easy to come by.
     
  16. JamieC

    JamieC Senior Member

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    Since this is just an excerpt you can't judge the whole cartoon. But it looks right for the first time in a long time. The real test is when the characters speak. It takes a team of twenty to cover one Mel Blanc.
    Dance Of The Hours is a good musical choice.
     
  17. Strat-Mangler

    Strat-Mangler Personal Survival Daily Record-Breaker

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    He wasn't known as The Man Of A 1000 Voices for nothing.
     
  18. AKA

    AKA Senior Member Thread Starter

    The new guy they have doing Bugs and Daffy, Eric Bauza, is as close to Mel Blanc as they’ve gotten in the past 50 years. He’s even better than Mel was the last 20 years or so of his life.



    LOONEY TUNES VOICE ACTORS SURPRISE WB STUDIO TOUR | The Looney Tunes Critic
     
  19. FredV

    FredV Senior Member

    :biglaugh:That made me laugh out loud!
     
  20. AKA

    AKA Senior Member Thread Starter

    Here’s leaked footage from another short, starring Daffy and Porky:

     
  21. Kevin In Choconut Center

    Kevin In Choconut Center Offensive Coordinator

    This is so cool. Taking things back to a 1940s style, rather than modernizing, is the right thing to do, I think. I'm wondering what the distribution stream for this will be. It'd be neat to have them put in theaters with films, but also to have a second option as well. Netflix, streaming perhaps, or digital downloads?
     
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  22. Chris DeVoe

    Chris DeVoe RIP Vickie Mapes Williams (aka Equipoise)

    I just watched it again, and towards the end, when Bugs gives Elmer the box of candy and flowers is just as fast.

    This is a trailer basically, rather than a full cartoon. Of course it's a bunch of action.

    That said, it's beautiful work. The folks who worked on it have a good feel for the characters and I can hardly wait to see a full cartoon from them. I'm wondering if it is the state of the art of computer in-betweening, inking and painting.
     
  23. Chris DeVoe

    Chris DeVoe RIP Vickie Mapes Williams (aka Equipoise)

    He's remarkable!
     
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  24. JerolW

    JerolW Senior Member

    And Carl Stalling-ish music.

    jerol
     
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  25. Tim Lookingbill

    Tim Lookingbill Alfalfa Male

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    I realize these posted video samples are just excerpts and I too have issues with the frenetic pacing and timing as Strat-Mangler pointed out. But what I see missing and is what really made Warner Bros. cartoons so much better than MGM's and others was the Brooklyn, New York street wise irreverence and smart aleck attitudes in the delivery of the dialog which has a lot to do with the writing, timing and delivery of the lines provided by the voice actors.

    I mean why would someone write a line for a cartoon rabbit such as Bugs Bunny using an insult such as "What a maroon!". That's a level of sophisticated word play and character development rarely seen even in live action comedies today. I just hope the makers of this Warner Bros. cartoon reprise keep it adult oriented in its humor. If they don't then it just becomes cartoon cereal box characters like Lucky Charms and Tony The Tiger animation.
     
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