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Tag "Bugs Bunny"
The Case of the Copycat Concerto
It’s only August, but Oscar chatter is already starting to be heard. This has reminded me of one particular Oscar-winning cartoon, around which revolves one of the few genuine mysteries of the cartoon world: the uncanny, even suspicious, similarity between Warner Bros’ 1946 Bugs Bunny cartoon Rhapsody Rabbit and MGM’s [...]
Faster Than the Eye Can See!
One individual animation drawing goes by faster than the eye can register. Animators have an abundance of funny ideas. Animators working in England frequently go to lunch in pubs and knock back a few, lubricating those funny ideas. To what do these three facts add up? To that fact that [...]
The Looney Tunes Studio’s Near-Death Experience
Throughout the history of animation, there have been plenty of train wrecks (metaphorically speaking, of course), usually on the feature film side of things, but how about bus wrecks? And literal bus wrecks at that? While interviewing legendary layout and design artist Bob Givens in 1992, for an article that [...]
Bugs and Daffy Fly Spirit Airlines
In conjunction with the premiere of the new Looney Tunes Show on Cartoon Network on Tuesday at 8 p.m. (May 3), the cabler has kicked off a new advertising campaign in conjunction with Spirit Airlines. CN has developed special custom graphics with production media company Global OnBoard Partners transforming the [...]
Question for the Week of March 28 2011
On May 4, Cartoon Network will unveil the new Looney Tunes Show, which features newly designed versions of classic characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd. What is your gut reaction to this new offering? Are you excited to see these familiar faces on TV?
The Totally Odd Couple – ‘The Looney Tunes Show’
Bugs and Daffy share a home in The Looney Tunes Show, an offbeat new half-hour toon which introduces the classic characters to a new generation of Cartoon Network audiences. More than 73 years after Bugs Bunny made his first appearance in the short Porky’s Hare Hunt (April 30, 1938), everyone’s [...]
Question for the Week of February 28 2011
Which classic animated character would you like to see back on the movie screen, 2D or CG? • Popeye the Sailor • Betty Boop • Oswald the Rabbit • Felix the Cat • Bugs Bunny • Donald Duck
Bugs, Scoob, Optimus, Bats and Spidey Make Teletoon Retro Hall of Fame
Canadian cartoon fans have picked Bugs Bunny, Scooby-Doo, Optimus Prime, Batman and Spider-Man as the first five inductees in the Teletoon Retro Hall of Fame. The selection was determined by more than 170,000 fan votes submitted through the Canadian TV channel’s website and a Facebook app. To commemorate the inductees, Teletoon [...]
‘Star Trek’ Beams...
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Universal Releases New Clip...
Universal has released the first clip from Illumination’s eagerly anticipated...
