For every Rick & Morty, there are ten Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!’s. For every Bob’s Burgers, there are twenty Steven Universes. We’ve 𝔉all seen the meme🐻s showcasing how animation styles have become, well… systematically lazier as networks try to pump out the next Adventure Time, with mostly poor results.
It was bound to happen, but even Mickey Mouse and friends, along with the Looney Tunes crew, eventually became cracked-out vꦍersions of themselves for a new generation to fall in love with(?). Unfortunateꦛly, that canned art design diminishes what made shows like the original DuckTales and Merrie Melodies great. The hand-drawn art is what gave those shows heart and personality, not to mention the subtle adult humor that made its way into a chi🐷ldren’s a🌱nimated series - at least in regards to the latter.
Fortunately, with tomorrow’s launch of WarnerMedia's new streaming service, HBO Max, fans of yesteryear’s animation are going to 🐭be th🌜rown a bone - or, perhaps rather, a stick of ACME dynamite - with all-new Looney Tunes Cartoons
80 eleven-minute episodes of Looney Tunes Cartoons have been produced by Warner Bros. Animation, including Bugs Bunny and all of the other beloved characters that made the series so amazing. While the shorts will vary in length (and will even include remakes of some of the original storylines), high-qualit🌼y animation is what was most importa💙nt to Warner Bros., which stated that "the high production value and process of the original Looney Tunes theatrical short🌱s with a cartoonist-driven appro🅺ach to storytelling" was the focus.
Judging from the exclusive clip provided to IGN, it’s clear that Warner Bros.’ statement rings true. The art design is clearly different from most of the generic animations that are currently out there, with characters who look and sounds like they di🅷d in their prime, thanks to the voice talents of Eric Bauza, Jeff Bergman, and Bo♋b Bergen, to name a few.
It’s exciting to see the care and consideration that has gone into recreatꦯing such a beloved franchise. If Capcom can reestablish its Resident Evil franchise with high-quality remakes while introducing it to a new generaꦉtion of gamers to experience, there’s little doubt that Warner Bros. has just as much - if not more - of a capacity to do the same for Looney Tunes.
Now, if only Disney could knock it off with the live-action remakes and just get back to the non-CGI, hand-drawn animation that initially made it such a powerhouse of ani🀅mation...