Earl Kress is doing a series of posts on "the best Looney Tune You've Never Seen," "Little Go Beep", about the youthful Road Runner and Coyote. Kress wrote it and Spike Brandt directed it (Brandt was an animator for StarToons before joining Warner Brothers, where he specialized in handling the classic characters). The posts are very informative about the process of getting a cartoon made, and make you sorry that WB didn't go on commissioning more Looney Tunes cartoons from its in-house production people.
Sounds like a similar story to the one that kept 1991's "Blooper Bunny" on the shelf for five years. There are people out there in the animation industry who know how to make a good Warner Bros. cartoon, the main problem is the suits interfere 100 times more than J.L. or Leon even thought of doing when the characters were first created.
ReplyDeletePart of what keeps these cartoons on the shelf is a disconnect between the production end and the distribution end. The latter haven't a clue what to do with these films. If anything, they see them only as something to be tacked onto a children's film.
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