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BTW ... "Mchelean" ??? COME ON!!!

Did I? Gads, I don't remember working on that one ... But hey, if some of it looked like I animated on it, well you know, everybody wishes they could animate like me ... :D

I'll tell ya what I know about WB ink & paint. During the years we serviced Warner Bros (1992-2000), it was understood that all shows were to be produced on 35 mm film. The explanation for this was that the industry was in a state of flux and they were looking forward to the Hi-Def Era, and...

Either A) Chuck Jones would roll over in his grave, or B) the universe would be swallowed up in a giant swirling vortex.

Never dressed up like him, but he was my cartoon inspiration as a kid ...

I think you guys are underestimating Nathan's ability to ham it up and have fun. I know from experience with my own kids that they love pretending to cry. Not that I was there at the recording of this episode, but I would bet serious money that nothing terrible had to be done to get him to cry...

Correct. Incorrect. More studios = more hassle, trickier logistics.

Character layouts are always done - sometimes by the animator as he/she animates. Animation doesn't happen without character layouts. Not sure what you're hearing. They are singing, and their voices are a little distorted to match the Macarena style. Maybe Tom R knows who did the music ... not...

OK, who's going to be the first one to tell cavgurl that Tom was the executive producer of Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Freakazoid, and how many others ... ?

Would anybody happen to know which four episodes are being released in this European Volume 1?

To start with, my eyes feel the same way. But the thing about Dexter's Lab and Fairly Oddparents is that many years from now, when its audience is grown up and the executives of the future to decide to remake them, their fans will want it in the same style, the same look as those characters...

Sorry, hadn't been following this thread ... but look, here's the thing: When Tiny Toonscame on the scene, it was really revolutionary for an animated TV series. It was the first time anybody had tried to capture the old Golden Age wackiness in a TV series. Up until that stage Akom had been...

Ha! I never heard the full account - seems like whenever you'd start to tell that story you'd end up having to rush to another meeting or something. I gotta question for you, Tom: In the beginning of that short, we see a silhouette of Plucky in the mist, and he says something like, "I...

Philmister is correct-a-mundo. Warner Bros just lumped her in with the Animation Department when they (presumably) submitted the credits to IMDB. IMDB however, must have Kathy McClenahan confused with somebody else where they list her as a SPFX artist. They are now living in Richmond, VA, but...

We never knew who would be lucky enough to get credits when we gave our lists to WB. And we would often be surprised when the names of artists who didn't work for us - obviously WB staff artists - would show up on the credits - folks who never did anything on a particular production. Once, as...

It was indeed LaMarche ... and I was so impressed with his impression, mainly because it sounded more like - reflected the real comic energy of - Robin Williams ... than Robin Williams himself did when he voiced his own character (in the Mork & Mindy Show, the animated version)! Everybody...

Just a few comments from a guy who felt himself pretty lucky to get to work on something like this (whose previous animation experience had been on shows like "Mork & Mindy", "Laverne & Shirley in the Army", and "Private Olive Oyl"): I agree - I always used to think Henny Youngman's delivery...

I did make one road trip up to Toronto to meet Glen and his gang, and at that time I met a whole gaggle of Korean animators who were very polite but couldn't speak English ... they were living together in a house near the studio that Kennedy Cartoons had rented. I assume these names are those guys.

I don't know for absolute certain that Glen worked on it, but I would bet money that he did. Because I had to do a few of the scenes with Stanley, they sent me some early rough line tests for reference, and it looked like Glen's stuff. Usually when reference footage was sent out it came from Glen.

I know Martianinvader has found my information (often my guesses) to be wrong in the past, and my memory on a lot of this stuff isn't as good as yours (Tom) - and in fact some of these guys (esp. Martianinvader, Speedy Boris, and Keeper) seem to actually remember what StarToons did better than I...

Reminds me of ... what cartoon was it? "Stand Up and Deliver"? Where Robin Killems points out that Buster and Plucky are making a new fashion statement: shirts with no pants! Whereupon they immediately get embarrassed & pull their shirts down over their nakedness. At the time when "we"...

Um, yes, that is mine. Very embarrassing ... it was before I figured out more or less how to draw Buster. But I did it after Buster and the Wolverine.

I remember doing the board for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo Clock" and being amazed the whole time I was boarding it. As far as I could see, it was a statement about the interference by the education system in family life, where social services are called in to make judgments about the viability of...

[Writing from a hotel room in Montana ...] I know I got bits and pieces from different cartoons and I didn't always know the title of the show. Remember, I was working in Chicago and the scenes were being sent to me from Toronto. But "Buster & The Wolverine" was the first TTA I worked on, and I...

It was fun, but it's not advisable. It's always better for the continuity of the series to be "on model." That said, I've never been able to do it! I know the Warner Bros directors (Clampett, Avery, Jones, McKimson, Freleng) were easily identifiable by their work, but it seems (to me) the...

For what it's worth, the human caricature in the box of chocolates was supposed to be Kirk Douglas. I can't remember his line, but the impersonation was good (not that Kirk Douglas is real hard to do). Looking back on this episode, when I saw the finished stuff it was hard to believe Kennedy's...

Thanks for the nice thoughts, folks ... and the memories, Speedy B! The thing about Darkwing is that it came out as a direct response to the success of Tiny Toons, and the model sheets even referred to techniques for achieving a "Warners" look. Otherwise I would say my stuff was ill-suited for...

Yeah the tricky thing about the name "Daly" is that it sounds like the word "Daily" so a lot of times people misspell it and can't find information about them, for instance, on Wikipedia. Bob Daly was CEO of Warner Bros from 1980 through the nineties.

We were very good at making cartoons ... but we apparently weren't very good at selling them! To answer your question, nothing happened with M7.

I'm on your side, Romey! Let's face it, different cartoons require different styles. The bouncy energetic style we used for Tiny Toons, Taz-Mania and Animaniacs wouldn't be appropriate for Freakazoid. However, I find it interesting that a studio gets typecast as being of a certain style just...

Ruegger and Art Vitello kept us busy on Taz-Mania until Animaniacs started up production, and so they switched us over to that as soon as possible. They were also being much more budget-conscious about Taz-Mania (e.g. a five instrument band instead of full orchestral music) and so I think they...

Yes (Cartoonzrule), that was indeed Spike. Just one of those inconsistencies. We were a little skitterish about Buster's ears because one thing Spielberg didn't like was cutting off the tops of Buster's ears (with the top of the television frame). Since his ears made up about 60-70% of the...

OK, yes ... Looks pretty good to me. I like the heavier eyebrow arch lines, and I think they are the correct model, but sometimes they didn't get cleaned up properly. I like Slappy better this way. The mouth looks a little wonky, which suggests to me that this is an inbetween drawing...

Not sure what you're seeing. Digital ink & paint was never used, at WB's request. The stuff was roughed in pencil, then cleaned up in pencil, then xeroxed onto cels. No inkers. Slappy was supposed to have thick eyebrows (eye "arches"), so if we made 'em thin at one time, we were slack.

Again, just to clarify, Tom Ruegger knew exactly what to expect from Kennedy because, as you said, they had worked together on "A Pup Named Scooby Doo." I just know that when Spielberg gets involved and he says, "Jump," your only correct response can be, "How high, Mr. Spielberg?" In this...

Wow. Never saw that post. Brings back memories! For the record, the pic at the top is definitely mine; the next one down (in front of the TV set) is probably mine (75% chance?); the third one is definitely NOT mine - mainly because I never draw the corner of the mouth that way and also I...

A reporter once asked Freddy Moore, the great Disney animator, what Mickey Mouse would look like when drawn from an overhead point-of-view. His Socratic answer to that question, which I think works for this issue as well, was as follows: "Why would anyone ever draw Mickey Mouse from an...

He roughed in crayon, but the drawings were always cleaned up in pencil. So I'm not sure what would explain the graininess.

Thanks Boris! As you can read above, I couldn't find that old thread!

Um, I think there's also a thread on this forum where you can post some of your own fan art. I think it would be great to see what you consider "well-drawn" ... or particularly "well-animated" if you could post a clip. Et cetera etc cetera ... You might also want to check out the very old...