television shows, including Animaniacs (1993–1998), its spin-off Pinky and the Brain (1995–1998), and Freakazoid! (1995–1997) followed in continuing the Looney Tunes tradition of cartoon humor.
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original animated TV series Tiny Toon Adventures (1990–1995) was produced in conjunction with Amblin Entertainment, and featured young cartoon characters based upon specific Looney Tunes stars, and was a success. Darrell Van Citters, who used to work at Disney, would work on the newer Bugs Bunny shorts, before leaving to form Renegade Animation in 1992. A studio for the television unit was set up in the office tower of the Imperial Bank Building adjacent to the Sherman Oaks Galleria northwest of Los Angeles. Warners' television division was established by WB Animation President Jean MacCurdy, who brought in producer Tom Ruegger and much of his staff from Hanna-Barbera Productions' A Pup Named Scooby-Doo series (1988–1991). moved into regular television animation production. Many of these shorts, as well as the new footage in the compilation film Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (which includes The Duxorcist), were directed by Greg Ford and Terry Lennon, as well as Darrell Van Citters.ġ986–1998: Moving into television animationīeginning in 1986, Warner Bros. The studio continued production on special projects starring the Looney Tunes characters, sporadically producing new Looney Tunes/ Merrie Melodies shorts for theaters such as The Duxorcist (1987), Night of the Living Duck (1988), Box-Office Bunny (1990), and Carrotblanca (1995). Greene, who in turn was replaced by Freleng's former secretary Kathleen Helpie-Shipley, who would spearhead a major revival of the Looney Tunes brand in the years that followed. Animation staff, composed mainly of veterans from the golden age of WB cartoons, including writers John Dunn and Dave Detiege.īy 1986, Freleng had departed, and Hal Geer also stepped down the following year.
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The new wraparounds for The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981), Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982) and Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island (1983) featured footage by a new Warner Bros. The studio's initial head was Hal Geer, who had been the original studio's sound effects editor during its final days, and he was soon joined by Friz Freleng, who left DePatie–Freleng (which became Marvel Productions after being sold to Marvel Comics), and returned to Warner as executive producer. Animation opened its doors in 1980 to produce compilation films and television specials starring the Looney Tunes characters. responded to the success of this film by reestablishing its own cartoon studio.
This film blended classic Looney Tunes/ Merrie Melodies shorts with newly produced wraparounds of Bugs Bunny introducing each cartoon. library), led Jones to produce The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie for Warner Bros. These specials, and a 1975 Looney Tunes retrospective feature film titled Bugs Bunny: Superstar (distributed by United Artists, the previous owner of the pre-1950 Warner Bros. Cartoon alumnus Chuck Jones began producing a series of Looney Tunes specials at his Chuck Jones Productions animation studio, the first of which was Carnival of the Animals. Outside animation companies were hired to produce new Looney Tunes-related animation for TV specials and commercials at irregular intervals. Cartoons studio, as well as all of Warner Bros.'s short subject production divisions, closed in 1969 due to the rising costs and declining returns of short subject production.
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