From the course: Animating in Historical Styles

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Looney Toons: Overview

Looney Toons: Overview

From the course: Animating in Historical Styles

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Looney Toons: Overview

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- [Instructor] This is the scene I animated in the attempt to replicate the style of the late 1940s, early '50s, animated theatrical shorts. The kind of zany thing that people would consider to be in the "Looney Tunes" style, or maybe like something from a Hanna-Barbera "Tom and Jerry" cartoon. Over time, these cartoons grew wilder and faster with extreme staggers and sight gags until the animators basically hit the limits of what they could do up against the frame rates and so on. The Warner Brothers Studio was responsible for the creation of the "Looney Tunes" series beginning in 1930, ending around 1969, but they had really tapered off by them. And the golden age is from the mid '40s through the early '60s. That's the style I'll try to emulate in this series of movies. So although the creation of the various Warner Brothers characters was a collaborative process, the three most influential animators were Tex Avery…

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