Sep 8, 2023

Among fans of the 1990s, "Tiny Toons Loon" has gained popularity.

Amblin Television and Warner Bros.Animation's long-awaited reboot, Tiny Toons Looniversity, premieres today on Cartoon Network's Max and tomorrow.

While the entire first season will be immediately available at Max, Cartoon Network will debut a new episode every week.

The series introduces a new generation of viewers to the popular characters of the 1990-1992 original series Little Toons Adventures, including Babs and Buster Bunny, Hamton, and Plucky. But it looks familiar to parents who grew up with the crew three decades ago.

Erin Gibson () and Nate Cash (Adventure Time) are co-showrunners and co-executive producers. Steven Spielberg, executive producer of the original series, was joined by Sam Register, president of Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios, and Justin Farby and Daryl Frank, President of Amblin Television. I'm back as an executive producer.

Prior to the show's release, Cache shared a bunch of behind-the-scenes artwork with us and spoke to us through the guidelines Looniversity artists followed in rebooting the Little Toons for the 21st century.

We started with a hardcore return to the basics of classic comics. There are no cheats.

Between the script handout and the storyboard, there is an "art path" that selects visually dynamic critical moments to ensure that the story is being tracked.

Our storyboard artists were encouraged to "break" models for specific expressions...

The subtle perspective depicted in the character layout Leonard Lee (Character Supervisor) has made some corrections to this shot.

You can't fool that old-fashioned cartoon squish.

The close-up of the characters is drawn in more detail and configured specifically for the shot, so it doesn't feel like a mere "zoom-in" version of the same drawing. (There is no cheating.

Many lighting setups to distinguish different locations on campus. Our color designers worked hard to hit the right balance of immersing the characters in their environment with just the right amount of color "pop."

A traditional pan with hand-drawn camera "movement" in the layout. The old school trick is still Rudd.

Benjamin Lee (art Director) shows off how to paint the atmosphere and mood into established shots to set the tone.

Oh...... Where do they go -

Scary. What is that doll -

Overall, it was a very collaborative process and each department and individual artist brought their "A" game.

The unity of the crew was important. We made time to emulate the experience of working directly with the Zoom Show and tell them to share things that aren't work-related with the crew. Sawanori Emiko (animation director) ate bugs, showed Brooke Regalard (character design) how to teach dogs, and Aaron McLeod-Bryant (storyboard revision) shared a recently discovered mom's yearbook. And every Friday, Matt Yang (director) asked the director what he was doing that weekend, putting everyone's plans together into a single panel illustration.