#Darrell Van Citters

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Early Sketches “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” (1988)

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RIP to Peter Renaday (Pierre Renoudet), a well-known voice actor who also played Eddie Valiant in early tests for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, alongside Paul Reubens as Roger. These were directed by Darrell Van Citters (with Chris Buck, Mike Giamo and others). Van Citters would have more luck with another rabbit when he helped modernize Bugs Bunny for 1990. Here's some restored rare footage from this unused development.

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Silly, Aren’t They? “Hare Jordan” (1992)

Looney Tunes Original Production Drawing: Bugs Bunny

MEDIUM: ​Original Production Drawing IMAGE SIZE: 12 Field PRODUCTION: Looney Tunes SKU: IFA5041

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Termite Terrace Club - March 26th

1949 - Daffy Duck Hunt - Dir. Robert McKimson

1955 - Sahara Hare - Dir. Friz Freleng

1966 - Daffy Rents - Dir. Robert McKimson

1997 - Pullet Surprise - Dir. Darrell Van Citters

TV

2024 - Bugs Bunny Builders Season 2: "Junior"

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Looney Tunes: Box Office Bunny Director: Darrell Van Citters Studio: Warner Bros. | USA, 1991

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Roger Rabbit early design sketches by Darrell Van Citters and Chris Buck

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Unproduced Swabbies Production Art (1989)

Swabbies (1989)

One of the many un-released Disney animated featurette that never got completed. Swabbies (also called "Production 2532"), was going to be released in 1989.

Before the short The Prince and the Pauper (1990) was released, Disney was producing a Mickey, Donald and Goofy short called Swabbies, following the style of the live-action film Stripes (a classic Bill Murray/Harold Ramis comedy, by Columbia Pictures, 1981).

Swabbies was the second in what was supposed to be a number of half hour projects to get the classic Disney characters definitely back in the spotlight, the first one being Sport Goofy in Soccermania, released in 1987.

The Plot of Swabbies

The story found our heroes, Mickey, Donald and Goofy out of work, out of luck and in need of a job. They end up enlisting in the Navy and going to boot camp with Pete as their exasperated drill instructor and then meet their feminine counterparts, Minnie, Daisy and Clarabelle who are all WAVEs (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). Once they put to sea, they encounter a submarine full of the Beagle Boys, who all spoke a Russian sounding gibberish (they were still in the Cold War in those days). Mickey and friends coming out on top in the end.

The entire film was storyboarded, recorded and even an animatic was created. Complete model sheets of all the characters were printed up and layout as well as some animation had begun before it came to an abrupt halt.

It was to be produced by Tad Stones and directed by Darrel Van Citters. Some more talent involved was Ed Gombert, Joe Ranft and Michael Giaimo on story, Kelly Asbury and Fred Cline in layout, Chris Buck, Toby Shelton and Ed Gombert on animation, model sheets by Chris Buck and Mike Gabriel.

References:

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Swabbies

https://web.archive.org/web/20111205112854/http://animationarchive.net/Deleted%20Movies/Swabbies/

See more of the original art on here.

I also traced the original model sheets and painted them to be easier to visualize, you can see it here.

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I want to expand a bit on my previous post on SHUT DOWN VOLUME 2 and WOODY WOODPECKER IN CRAZY CASTLE 5...

The CRAZY CASTLE game series, as noted in the post, has a history with WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT...

WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT almost got a follow-up movie, multiple times. It's bizarre to think that one of the blockbusters of the 1980s, and a film that helped restore Disney's magic in a time where they needed some, didn't ever get a sequel and likely won't ever get one. (Probably for the better right now, for the Disney company as it is would likely blow it.)

The original WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT was released by Walt Disney Pictures through their more adult-oriented Touchstone label in 1988, at the behest of Roy E. Disney and Michael Eisner, who felt the film was a bit too "risque" to be a Disney-branded picture.

The film started out as a Walt Disney Productions endeavor in 1981 after the enterprise got the rights to the original book by Gary K. Wolf, with animation direction to be done then-relatively new animator on the block, Darrell Van Citters, who had previously worked on THE FOX AND THE HOUND. This early version of the movie took a much more stylized, Tex Avery approach, with a Roger who looked like he could've stepped in from one of the legendary director's many cartoons:

That version was put on ice after Disney executive Thomas Wilhite, who wanted to shake things up in the dormant Disney domain by greenlighting more ambitious projects (such as TRON, which he gave the go-head in his first year in that position), left the studio by the middle of 1983.

Upon Michael Eisner's arrival to the enterprise, there was renewed interest in WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, and they got Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis on board. A huge freakin' deal for the Disney ship, who had previously passed on BACK ON THE FUTURE and an alien invasion movie Spielberg had pitched to them around 1979, that would later morph into E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL.

The thing was, Spielberg didn't feel that Walt Disney Feature Animation - as they were at the time, circa 1985 - were up to the task of creating the film's animation. Interestingly, the last time the animation wing had done any major hybrid live-action/animation work was PETE'S DRAGON, released in 1977... But this film needed to be unlike what had come before in the realm of hybrids, and Spielberg was far more impressed with what he saw of Richard Williams' resume... Thus, Richard Williams Animation Ltd. in London was assigned the film's animation, with some help from the Dale Baer studio on U.S. soil.

So, WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT is not a Walt Disney Feature Animation picture, but it is a Disney movie under a different label with plenty of animation in it, including several Disney animated characters - from the Mickey Mouse gang to characters from feature films, like Dumbo - making cameo appearances. Many Disney animators worked on it, too, such as Eric Goldberg and Andreas Deja...

Disney Feature Animation took on the first short film made in the aftermath of the movie's runaway success, 1989's TUMMY TROUBLE. Richard Williams was not going to be back for more Roger Rabbit, he entered a deal with Warner Bros. to finish THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER, which sadly did not happen... And by 1989, the studio was more than fit to make a Roger Rabbit follow-up, as TUMMY TROUBLE would prove.

May 1, 1989, over a month before TUMMY TROUBLE screened in theaters with HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS, Disney opened the Disney-MGM Studios theme park outside of Orlando, Florida. And nestled in that park was the defunct Florida unit of Disney Feature Animation. The folks there were the ones tasked to make this sure-to-happen movie event. They were primed for it, they were handed the second short film starring Roger, Jessica Rabbit, Baby Herman, and Mrs. Herman, ROLLER COASTER RABBIT... As you could imagine, there were larger theme park plans for the characters as well, hence the new animated stuff being made within a literal theme park and the second short involving amusement rides!

But many things kept waylaying the prequel, which - after lots of development and changes - would've been titled WHO DISCOVERED ROGER RABBIT... Which meant that Disney Animation Florida had to find other things to work on, as the relationship between co-owner Spielberg and Disney was on shaky grounds, putting Roger Rabbit's future in limbo. Namely helping on the Burbank features, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and THE LION KING for example. They eventually got one more short, TRAIL MIX-UP, released in 1993.

Suppose we got WHO DISCOVERED ROGER RABBIT, or the scrapped live-action/CG hybrid film that was being planned around 1998, which Florida was also supposed to do... Let's go with the movie that was targeting a 1992-ish release, to make things easier.

WHO DISCOVERED ROGER RABBIT would've been a full-on Walt Disney Feature Animation movie, and would've been the first one - animation-wise - made entirely in Florida. MULAN ended up being WDFA-Florida's first in-house production, released in 1998. Rob Minkoff would've been the director for both the animation and the live-action on WHO DISCOVERED ROGER RABBIT, and in this timeline, I suppose THE LION KING still happens but it's with another director in place of Minkoff. That's a fun scenario to ponder, because Minkoff didn't direct LION KING alone, for he was paired with Roger Allers on that movie. In this alternate timeline, maybe LION KING is from Allers and someone else. Maybe former director George Scribner stays on the movie and works with Allers, who knows...

True, there would've been the live-action portions in this ROGER RABBIT prequel and it probably would've been an Amblin movie as well... But, would Disney have counted it as part of the "Disney Animated Features Canon"? Would this have been - had it debuted in mid-1992 - Feature #31 between BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and ALADDIN? A sequel to a movie WDFA had such little involvement with?

Hell, would this have been a Touchstone release? Or would Disney have eased up a little bit and made it a mainline Walt Disney Pictures release? Now that the characters were to have much more of a presence in the Disney theme parks? Complete with a Walt Disney Home Video clamshell VHS release as part of The Classics line? I think a Touchstone movie that's all animated by WDFA would've been unusual, to say the least!

It also would've been WDFA's first real hybrid, in a way. SONG OF THE SOUTH, SO DEAR TO MY HEART, MARY POPPINS, BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS, and PETE'S DRAGON are not really WDFA movies, but they have Disney animation in them, this would've been more of a half-and-half thing than those movies, but still not as all-animated as the 1940s package features that have a significant amount of live-action in them, like THE THREE CABALLEROS and FUN & FANCY FREE.

This makes it possible that the movie is not billed as a WDFA movie whatsoever, even if it all the animation in it would've been done by them. It'd probably be seen as a live-action movie, with lots of stuff provided by WDFA.

Definitely a bit of a conundrum if you think about it!

Then again, look at Amblimation, to tie this to Spielberg once more. Amblimation's first feature was AN AMERICAN TAIL II: FIEVEL GOES WEST. Don Bluth and his studio, the originators of AN AMERICAN TAIL, had no involvement in FIEVEL GOES WEST. The only major link is Spielberg.

MGM/United Artists went ahead with a sequel to ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN, without Don Bluth and his studio being involved. ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN 2 was produced by the very short-lived MGM Animation, most of the actual animation work being outsourced at that.

You also have the Disney animated sequels that went direct-to-video, made by Disney MovieToons/Disneytoon Studios, and had little to no involvement from Walt Disney Feature Animation, but sometimes they involved people from the original movies, such as Roger Allers having some say on THE LION KING 1 1/2 (or THE LION KING 3: HAKUNA MATATA, if you don't live in the U.S.). Sometimes, most of the original casts, even. Almost everyone was back for LION KING II: SIMBA'S PRIDE.

Disney would also use DisneyToon to make TINKER BELL movies, adjacent to the classic PETER PAN, and also spin-offs of Pixar's CARS in the form of the PLANES movies, and they had big plans for this extended CARS-verse. Lots of scrapped movies that would've involved spacecraft, boats, metro trains, etc. Disneytoon Studios was shut down in mid-2018 following the exit of John Lasseter.

The list goes on, even into today, such as the upcoming ICE AGE 6, which is the first theatrical movie in the series to be distributed by Disney, and the first to not be a Blue Sky production... Since Disney shut that studio down after acquiring 20th Century Fox and them, and I keep thinking how unusual - and sad- it's going to be to see an all-new ICE AGE movie in theaters without the Blue Sky logo, because that places does not exist anymore. And top that off, ICE AGE began life as a Don Bluth/Gary Goldman-directed Fox Animation Studios film in the late '90s...

Sometimes these things are like nomads, going from one studio to the next, sometimes having completely different filmmakers involved...

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Warner Bros. Animation Characters

Animaniacs Belongs To Tom Ruegger, Steven Spielberg, TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd. Shanghai Morning Sun Animation Co., Ltd. Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd. StarToons International, LLC, AKOM Production, Ltd. Freelance Animators Co., Ltd. Varga Studio, Ltd. CNK International Co, Ltd. Phillippine Animation Studio Inc. Amblin Entertainment, Inc. Amblin Partners, LLC. Warner Bros. Animation Inc. FOX KIDS, FOX Family Worldwide Inc. FOX Broadcasting Company, FOX Entertainment, FOX Corporation, Kids' WB! The WB, The WB Television Network, Inc. Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC. Tribune Media Company, Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution Warner Bros. Television Studios, Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

Animaniacs (2020 Reboot) Belongs To Tom Ruegger, Wellesley Wild, Steven Spielberg, Digital eMation, Inc. Saerom Animation, Inc. Snipple Animation Studios, Tiger Animation, Titmouse Animation, Inc. Tonic DNA Animation, Toon City Animation, Inc. Yowza! Animation, Giant Ant Animation, Studio Yotta, Birdo Studio, Flystudio, Screen Novelties, Amblin Television, Amblin Entertainment, Inc. Amblin Partners, LLC. Warner Bros. Animation Inc. Hulu, LLC. Disney Streaming, Disney Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution Warner Bros. Television Studios, Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

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Tom and Jerry Belongs To William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd. Fil-Cartoons, Mr. Big Cartoons, Bardel Entertainment, Inc. Baer Animation Company, CNK International, Seoul Movie Co., Ltd. Toon City Animation Inc. Yearim Productions Co., Ltd. Hanho Heung-Up Co., Ltd. Rough Draft Korea Co. Ltd. Rough Draft Studios, Inc. Lotto Animation, Inc. Renegade Animation, PIP Animation Services Inc. Slap Happy Cartoons Inc. Digital eMation, Inc. Duncan Studio, Rembrandt Films, Sib Tower 12, Inc. MGM Animation/Visual Arts, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon Studio, Harman-Ising Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. MGM Holdings, Inc. Amazon MGM Studios, Amazon.com, Inc. Turner Entertainment Company, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. Warner Bros. Animation Inc. Kids' WB! The WB, The WB Television Network, Inc. Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC. Tribune Media Company, Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Cartoon Network, Boomerang, The Cartoon Network, Inc. Warner Bros. Discovery Networks, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, Warner Bros. Television Studios, Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

Tom and Jerry Tales Belongs To William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Rob LaDuca, Jeff Davison, Toon City Animation Inc. Yearim Productions Co., Ltd. Rough Draft Korea Co. Ltd. Rough Draft Studios, Inc. Lotto Animation, Inc. Turner Entertainment Company, Warner Bros. Animation Inc. Kids' WB! The WB, The WB Television Network, Inc. Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC. Tribune Media Company, Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Cartoon Network, Boomerang, The Cartoon Network, Inc. Warner Bros. Discovery Networks, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, Warner Bros. Television Studios, Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

The Tom And Jerry Show Belongs To William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Darrell Van Citters, Renegade Animation, PIP Animation Services Inc. Slap Happy Cartoons Inc. Turner Entertainment Company, Warner Bros. Animation Inc. Cartoon Network, Boomerang, The Cartoon Network, Inc. Warner Bros. Discovery Networks, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, Warner Bros. Television Studios, Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

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Superman: The Animated Series Belongs To Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Alan Burnett, Bruce Timm, Koko Enterprises Ltd. TMS Entertainment Co., Ltd. Dong Yang Animation Co., Ltd. Group TAC Co., Ltd. DC Comics, Inc. DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation Inc. Kids' WB! The WB, The WB Television Network, Inc. Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC. Tribune Media Company, Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution Warner Bros. Television Studios, Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

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Krypto the Superdog Belongs To Otto Binder, Curt Swan, Alan Burnett, Paul Dini, DongWoo Animation Co. Ltd. Studio B Productions, Inc. DHX Media Vancouver, WildBrain Studios, Starburst Animation Studios Co., Ltd. Top Draw Animation Inc. Mercury Filmworks, DC Comics, Inc. DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation Inc. Kids' WB! The WB, The WB Television Network, Inc. Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC. Tribune Media Company, Nexstar Media Group, Inc. Cartoon Network, The Cartoon Network, Inc. Warner Bros. Discovery Networks, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution Warner Bros. Television Studios, Warner Bros. Television Group, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. WarnerMedia, And Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

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Recently checked out The Tom and Jerry Show episode “Pipeline”, which included storyboard guy @baldmelon, and I saw that a certain prophet inscribed his name inside a whale that ate Tom and Spike. I wonder...

Coincidence?

“Coincidence. I only worked on the other 11 minute episode in that show. This gag is not my handy work.” - Tim Hodge

Tweet version here

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Oh Buuuugsy…

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First Theatrical Release Since 1964 “Box-Office Bunny” (1990)

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Looney Tunes Original Production Cel Signed By Darrell Van Citters: Daffy and Penelope Pussy Cat

MEDIUM: ​Original Production Cel PRODUCTION: Looney Tunes SKU: IFA8029 SIGNED: Darrell Van Citters

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Termite Terrace Club - February 8th

1936 - The Cat Came Back - Dir. Friz Freleng 1964 - A Message to Gracias - Dir. Robert McKimson

1991 - Box Office Bunny - Dir. Darrell Van Citters

TV 1990 - Tiny Toon Adventures Season 1: "The Weirdest Stories Ever Told" ("Robin Hare" / "To Babs or Not to Babs" / "Elmyra's 'Round the World") 1997 - Pinky & the Brain Season 2: "Brain of the Future" 2018 - New Looney Tunes Season 1 Episode 40-43, 45-52 / Season 2: "Love Is in the Hare" / "Valentine's Dayffy"

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RIP to Peter Renaday (Pierre Renoudet), a well-known voice actor who also played Eddie Valiant in early tests for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, alongside Paul Reubens as Roger. These were directed by Darrell Van Citters (with Chris Buck, Mike Giamo and others). Van Citters would have more luck with another rabbit when he helped modernize Bugs Bunny for 1990.

The Roger Rabbit You Never Got To See

More rare footage from the unmade 1983 Darrell Van Citters version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Starring Paul Reubens.

Before Richard Williams directed the animation for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, there was an earlier attempt at Disney, from 1981 to 1983, to adapt Gary K. Wolf’s book “Who Censored Roger Rabbit.”

http://youtu.be/E3mmaWgoFhM

John Culhane takes us behind the scenes of the unmade Darrell Van Citters version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 1983. With designer Mike Giamo and producer Marc Sturdivant.

Disney 1981-1983. Animators: Chris Buck, Randy Cartwright. Character design and concepts: Mike Giamo, Mike Gabriel. Paul Reubens, known as Pee Wee Herman, plays Roger Rabbit. Peter Renaday and Mike Gabriel as Eddie Valiant. Russi Taylor as Jessica. Jack Angel as Captain Cleaver. Screenwriters Peter Seaman and Jeffrey Price. Producer Mark Sturdivant.

Darrell Van Citters couldn’t remember who had played Baby Herman, but believes his name was Byron.

While Roger was a villain in the book, trying to solve his own murder, this Roger is a loveable goofball in white fur and red overalls - a prototype for the final film. Jessica Rabbit appears to be the villain of the piece. Still, this version clearly laid some groundwork for the Zemeckis/Williams production a few years later.

The prototype Roger Rabbit appears cheering in the stands in the featurette “Sport Goofy in Soccermania.”

More information and pictures:

http://orangecow.org/board/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3&p=5248#p5248

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TOM AND JERRY: COWBOY UP! (2022) Reviews and overview

TOM AND JERRY: COWBOY UP! (2022) Reviews and overview

Tom and Jerry: Cowboy Up! is a 2022 American animated film that finds the duo in the Wild West where they help save a ranch from a villain. Directed and produced by Darrell Van Citters (Tom and Jerry in New York series; The Tom and Jerry Show series) from a screenplay written by William Waldner and a story by Will Finn. Executive produced by Sam Register. Plot: “The Wild, Wild West just got…