#Hannna Barbera

[viradianjedi]

Broke: The Flintstones takes place in the past.

Woke: The Flintstones takes place shortly after the events of Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom.

[farmer-bedg]

BE 1113: Bead BE 1117: Audino hugging a seal BE 1125: Dominique BE 1133: Animal Crossing Test BE 1138: Christmas BE 1139: Style mimicry BE 1141: Style mimicry BE 1143: Basilisk BE 1150: Style test BE 1151: Style mimicry

[michiganrag]

Speeeeaking of which, though, I wasn’t expecting to be reblogging this much Animaniacs content. I could totally move that to my main blog if people would prefer that?

I was posting here at first because I was thinking it would be one or two outlier posts with another WB IP somewhat connected to the Looney Tunes. But it is a bit modern and if it was any other cartoon I would say it’s “a bit out of the scope of this blog”

[kuipernebula]

i unironically want dead by daylight to give us either a fnaf killer (i vote springtrap; he’s the only one deranged enough to really make sense) or a banana splits killer (i don’t remember any of their names but if they can’t get the fnaf license i guarantee hannna-barbera isn’t doing shit with it, that’s how the movie got that license in the first place)

[fredfilmsblog]

Best of Original Cartoons: What A Cartoon!  Part 1 [1995-1997]

“...[At] Hanna-Barbera Productions, a new kind of revolution began to brew: a return to old forms reworked by fresh, new voices.“  –John Maher, Vulture

  “‘Take Back Our Cartoons’ How What a Cartoon! tapped animation’s past to push the form into a new ’90s golden age.“  

It didn’t occur to me that my casual reading habits could have a giant impact on my “career” (such as it has been), but reading Leonard Maltin’s and Jerry Beck’s survey of classic cartoons jumped started my thinking that served me better than well when I stumbled in the cartoon business in the early 90s.

John Maher is the co-founder (with Eric Vilas-Boas) of the late, lamented The Dot + Line, the smart look at cartoons. Lucky me, he’s taken a deep dive into my very first foray into original cartoons, the shorts incubator “What A Cartoon!” for Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network. Great interviews with Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Hotel Transylvania), David Feiss (Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel) Craig McCraken (The Powerpuff Girls, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Wonder Over Yonder), Van Partible (Johnny Bravo) , moi.

“That a program rooted in the history of the art form was so instrumental in pushing it forward only shows how important it was for studios to take chances on creators — to let them, as Partible puts it, ‘take back our cartoons.’ And that’s exactly what they did.

This article is the nicest yet written yet about the start of my half dozen “shorts shows” done over the past several years, and lays out beautifully what I hoped to accomplish with a program that launched those stellar talents, not to mention Seth MacFarlane (Larry & Steve, Family Guy), Pat Ventura (Yucky Duck, Jamal the Funny Frog) and John R. Dilworth (Courage the Cowardly Dog).

Of course, John could only touch on the high points and the visible folks, the creators (Vulture isn’t a geek pub, it’s for a mainstream reader). So let me just mention a few of the people who really made a difference to the show and made it sing.

Buzz Potamkin ran production for me at Hannna-Barbera. His background was animated commercials and then was founder of Southern Star’s LA division where he produced The Bernenstain Bears and Teen Wolf. As the founder of Perpetual Motion Pictures and Buzzco in New York he had produced the famous “Moonman” animation for Alan Goodman and me at MTV. I had bent his ear for years about the cartoon business –long before I’d ever imagined actually being in it– and he became the first champion and Executive Producer of What A Cartoon! in the studio. Not for nothing, he convinced Ralph Bakshi and a number of other out-of-LA filmmakers to become part of the program.

Larry Huber (Supervising Producer) was at the studio producing 2 Stupid Dogs, the home of a lot of future WAC! creators. He also was the only veteran (he had pretty much every creative and production job in the business since he graduated from CalArts in the 60s) who didn’t think I was nuts and enthusiastically volunteered to help work with all the young blood I brought to the company. Larry has worked on almost every one of the 250 shorts I’ve produced over the past decades.

Scott Sassa was my boss at Turner, the guy who took the long shot of convincing me to come into the cartoon business. “What do you have to lose? They haven’t had a hit since The Smurfs [in 1981], so if you do anything good everyone will think you’re a genius!” I’m not all that sure he loved WAC! at first, but he trusted me.

Jed Simmons was my shotgun-wedding husband at Hanna-Barbera, and over time we evolved into an organic partnership. He’d been a business development executive at Turner Broadcasting, and Scott Sassa assigned him to me as studio COO to award him an operating position and to make sure I didn’t screw up the whole thing too badly. He wasn’t exactly sure of what I was up to either, but he became my biggest defender and protector. Jed and I went on to be co-founders of Next New Networks more than 10 years later. 

Of course! The creators’ work speaks for itself, as you’ll see in the compilation below. You’ll recognize the shorts that begat series, but there are a lot of other gems that didn’t spin off that are worth your attention too.

[big-bad-shorty-king]

MY FAVE IS GONNA BE IN THE HANNNA-BARBERA SERISE, SNAGGLPEUSS IS IN THE NEW SHOW YESSSS

[blogdebrinquedo]

Action Figures Retro Space Ghost, Jace, Jan e Blip (Hannna-Barbera)

Das profundezas do espaço, de um mundo oculto, de uma galáxia bem distante, chegam dois set de action figures retro Figures Toy Company do clássico desenho animado Space Ghost, produzido originalmente entre 1966 e 1968 pela Hanna-Barbera. O Space Ghost Hanna Barbera 8-Inch Action Figure vem com uma figura retro no estilo MEGO com roupas de tecido, incluindo capa amarela, vários pontos de…