Bradylama said:
Someone plays Devil's Advocate.
Also featured in that link is another horrible concept art.
All are the same poor excuses for people who have little talent yet have to limp on someone else's work like a crutch. Chuck Jones did a poor job with Tom and Jerry, but he certainly didn't deserve having been dug up, skullfucked, and pissed into the eye sockets.
Without completely reinventing the characters, plan on them being little more than the "New" Tom and Jerry (that wad of shit in the 70's), or the atrocious "Baby Loony Tunes", which makes Baby Muppetts look like MENSA graduates. And that show almost tempted me to grab the .45 Remote.
In theory, someone who works in their preferred medium or presentation should be preferable, yet they are trying to both reinvent and keep the basis of the characters. That, in every sense of the term, is very contradictory with significant change one way or another. It is either one way or another, not some catchy quirk that will soon wear out as the new varnish of personality wears quicky thin.
Theoretically, the man who brought Wile E. Coyote to the screen should be suitable for a similar production, Tom and Jerry. This was not the case; in Chuck Jones' hands, Tom was just a sadistic twat, and Jerry was a giggling, lucky moron, with visual gags that were obviously from the rejected Wile E. Coyote pile. In a few episodes, Chuck scrapped well over a decade of character development.
"It's a rash of negative publicity which continues to thrive to this very day; on The Internet, hardly a conversation in any animation-themed newsgroup, blog or message board goes by without somebody taking cheap shots at the 1975 version of Tom & Jerry."
http://www.1975tomjerry.50megs.com
That is quite true, because to the fans of the episodes that had character development, those shows were indeed "cheap shots".
Yet another line in a series of cheap concept rapes. At least Duck Dodgers was similar to both the original characters and the original shorts of Daffy as Duck Dodgers, so it was easy to expand upon that without ruffling too many feathers, so to speak. Trying to reinvent Bugs Bunny would be akin to trying to reinvent Superman.
Oh, shit...no luck there, either.
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