![]() ![]() With Animaniacs having more of the “rubberhose” style, the animators had more flexibility, if you’ll pardon the pun, with how the characters looked. I feel like Tiny Toons suffered from this variable quality more than Animaniacs simply because the difference in the style of the characters was more noticeable. These drawings were compiled by Atariboy2600 on Deviant Art. Luckily they weren’t called back to animate Animaniacs. Tokyo Movie Shinsha (upper left) is hailed to be the better animation studio, while Kennedy Cartoons (lower left) is decidedly the worst. For the differing Animaniacs animation styles, check out this video. To get an idea of how the character designs differed in Tiny Toons see below. Add to the fact that many of these studios were placed in different parts of the world, from Japan, to South Korea, to the US, this meant that the quality and even the art style between each studio was different. Tiny Toons had about seven different studios working on it, and Animaniacs had eight, with similar studios employed for both cartoons. Unfortunately, this meant a lot more work had to be put into each episode, and with over 60 episodes ordered for the first season of both shows, this meant that the work had to be split up into multiple animation studios. More frames means more drawings in each episode making the movement more fluid and natural. Steven Spielberg wanted to up the ante with regards to how the medium was portrayed and so during production a lot more frames of animation were added per episode. This also made Animaniacs a lot more consistent, because it knew to keep things simple and slap-stick, just like its 1930s predecessors.Ī lot of work went into both shows regarding their animation. It also made sure to never waste a punchline, and finished off its cartoons at a place that made sense. Animaniacs on the other hand did a much better job with its pacing and the cartoons had a much more easy-to-follow arc of beginning-middle-end. Even its punchlines were often delivered very abruptly and there was very little wrap-up at the end of an episode, so when the credits rolled I often said “Oh, I guess it’s over now”. I felt often, while re-watching it that the show was just throwing stuff at the screen and it almost never calmed down. Not only that, but it made the show’s pacing absolutely terrible. Because the show ranged from slap-stick to comedy-adventure so often, it was hard to tell how seriously or not one was supposed to take certain episodes. Though Tiny Toons had a wider range of stories it could tell, as it could sometimes showed more standard stories rather than pure comedy, it also somewhat suffered from this. The series also has a variety of other cartoons attached to it including “The Goodfeathers”, “Slappy the Squirrel”, and the infamous “Pinky and the Brain” (this last one eventually gaining enough popularity to become its own series). Because they were “totally out of control” they were locked away in the studio’s water tower never to be released… That is until they escaped to bring us this show. Their origin story describes them as having been created in the black and white era of cartoons of the 1930s. The main characters of this show are the Warner brothers, Yakko and Wakko, and the Warner sister, Dot. In Animaniacs we have much more of a purely anthological way of storytelling, with smatterings of common gags and wrap-ups to connect each individual cartoon. Out of the following categories of storytelling, animation, music, and humor, I will try to line up the significant differences between the two shows in terms of style and quality. In short, I was surprised to find that after growing up, my preference for the shows had reversed, and I believe that Animaniacs mirrored the classic cartoons of the past much more accurately than Tiny Toons.ĭespite the two shows having many similarities in premise and origin, they managed to remain distinct in how they presented themselves. I recently gave both shows a re-watch to see how they hold up viewing them as adult. As a child, I really enjoyed these shows, but I distinctly recall preferring Tiny Toons to Animaniacs. They both were nominated for and won numerous awards during their run. As we can see, these two shows are extremely similar in their production alone and had similar themes, and even similar theme songs. These two shows were Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs. In the early 1990s two popular animated shows came out that were created by Tom Ruegger, “presented by” Steven Spielberg, had some of the same voice actors*, and which tried to bring back the same style of slapstick comedy that classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons were famous for.
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