The 3D Looney Tunes Project WBs

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The 3D Looney Tunes Project
Created & Directed by Erik Dehkhoda
Client - Warner Bros

Me, as a very young Art Student in the 90's and the amazing opportunity that Warner Bros would find me and that I would be Critiqued and Mentored by Chuck Jones, the Master himself. This was my first major Gig, besides MTV. Seize the Opportunity :-)

"After 10 years of absence from the silver screen, the Looney Tunes returned in the compilation film The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie, (Chuck Jones, 1979), later other compilation movies followed suit, in 1987 new shorts were made (continuing production intermittently through 2010) and beginning in 1990, original television series. Owing to the success of these films Warner Bros. produced Space Jam (1996), whose success positively reintroduced the Looney Tunes on film. In 1994 Erik Dehkhoda created and directed the "3D Looney Tunes" Project at Warner Bros. All of the main characters were successfully converted into Digital 3D Models. Erik was mentored by Chuck Jones, who admittedly wanted nothing to do with computers at the time, and the Looney Tunes were introduced in a new form for the CGI revolution taking place. This new technology generated a lot of Press for Warner Bros and the Looney Tunes due to the fact that they were introduced nearly two years before Disney's "Toy Story" was released."