"I was just driven to make cartoons, wanted to, needed to, and was given great opportunities along the way. I tend not to be a very reflective person. In retrospect, I can see that the HB cartoons of my childhood meant a great deal to me, and I truly did want to capture some of that magic. A half hour cartoon variety show with stars and various segments. I feel very fortunate that I was able to team up with a cornucopia of talented people to make Animanaics happen". - Tom Ruegger
The Animaniacs have always been an inspiration to me since my childhood, growing up it was one of my favourite television cartoon shows. The humor was spot on, it was educational and it was animated fantastically. However, the thing that stuck out to me the most was that it was a very self aware cartoon, it broke the forth wall numerous times. Even during the opening, they jump right out of the light box into the animation studio.
Warner Brothers animation is completely different to Disney animation in my personal opinion, Warner Brothers tried to make cartoons that tailored for both adults and children and crammed them with jokes fit for both, however Disney cartoons were very safe and kept child friendly. As I said in a previous post, Disney has it's own world with it's own physics, like wise with Warner brothers. However, the difference with Animaniacs is that their own world and physics only apply to the Warner Brothers because they are "cartoons", no other character can squash, stretch and break the laws of physics in the animation.
This is one of the big things I want to get across in my own practice as I want the cartoon character I create to be able to have it's own world with it's own physics, whereas the second character (the animator) will not have that attribute and can only follow the laws of our world.
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