Bugs Bunny: Back In Drag

WB Marketing Art, LOONEY TUNES, Bugs Bunny.

This is another old piece revisited as more Photoshop fun. I have no clue if WB Marketing ever used this at all, and I can't recall the details of the assignment. But the challenge was to depict Bugs Bunny in drag, a gag the character often pulled in those classic cartoon shorts, getting a laugh every time. For this exercise, I tried to emulate the traditional cel animation style with the flatly rendered character against a more dimensional background, lavishly painted. Rather than paint it myself, I grabbed a suitable cartoon background from online to better facilitate the collaborative effect. To further emulate those classic cartoons that seamlessly blended animation with live-action elements, I grabbed the tree swing from online. As in MGM's ANCHORS AWEIGH (1945), and Disney/Amblin's WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988), the combination of real and animated creates a wondrously disorienting contrast which pops the cartoon forward perfectly.