![]() ![]() Ultimately, though, with Plucky Duck on Tiny Toon Adventures and Disney having Huey, Dewey and Louie on DuckTales and Darkwing Duck, Spielberg and Ruegger felt that there too many ducks for afternoon television, so they played around with the design, before settling on the sort of almost amorphous 1930s design that became so famous. He was roughly based on how one of Ruegger's kids was going through a phase where he smacked people a lot.Įventually, though, the idea of a straight man being the lead was considered to be too boring, so they decided that there wouldn't be a straight man and it would just be three crazy characters, with Dot eventually taking over the role of the third sibling (which also allowed them to diversify the genders a bit). He was actually intended to be the lead character, an ill-tempered young guy who had to put up with his nitwit brothers. Yakky and Wakky were basically the same general types of characters as their later Yakko and Wakko versions, but Smakky was an original concept. ![]() The three brothers were named Wakky, Yakky and Smakky. Once we had a handle on their origin story, the designs came together fairly quickly. Over the course of a week or two, Ken, Alfred, Lynn Naylor, a few other artists and I were involved in turning these ducks into "the generic 30's-style cartoon characters" (the Warner brothers and their sister Dot) that we've come to know. This particular drawing of "the three ducks in the green rings" was done by Ken Boyer and/or Alfred Gimeno and has the influence of both. ![]() (I got the job - as an assistant animator. The three ducks in "the rings" were based on characters from an animated cartoon I made in my film school days: "The Premiere of Platypus Duck." Spent two years animating, painting and shooting this 11-minute "epic," then used this film as the showpiece in my job-interview with Bill Hanna at Hanna-Barbera. He once described the drawing above as follows: Ruegger had done a project with ducks in the past, so when he came up with the idea of the lead characters in Animaniacs (which he patterned after his three young sons), he went with ducks. ![]()
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