Poll: Best/Worst COMPUTER Colorized Looney Tunes

[Looney Man]

What would you people reading this thread think are the best and worst
looking computer colorized Looney Tunes, as far as the quality of the colors?


Here are a few of mine:

BEST: PORKY IN WACKYLAND-The colors are bright and cheery,
and VERY to those used in DOUGH FOR THE DO DO

OTHER PICKS- PORKY'S LAST STAND, PORKY IN THE NORTHWOODS,
PORKY AT THE CROCADERO. Actually most cartoons from the 1995 batch look pretty good, consideringthe colors are not real.


WORST: PORKY'S BADTIME STORY- This so-called "Colorized" print
hardly contains any "color" at all. Lots, and LOTS of gray tones remain.
Also, PORKY'S NAUGHTY NEPHEW- Again, to little color, and WAY to much brown tones. That's the general problem with the 1992 batch, the exactly
OPPOSITE of the initial 1990 batch wher the was often to MUCH color.


Okay, now YOU all pick some best and worst.

[J Lee]

What would you people reading this thread think are the best and worst
looking computer colorized Looney Tunes, as far as the quality of the colors?


Here are a few of mine:

BEST: PORKY IN WACKYLAND-The colors are bright and cheery,
and VERY to those used in DOUGH FOR THE DO DO

OTHER PICKS- PORKY'S LAST STAND, PORKY IN THE NORTHWOODS,
PORKY AT THE CROCADERO. Actually most cartoons from the 1995 batch look pretty good, consideringthe colors are not real.


WORST: PORKY'S BADTIME STORY- This so-called "Colorized" print
hardly contains any "color" at all. Lots, and LOTS of gray tones remain.
Also, PORKY'S NAUGHTY NEPHEW- Again, to little color, and WAY to much brown tones. That's the general problem with the 1992 batch, the exactly
OPPOSITE of the initial 1990 batch wher the was often to MUCH color.


Okay, now YOU all pick some best and worst.

"Porky and Gabby" has the same problem as all the 1992 colorized cartoons -- too much reliance on browns and greens -- but in the early part of the cartoon (or at least in the print CN and Nick have used) the colors on the main characters are too strong and they literally glow out of their bodies, as though the TV's brightness control is turned up too high. Very annoying.

[stevea]

"Porky and Gabby" has the same problem as all the 1992 colorized cartoons -- too much reliance on browns and greens -- but in the early part of the cartoon (or at least in the print CN and Nick have used) the colors on the main characters are too strong and they literally glow out of their bodies, as though the TV's brightness control is turned up too high. Very annoying.

Food for thought: you can get SOME color by simply leaving the color burst on in a film chain.

[cabe624]

I'd pick Porky and Daffy as the worst looking computer-colorized cartoon. It's full of DVNR line smearing. Porky's Pastry Pirates has some bad color choices too. Another one I would pick is The Case Of the Stuttering Pig. Good color choices, but DVNR is also apparent, especially in the scene where the Lawyer Goodwill character is reading the will by candlelight. Thankfully, I don't think that any computer colorized cartoon looks as bad as a redrawn.

[Patrick McCart]

You Ought To Be In Pictures is the greatest colorized cartoon... Between the superb color choices, attention to detail, and the mix of animation and live-action...

The worst is probably A Coy Decoy.

[Senbei Norimaki]

I consider all computer colorized films bad. It's like asking the question "What is the best Pan Scanned film."

[billyjoelfan]

i would have to say the best colorized short would be the live action one what has porky and leon at the The Termite Terrace Trading (forgot the title) that in my opion would be the best cc LT short that i've seen

[candy17]

i would have to say the best colorized short would be the live action one what has porky and leon at the The Termite Terrace Trading (forgot the title) that in my opion would be the best cc LT short that i've seen
The title is You Ought To Be In Pictures. That's the one that's part cartoon, part live action (it's way before Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the all-around despised Cool World, and Looney Tunes: Back In Action, so you can imagine how surprised I was when I learned that there were animated/live-action shorts made in the 1930's and 40's).

I think the best computer colorized cartoon is You Ought To Be In Pictures too, but isn't it time-compressed or did CN do that?

The worst has to be a toss-up between Wholly Smoke (that Porky cartoon with the cigarettes, although that might be a redrawn color version) and this really early LT cartoon that aired on the ToonHeads episode "The Boys From Kansas" and CN aired the color version of that cartoon. Wasn't it called, "Smile Darn Ya Smile" or something?)

[Jack]

The worst has to be a toss-up between Wholly Smoke (that Porky cartoon with the cigarettes, although that might be a redrawn color version) and this really early LT cartoon that aired on the ToonHeads episode "The Boys From Kansas" and CN aired the color version of that cartoon. Wasn't it called, "Smile Darn Ya Smile" or something?)
CN pretty much just airs the redrawn version of "Wholly Smoke," even though they have the computer colorized version. So, you most likely are thinking of the redrawn.

"Smile, Darn ya, Smile" was never computer colorized, so that was also a redrawn.

[J Lee]

CN pretty much just airs the redrawn version of "Wholly Smoke," even though they have the computer colorized version. So, you most likely are thinking of the redrawn.


"Wholly Smoke" was part of the 1990 colorized series, and like almost all of those, tends towards both too many and inappropriate colors, in some cases using the same colors that were chosen for the 1967-68 redrawns.

It really wasn't until the last series of colorized cartoons came out in 1995 that anyone really seems to have given much thought to matching the colors in the Looney Tunes with the type of colors the Warner artists were using at the same time with the Merrie Melodies. Of course, they did get the basics right -- Porky, pink; Daffy, black; grass, green; sky, blue -- which the redrawns at time has trouble remembering to do, but the 1990 colorized cartoons stick color into scenes where it shouldn't be and at times take your eyes off the action, while the 1992 ones seem to be in direct reaction to that, and at times use so little color variation at all you kind of wonder why they even bothered in the first place.

[Thad Komorowski]

"Porky in Wackyland" and "You Ought to Be in Pictures" are probably the best computer colorized versions of any cartoons... It's also the only time I actually... *gulp*... PREFER watching the colorized versions! :shame:

The worst has to go to "Porky Pig's Feat", "Coy Decoy", and "The Daffy Duckaroo"... All three are barely significant from their 'redrawn' counterparts...

[Lee Glover]

I only have six computer colourised Looney Tunes in my collection. One of these cartoons is "You Ought To Be In Pictures", and it actually looks very good.

I'm less than impressed with the colourisation of "Porky Pig's Feat", but it doesn't look as worse as the colourised version of "The Impatient Patient", which I have on the Cartoon Crazys Sci-Fi DVD. With the colour choices WB made for the cartoon, I thought I was watching the redrawn version until I saw the original "iris-out" at the end.

[Nick]

I'm less than impressed with the colourisation of "Porky Pig's Feat", but it doesn't look as worse as the colourised version of "The Impatient Patient", which I have on the Cartoon Crazys Sci-Fi DVD. With the colour choices WB made for the cartoon, I thought I was watching the redrawn version until I saw the original "iris-out" at the end.
I remember seeing the colourized version of "The Impatient Patient" on TV. Daffy had a purple ring and was browny grey.

[Billy]

I've only ever seen one, and that's 'You Ought To Be In Pictures'. If I didn't know better, I'd think it was MADE in colour.

[Pietro]

My pick for the best would have to be "Porky in Wackyland." But the worst, IMHO, has to be "Porky and Teabiscuit," the main rasoning being it seems the colorization process came out too blotchy, most likely because WB's print is like that.

-Pietro:daffy:

[Daffyfan2003]

Hmmmm. I never thought of that. The only problem I have with computer colorized cartoons is that sometimes it's hard to picture what they original looked like. Other than that, I thought Warner Bros. did a good job with.... Oh! "Porky Pig's Feat" is kind of lame on CN with the missing titles and everything, but other than that most computer colorized cartoons are okay.

[J. J. Hunsecker]

I think all the computer colorized cartoons look bad.

[candy17]

I remember seeing the colourized version of "The Impatient Patient" on TV. Daffy had a purple ring and was browny grey.
Was this on CN because I remember CN airing that version. If it wasn't CN, then it had to have either been The WB or Nickelodeon (or a local station).

[rodney]

That may have been the redrawn.