“Storks” will be the second feature of WB.’s new Warner Animation Group, founded in 2011 to replace WB.’s older, disbanded animation studio that was responsible for “Space Jam” (1996) and “Looney Tunes: Back in Action” (2003). Its first feature, the 2014 “The Lego Movie”, was hardly recognized as Warner’s production because, while WAG wrote the story, did all the preproduction, the post-production, and WB. distributed it, the animation itself was produced by Animal Logic in Sydney.
“Storks” is the first feature that WAG produced 100% in-house, and that WB. is emphasizing as not featuring any of the famous Looney Tunes characters that the public has been dismissing as “robbing the graveyard”. (To be fair, WB. has produced other non-Looney Tunes animated features such as the 2001 “Osmosis Jones”, but that featured germs and a blood cell and was “creepy”.) “Storks” will be judged as what WB. can do today without its Looney Tunes characters.
“Storks” will be the second feature of WB.’s new Warner Animation Group, founded in 2011 to replace WB.’s older, disbanded animation studio that was responsible for “Space Jam” (1996) and “Looney Tunes: Back in Action” (2003). Its first feature, the 2014 “The Lego Movie”, was hardly recognized as Warner’s production because, while WAG wrote the story, did all the preproduction, the post-production, and WB. distributed it, the animation itself was produced by Animal Logic in Sydney.
“Storks” is the first feature that WAG produced 100% in-house, and that WB. is emphasizing as not featuring any of the famous Looney Tunes characters that the public has been dismissing as “robbing the graveyard”. (To be fair, WB. has produced other non-Looney Tunes animated features such as the 2001 “Osmosis Jones”, but that featured germs and a blood cell and was “creepy”.) “Storks” will be judged as what WB. can do today without its Looney Tunes characters.
Fred Patten