The Infamous Hampton Pig
Most of the Tiny Toons characters were designed by Ken Boyer, but nobody could get a design for Hampton (then called Hamlet) that Spielberg liked. So there was a contest - everybody who could draw, drew pigs for fifteen minutes and then all of the artwork was faxed to Amblin. My design won with Spielberg, but lost with the crew - I got a lot of flack for how big his head was, and how small his limbs were - making him difficult to pose.In the end, someone else did all of the Hampton drawings for merchandising - I was told that I didn't have a feel for drawing the character.
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Cool story, I always wondered why he looked that way..ha. Where was the studio located...at Universal?
-Jeremy
What a great sence of design you have throughout your blog. Really nice.
Warner Bros. TV Animation was in Sherman Oaks (southern California), right next to the S.O. Galleria. We worked in the Imperial Bank building.
Thanks for the design praise!
Yes, the bank building; everyone still waiting to be "moved onto the lot", right, Jeff? Remember that? And once Jean said another possibility was all of us moving into--the Safari Inn?! wt-?
Oh, that's right! We were allll supposed to move onto the lot. Riiiiiight. Ha!
I never heard about the Safari Inn option, though. That would've been really awkward, but kind of cool.
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