When: March - August 2003

How did we do it?
Daffy Duck was brought to life in the 1930s by Tex Avery and Bob Clampett. In the \'50s, Chuck Jones evolved Daffy into Duck Dodgers as a spoof on the character Buck Rogers. In 2003, Warner Brothers Animation in collaboration with Cartoon Network developed the property into a television show that airs weekly on Cartoon Network. At the beginning of every show, the Duck Dodgers Open Title Sequence is broadcast to introduce the show and its characters.

Funny Garbage designed the Duck Dodgers Open Title Sequence to blend the classic characters with a modern feel a la James Bond, In Like Flint and Modesty Blaise in order to update the Duck Dodgers story. A large challenge of the sequence was to visually narrate how Daffy Duck transformed into Duck Dodgers within a very small amount of time. Creating a balance between the classic and modern was achieved by combining painted graphics with treated line art and placing those graphical elements within the vastness of outer space.

Funny Garbage utilized character line art and treated it to fit aesthetically into the sequence. Paintings of each of the characters were also incorporated to establish their personalities. Lastly, CGI footage from the actual show was incorporated into the animation.