I was a writer on The TOM AND JERRY KIDS SHOW for the entire duration of the series.
Being an artist, when I created a character for a cartoon sometimes I would also sketch a rough design and the producer would use it. Two of the characters even starred in a couple of their own cartoons.
Here are are few examples.
Cartoons Copyright Hanna-Barbera Productions and Turner Entertainment.
Slowpoke Antonio, Created, Designed and Written by: 'Pat' Ventura.
Lightning Bolt The Super Squirrel, Created, Designed and
Written By: 'Pat' Ventura.
Bernie Bird and Kyle Cat, Created and Written by 'Pat Ventura.
Here's a few other cartoons from the show.
All cartoons Copyright Hanna-Barbera Productions and Turner Entertainment.
Wow! Always cool to see your earlier work.... do you still have any of your boards or rough sketches for these, Pat? Would be cool to see as well!
ReplyDeleteCharles, Thanks for the kind words. Sorry I do not have any of my sketches from these.
ReplyDeleteSad if you didn't get those back. I'm sure some collect out there in America probably owns some of those through whatever nefarious means to obtain it from the start.
Deletei heard that you worked before in Ruby-Spears, and the shows of this studio are really.......BAD (rubik, turbo teen, rambo, etc.)
ReplyDeleteJust check out his IMDB page (all of it very much either forgotten or slightly memorable)!
DeleteThe 1980's was just the worst time to be an animator until Roger Rabbit came out and the playing field changed for the better.
More cartoons,please :)
ReplyDeleteGad, the memories come flooding back. Am I right that you also write a "Blast-Off Buzzard" short, giving the once-silent character a voice in a final airing from his "C B Bears" days?
ReplyDeleteChris, yes I wrote a Blast-Off Buzzard cartoon, "DESTRUCTIVE CONSTRUCTION" for THE TOM AND JERRY KIDS SHOW. Blast-Off chases the snake out of the desert up onto the steel girders of a tall building under construction.
ReplyDeleteGiving them voices was not my idea, it was the producers.
Wouldn't surprise me there. Decisions from the higher ups always get in the way of a good cartoon I feel.
DeleteBy the way, I noticed you were one of five guys on the story for "Yogi the Easter Bear". I don't recall it being all that great personally but love to see if you can recall whatever idea you had for that which got used or not).
So many posts, hope I can answer them all. YOGI THE EASTER BEAR could have been wilder than it turned out but the director/producer made it the way he wanted.
ReplyDeleteCan't remember exactly what I did on it, it was a long time ago. All the wild stuff, like when Ranger Smith chases Yogi, in the speed boat bashing up Smith were my gags. A lot of the egg factory with the bad guys and the bunny, with the bad guy showing his underwear. All that climax chase with the truck, chicken eggs machine gun. That's all I can remember.