"Animaniacs" Recording Session: April 11, 1995

I doodled the faces of Yakko, Wakko and Dot during the voice recording (and singing) session for "The Big Wrap Party" segment of Animaniacs at Monterey Post in Burbank, California, back on April 11, 1995.  Hard to believe it was 20 years ago!   

I tend to draw during almost every recording session, so these sketches aren't unusual.  What's unique about this set of doodles is that I had everyone at the session sign it.  

So, scattered around these notepad drawings of Yakko, Wakko and Dot are the signatures of just a few of the people who gave voice and sound to the "Animaniacs" series:  engineers Harry Andronis and Patrick Rodman; recording assistant Kelly Foley; casting director Leslie Lamers;  voice director Andrea Romano;  series composer and music director Richard Stone; and the voices of Yakko, Wakko and Dot, namely Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell and Tress MacNeille.  What a group!  I feel very fortunate to have worked with these great talents, and so glad to continue working with Rob, Jess and Tress, among others, on Disney's "The 7D." 

"Tiny Toon Adventures" Quiz #2 Answers -- The Voice Actors

Back row:   Don Messick (Hamton), Candi Milo (Sweetie), Frank Welker (Furrball), Gail Matthias (Shirley the Loon).   

Middle Row:  Maurice LaMarche (Dizzy Devil), Charlie Adler (Buster Bunny), Danny Cooksey (Montana Max), Tress MacNeille (Babs Bunny), Joe Alaskey (Plucky Duck), Kath Soucie (Fifi LaFume).    

Front Row:  Andrea Romano (voice director), Cree Summer (Elmyra, Merry Melody), Tom Ruegger.  

"Tiny Toon Adventures" Quiz #2 -- The Voice Actors -- 1990

Can you name the actors in this photo and the roles they played on "Tiny Toon Adventures"?   That's voice director Andrea Romano, bottom left, and me, bottom right, but everyone else is a member of the vocal cast.   Name the Tiny Toon characters and the wildly talented voice actors who played them!    

Tiny Toon Adventures: Steven's First Emmy

In May 1991, "Tiny Toon Adventures" won the Daytime Emmy for "Outstanding Animated Program."  Our executive producer Steven Spielberg was shooting his feature film "Hook" at that time, so a few members of the crew visited him on the set to present him with his very first Emmy Award.  

In the photo, from left to right:  me, during my brief beard phase, partially obscuring the view of our voice director Andrea Romano;  writer and co-producer Sherri Stoner;  of course,  Steven in the middle;  writer and story editor Paul Dini;  and directors Art Vitello and Rich Arons. 

And, in the background, pirates.  

Steven, Kathy Kennedy and Frank Marshall sent us the following telegram on the night of the Emmy event.   Telegrams were cool!  You sure don't hear much about telegrams anymore.