The Looney Tunes Show: More Character Designs Revealed

In May we told you that Warner Bros. would be reinvent the classic Looney Tunes stable of characters as a series of new 3D theatrical short films and a new 26-episode half-hour Cartoon Network television series called The Looney Tunes Show. The pitch for the new series is that Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck will be "odd-couple roommates in a contemporary cul-de-sac" with neighbors Yosemite Sam, Tweety Bird, Sylvester, Marvin the Martian and Porky Pig.

We showed you a preview of the new Bugs and Daffy, but now we have images of the entire Looney Tunes clan from the Licensing Expo (thanks to CartoonBrew). Check them out, after the jump.

Here is the information from the official press release:

This year marks a return to the big screen for Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, two of the most popular Looney Tunes characters of all time. The studio will present animated 3-D shorts featuring the duo before three of its family features, all to be released this year. In each new three-minute cartoon short, Wile E. Coyote is as determined as ever to catch the elusive Road Runner, now with an arsenal of state-of-the-art ACME gadgets to snag his quarry-all in stereographic 3-D. The shorts and films they will appear before are as follows: "Coyote Falls" ("Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore" in theaters July 30); "Fur of Flying" ("Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole" in theaters September 24); "Rabid Rider" ("Yogi Bear" in theaters December 17).

The characters also return to television with The Looney Tunes Show, an all-new half-hour animated television series for Cartoon Network. No longer confined to seven-minute shorts, iconic Looney Tunes characters Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are out of the woods and living in the suburbs among such colorful neighbors as Yosemite Sam, Granny, Tweety and Sylvester. In addition to each episode's main story, The Looney Tunes Show also features cartoons within a cartoon. The Tasmanian Devil, Speedy Gonzales, Marvin the Martian and other classic characters sing original songs in two-minute Merrie Melodies music videos, and the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote are featured in two-and-a-half-minute CG shorts.

The Looney Tunes characters also serve as ambassadors of an active lifestyle for children with PSAs, "better-for-you" food products and a global initiative to get kids moving. WBCP recently announced a partnership with the Ad Council and the Department of Health and Human Services as part of First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" initiative to combat childhood obesity. Looney Tunes characters appear in a series of four public service announcements, currently on-air, alongside some of today's most noteworthy athletes, including stars from the NFL, NBA and Olympics (Drew Brees, Kevin Durant, Tony Hawk and Misty May-Treanor).