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Now and Zen - New Looney Tunes/Wabbit/Bugs!

Season 1, Episode 1b

The Short

This short premiered on September 21, 2015 on Cartoon Network. It was the second short of the first episode, paired with Buddha Bugs. 

Bugs' squirrel buddy, Squeaks, runs into trouble when he disturbs a group of meditating ninja marshmallows. Then Bugs runs afoul of the ninjas when he tries to practice his French horn. The pair face off against the clan.

Bugs is playing a French horn or at least trying to because he doesn't get very far. Musicianship is a classic trait of Bugs. It may also be a brief homage to the Looney Tunes Short "Long-haired Hare".

My Project

I was immediately drawn to the ninja marshmallows. They're cute and silly.

The core of each ninja is cylinder of aluminum foil with magnets on the top and bottom. I kept the magnets in place with clay. For the larger ninjas, I covered the magnets with another piece of foil and a second magnet on each end. Then I coated the ninjas with a layer of peach. I baked them off on a nonmagnetic tray to solidify everything. Before baking, if you put them on anything metal, the magnets will get ripped right out of them. I write from experience because I have a metal desk.

After the peach marshmallows cooled, I added a layer of black with space left open for their face. The trouble I find with working with most black polymer clays is they stain my fingers. Normally, it doesn't bother me to have stained fingers but I didn't want it spread to the peach. I baked the black clad marshmallows off again.

I added the color accents to all of the marshmallows. Then I added white eyeballs and black eyebrows to the larger ninjas. I baked all of the marshmallows one more time.

I painted the pupils on the larger ninjas. I painted the eyeballs, pupils and eyebrows on the mini marshmallow ninjas.