Sun Valley Freeze - New Looney Tunes

Season 1, Episode 2B

Premiered September 21, 2015

The Short

Bugs is traveling in his traditional underground way. He finds that Bigfoot is following him. Bigfoot and Bugs are then attacked by a bunch of agents in white hazmat suits with laser sighted laser weapons. Bugs has to save the naive Bigfoot. Bigfoot constantly misunderstands the situation and injures Bugs but nothing deters Bugs from his efforts to save him. 

This short is the debut of Bigfoot and the Hazmats though from the dialog it is not the first meeting between Bugs Bunny and the characters. I could have done without the "as you know" dialog explaining Bigfoot's relationship with the Hazmats. The episode illustrated the dynamic between the characters fine. But I am an adult and I guess they explained it for the benefit of child viewers (although I think the children didn't need the overly explained explanation).

Overall, this is a great short. I liked Bigfoot, I loved the Hazmats. The Hazmats are as good as Elmer and Yosemite as gun wielding, dimwitted antagonists in my opinion.

The Project

I wrestled with what I wanted to make and how I wanted to make it. I found a piece of wood in the wood box (a less than clever but apt name) that was the perfect shape for Bigfoot. 

As I begun carving into the wood, I found it to be the hardest wood I had worked with. Considering I can count the number of carving projects I've done on one hand, that's not saying much. I also found that I could only carve in one direction on each side, otherwise big splinters would come off. I came upon the solutions of sand paper and soaking the wood in water. Both methods helped and I made my Bigfoot.