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The Inside Bugs - New Looney Tunes

Wabbit/Bugs!

Season 1, Episode 2a

The Short

Bugs picks up Yosemite just after he robbed a bank. He drives Yosemite to his destination, to the brink of madness and into the arms of the law.

This short continues with the same dynamic as the first episode short, "Buddha Bugs" where Bugs meets Yosemite just after he robbed a Buddhist temple or monastery.

This short reminds me of "Bugs and Thugs" from 1954. Bugs Bunny gets into Rocky and Mugsy's getaway car right after they robbed a bank. I like to see Rocky but I'm glad he's not in this short because if Rocky and Muggsy were in it in place of Yosemite it would feel less like an homage and more like a remake.

My Project

I created a polymer magnet that now resides on my fridge.

I folded a piece of foil into a rectangle in roughly the shape and sign I wanted. I put a magnet in the center of the aluminum foil. I mashed the white clay around it until I got it covered.

I worked on a notebook to stop the magnet from getting ripped out by my desk. I should have made sure it was a fresh sheet of paper because I had written a note in pencil and pencil marks wound up all over the white clay. 

I baked this on a nonmetallic dish. When it came out, I gave it a fresh coat of white. Once the paint dried, I started drawing in the details. This was the point that I made my second avoidable mistake. I used red marker to draw in the letters. 

I painted in colors then I painted the black outlines in over that. The red marker didn't make the letters dark enough so I went over them with red paint. I went in with some white paint to highlight areas. 

Then I glazed it and realized my mistake with the marker as the red spread. After the glaze dried, I went in with red and white to clean it up. Then I finished it with a second coat of glaze. Fortunately, it didn't bleed again.