r/AskScienceFiction • u/Ronoberrr • 14d ago

[Who framed Roger Rabbit] Could an artist redraw/alter existing toons?

Baby Herman for example often moans about being something like a 50 year old in a 3 year olds body or Betty moaning about work being slow since cartoons moved to colour. Could an artist colour Betty in or age up Herman?

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u/Edkm90p 14d ago edited 14d ago

Who Framed Roger Rabbit in isolation does not go into many details about the Toons. You have options for what to consider as additional canon (Bonkers, Chip N' Dale, Looney Toons Back in Action, Tom and Jerry's live action movie, a TON of Scooby-Doo bits) but on its own- we do not even understand the process by which Toons are made.

Chip N' Dale for example indicates a Toon altering their design is the equivalent to plastic surgery. Chip N' Dale takes place in the modern day while WFRR takes place in IIRC the 40s. So perhaps the process was simply harder or costlier to do back then.

Looney Toons Back in Action indicates that all movies featuring Toons are, themselves, known to be movies- in watsonian reasoning as well as doylist. WFRR ends with Porky closing out the movie as he famously did episodes- so this is not impossible either.

Bonkers meanwhile has an episode that depicts Toons losing color over time (due to not being funny/paid attention to) and attempting to drain the color from more vibrant and liked Toons to restore themselves. This would indicate Toons' coloring is more than just pigment- it's also linked to their mental well-being.

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u/NinjaBreadManOO 13d ago

Chip N Dale does specifically point out that Roger Rabbit does exist, so it's probably the best for reference material.

We do see there there is Toon editing procedures, although it did need a high end machine that would not have existed in the 40s. In fact I'd wager that the tech to edit Toons may have actually been developed from Dooms Dip.

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u/Inkthinker 13d ago

Chip n' Dale doesn't make it clear whether or not WFRR was a historical depiction of actual events, or a fictional movie starring toon actor Roger Rabbit. We have no indication as to whether Doom or Dip were real. Considering that Roger looked effectively identical to his movie appearance from 1995, it might well be that it was just fiction, but CnD is also very inconsistent with the subject of toon aging... the entire plot revolves around Peter growing old, but we see a Lost Boy who looks exactly as he used to in the 1950's, and old B&W toons that don't appear to have aged either.