Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Behind the Scenes: The Making of Huckleberry Hound for Our YouTube Channel

Huckleberry Hound is a made-for-TV cartoon that William Hanna and Joseph Barbera produced for their company, Hanna-Barbera. It ran from 1958 to 1962, with a total of 57 episodes airing in syndication. Each episode followed the ongoing adventures of Huck as he jumps from job to job and sings "Oh My Darling Clementine."

When we started creating characters for our YouTube channel, Huck's head was made after Ruff and Reddy. We eventually made his body too, but due to limited blue clay, Huck had his body sculpted in a darker shade of blue. However, it doesn't look too bad. Huck is an iconic character we wanted to bring to life, so we worked on him as the third character.

The first Huck story we produced for the channel, titled "What a Magic Dog!," was written by me. Unfortunately, I no longer have the original storyboard as it was lost over time. The plot followed Huck as he performed a magic trick to make himself disappear. The second story, titled "The Job as a Mailman," wasn't written by me, but it featured Huck working as a postman and delivering mail to a man. In the final story, "Good Ol' Huck," which I also didn't write, Huck sings "Oh My Darling Clementine" before a man asks him to stop singing.

We are still in the process of writing more Huck stories, as well as other Hanna-Barbera stories that you may see in the future. However, we haven't written a Huck story in a while as of 2023, but I hope we can create more in the near future.