#modernized

Since the 10th anniversary of Hanna-Barbera Beyond is just a week away, I wanted to start a series of modern redesigns of Hanna-Barbera characters, complete with some info on what they’re like now.

And to start this off, we have arguably the face of Hanna-Barbera himself and the first of the company's big three: Yogi Bear.

For this modernized version, Yogi isn’t very different from his original counterpart.

He still hangs out with his best buddy Boo Boo, and constantly drives Ranger Smith crazy with his daily schemes to steal food from visitors at Jellystone National Park.

For his design, I wanted to make Yogi look more like a real-life grizzly bear.

Or at least a cartoonish version of one.

Hench why he has a more board-shouldered and bulky build.

When doing the design, I utilized images of real-life grizzlies for references, as well as some animated bears from Disney.

Particularly Baloo from The Jungle Book and Kenai from Brother Bear.

As for Yogi's outfit, I kept it pretty much the same since let's be real, it's so simple that it doesn't really need any sort of updating.

To end this off, here's some images from the process of making this piece.

"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer to you myself again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant."

PERIODDDD. Cue the tears because I freaking bawled my eyes out. The quote was longer than that, but I get it, ok? You love Anne Elliot, Captain Frederick Wentworth. That never changed.

This modern take on Jane Austen's book is actually just the third motion picture with a breaking-the-fourth-wall style that I liked (the first being Fleabag and the second being Wandavision). No cringe at all. Maybe because the protagonist's inner monologues were better understood that way—letting the viewers see and feel from the protagonist herself. It also helped that Dakota Johnson has a natural weepy/crying voice that added to the feels. (There's something about uttering words in the midst of breaking down, to the point of your voice breaking as well. TT TT)