Dave Alvarez, one of the character designers for Space Jam: A New Legacy, was left uncredited in the movie.
In a friends-only Facebook post that he later screenshotted and shared publicly via his Twitter account, Alvarez expressed serious disappointment and frustration that his work on the film, much of which made it into the final product, was left uncredited. With an image of his various design files for the film attached, Alvarez wrote, "I just want to put this out there... Last night me and my family sat down to watch Space Jam. My kids were excited to see the movie 'dad helped make' only to find out that...my name was omitted from the final credits."
"At first I thought that perhaps I missed it but...no...we checked 3 times and I'm just not there," Alvarez said. "I feel devastated. I worked hard in summer 2019 to help the crew with a lot of designs that were actually USED in the final product. When I began my career, one of my goals was to see my name on the big screen...and that moment was taken off from me and it will never come back. My kids were frustrated and so am I right now."
Alvarez has been involved with many Looney Tunes projects over the past three decades. He illustrated his first variant cover for the first issue of DC's Looney Tunes comic series in 1994 and has since worked as a penciler, colorist, inker and general artist on various Looney Tunes comics for DC, including the Harley Quinn/Gossamer and Jonah Hex/Yosemite Sam crossover specials.
On the TV animation side of things, he has been credited as a character designer for the current Looney Tunes Cartoons series on HBO Max and the 2011-2014 Cartoon Network series The Looney Tunes Show. He was also a storyboard clean-up artist on The Looney Tunes Show and the 2015-2020 Boomerang series Wabbit!/New Looney Tunes and worked on reboots of other classic cartoons for Warner Bros. Animation such as Tom and Jerry and The Flintstones.
Space Jam: A New Legacy is currently in theaters, recently dethroning Marvel's Black Widow at the top of the box office this weekend. Animation fans have both taken note of and share Alvarez's frustrations are using the hashtags #CreditDave and #CreditDaveAlvarez on Twitter in hopes of pressuring Warner Bros. to credit Alvarez properly.
Source: Twitter