After DePatie-Freleng ceased production of "Looney Tunes" in 1967, Bill Hendricks was put in charge of production of the newly renamed Warner Bros.-Seven Arts animation studio, and hired veterans such as Alex Lovy and LaVerne Harding from the Walter Lantz studio, Volus Jones and Ed Solomon from Disney, Jaime Diaz who later worked on "The Fairly OddParents" as director, and David Hanan, who previously worked on "Roger Ramjet". Hendricks brought only three of the original "Looney Tunes" veterans to the studio; Ted Bonniscken, Norman McCabe and Bob Givens. The studio's one-shot cartoons from this era were critically panned and are widely considered to be the worst in the studio's history: "Cool Cat", "Merlin the Magic Mouse", "Chimp and Zee" and "Norman Normal", despite the later gaining a large cult following, were said to be witless, crudely animated as well as having poor writing and design because of the extremely low budgets the crew had to work with by this time. Alex Lovy left the studio in 1968 and Robert McKimson took over. McKimson mostly focused on the recurring characters Alex Lovy had created and two of his own creation, Bunny and Claude. The last of the original "Looney Tunes" shorts produced was "Bugged by a Bee" and the last "Merrie Melodies" short was "Injun Trouble", which shares its name with another "Looney Tunes" short from 1938. The Warner Bros.-Seven Arts studio finally shut down in 1969. A total of 1,039 Looney Tunes shorts had been created.