"An animator is an actor with a pencil."
The official Tumblr of Chuck Jones, the four-time Academy Award recipient and legendary animated film director and creator. Need more? info at ChuckJonesCenter.org
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Jun
Coming June 25-27 to the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity. Be there or be square.
Original layout drawings by Chuck Jones from his 1963 short cartoon, “Transylvania 6-5000”. Graphite and colored pencil on 12 field animation paper, 10.5” x 12.5”.
Who remembers the top character’s name?
11
Jun
Background layout by Oscar Dufau for the 1975 television special, “Rikki Tikki Tavi” directed by Chuck Jones. Jones adapted three stories form Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” for television specials, the other two were “The White Seal” 1975 and “Mowgli’s Brothers” 1976.
07
Jun
Chuck Jones directs Charlie Dog in “A Hound for Trouble” released in 1951.
06
Jun
The point, of course, to drawing lions sleeping and leaping mountain lions is so you can then animate the cutest kitten ever drawn, one that tugs at your heartstrings and puts a smile on your face as it does in this original model sheet from 1951 for the Chuck Jones-directed short film, “Feed the Kitty” released in 1952.
05
Jun
I should probably be saving these for “Caturday”, but they’re just too good to wait that long. “Sleeping lion” ink on sketchbook paper by Chuck Jones, circa early 1960s.
04
Jun
Leaping mountain lion, original ink drawing by Chuck Jones on 12 field MGM animation paper, circa 1970.
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May
Original production cel, gouache on celluloid, from Chuck Jones’s 1948 short cartoon, “My Bunny Lies Over the Ocean.”
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May
The first page of the script from Chuck Jones’s 1950 short cartoon, “The Scarlet Pumpernickel” starring Daffy Duck. “You’re killin’ me!!”
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May
From left: John Burton, producer, Warner Bros. Cartoons; Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, and Friz Freleng, directors, circa late 1950s.
