Which 'Oscar' nominated animator helped create 'Bugs Bunny', 'Daffy Duck' and the 'Road Runner'?
"""The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya"" consists almost entirely of a poorly made film that the protagonists created, complete with Kyon's typical, sarcastic commentary. Chuck Jones's 1953 cartoon ""Duck Amuck"" shows Daffy Duck trapped in a cartoon that an unseen animator repeatedly manipulates. At the end, it is revealed that the whole cartoon was being controlled by Bugs Bunny. The ""Duck Amuck"" plot was essentially replicated in one of Jones' later cartoons, ""Rabbit Rampage"" (1955), in which Bugs Bunny turns out to be the victim of the sadistic animator (Elmer Fudd). A similar plot was also included in an episode of"
"Chuck Jones Charles Martin Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, filmmaker, cartoonist, author, artist, and screenwriter, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the ""Looney Tunes"" and ""Merrie Melodies"" shorts. He wrote, produced, and/or directed many classic animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Pepé Le Pew, Porky Pig, Michigan J. Frog, the Three Bears, and a slew of other Warner characters. After his career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions, and began producing cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,"
"Tex Avery Frederick Bean ""Tex"" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, director, cartoonist and voice actor, known for producing and directing animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation. His most significant work was for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, where he was crucial in the creation and evolution of famous animated characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, George and Junior and Chilly Willy. Gary Morris described Avery's innovative approach:Above all, [Avery] steered the Warner Bros. house style away from Disney-esque sentimentality and made"
"Tex Avery Frederick Bean ""Tex"" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, director, cartoonist and voice actor, known for producing and directing animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation. His most significant work was for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, where he was crucial in the creation and evolution of famous animated characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, George and Junior and Chilly Willy. Gary Morris described Avery's innovative approach:Above all, [Avery] steered the Warner Bros. house style away from Disney-esque sentimentality and made"
"Darrell Van Citters Darrell Van Citters (born October 29, 1956) is an American director, animator, and author, perhaps best known for directing the animated television series ""Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi"" and directing popular ""Looney Tunes"" cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety Bird and Foghorn Leghorn. He partnered with Ashley Postelwaite in 1992 to form Renegade Animation. He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Darrell Van Citters began his career in animation training at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts in the Disney-sponsored Character Animation program. While still at Cal Arts,"
"1979's ""The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie"", which was composed by Dean Elliott). The film was released to theaters by Warner Bros. on September 24, 1988. The film opens with the short ""The Night of the Living Duck"" (1988). This short is exclusive to this film. The story of the film serves as a continuation/re-working of ""Daffy Dilly"". Street corner salesman Daffy tries to make a pitch to reclusive billionaire and ""ailing buzzsaw baron"" J.P. Cubish (a dog)---who has offered wealth to anyone who can make him laugh before he passes on---only to be stymied by Cubish's butler (also a dog)."
"Tad Stones Tad Stones (born 1952, Burbank, California) is an American animator, screenwriter, producer and director, best known for his work for The Walt Disney Company, where he worked from 1974 to 2003. His most notable credits for Disney include creating, writing and producing the animated series ""Darkwing Duck"" and producing ""Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers"", ""Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears"", ""Aladdin"" and ""Buzz Lightyear of Star Command"". His latest project is as a storyboard artist on the animated series ""Bob's Burgers"", which premiered in January 2012 on Fox. Born in Burbank, California, Stones started with Disney training under"
"and later released to VHS and DVD by Warner Home Video on October 22, 2002. The film chronicles the career of legendary ""Looney Tunes"" and ""Merrie Melodies"" director, Chuck Jones; from his start in the animation industry as a cel washer; to director of shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Pepé Le Pew, Michigan J. Frog, Marvin the Martian, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Hubie and Bertie, and the Three Bears, among others; the animation process consisting of: storyboards, backgrounds, dialogue, expressions, comedic timing, sound effects, and music; discussions on select Jones films such"
"of three animated shorts by Jones to receive this honor (the others are 1957's ""What's Opera, Doc?"" and 1955's ""One Froggy Evening""). Jones has the distinction of being the only director () with three animated shorts in the registry. The cartoon's plot was essentially replicated in one of Jones' later cartoons, ""Rabbit Rampage"" (1955), in which Bugs Bunny turns out to be the victim of the sadistic animator (Elmer Fudd). A similar plot was also included in the episode ""Duck's Reflucks"" of ""Baby Looney Tunes,"" in which Bugs was the victim, Daffy was the animator, and it was made on"
"Comedy/Adventure Show"" (1979). He died in January 1981 aged 66 at Van Nuys in California. Manuel Perez (animator) Manuel ""Manny"" Perez (17 June 1914 – 18 January 1981) was a Mexican American animator and animation director whose career spanned 40 years, from the 1940s to the 1980s, and best known for his work on the Warner Bros. animated shorts, working on such cartoons as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Later in his career he worked on Fritz the Cat and ""The Lord of the Rings"". Born in 1914 in Morenci, Arizona, in 1917 his family moved to Los Angeles where"
"United Artists, the previous owner of the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library), led Jones to produce ""The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie"" for Warner Bros. in 1979. This film blended classic ""Looney Tunes""/""Merrie Melodies"" shorts with newly produced wraparounds of Bugs Bunny introducing each cartoon. Warner Bros. responded to the success of this film by reestablishing its own cartoon studio. Warner Bros. Animation opened its doors in 1980 to produce compilation films and television specials starring the ""Looney Tunes"" characters. The studio's initial head was Hal Geer, who had been the original studio's sound effects editor during its final days, and he"
"Looney Tunes: Back in Action Looney Tunes: Back in Action is a 2003 American live-action/animated comedy film directed by Joe Dante. It is the third feature-length live-action/animation hybrid film to feature ""Looney Tunes"" characters, after ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" (1988) and ""Space Jam"" (1996). The plot follows Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny (both voiced by Joe Alaskey) as they help aspiring daredevil Damian ""D.J."" Drake, Jr. (Brendan Fraser) and Warner Bros. executive Kate Houghton (Jenna Elfman) find the ""blue monkey"" diamond in order to prevent the evil Mr. Chairman (Steve Martin) of the Acme Corporation from using it to turn"
"two years previously, to provide Bugs' and Daffy's voices. The short was directed by Darrell Van Citters, who went on to direct the first two ""Hare Jordan"" Bugs Bunny/Michael Jordan commercials for Nike. In the late 1980s, Warner Bros. Animation started producing new theatrical animated shorts, featuring the ""Looney Tunes"" characters. ""The Duxorcist"" (1987) and ""The Night of the Living Duck"" (1988) were well-received individually. Both were then incorporated to the compilation film ""Daffy Duck's Quackbusters"" (1988). They marked a return to prominence for fictional character Daffy Duck. They were followed by ""Box-Office Bunny"", the first theatrical short featuring Bugs"
"Greg Ford Greg Ford is an animator, director, historian and consultant to Warner Bros. Animation. He is perhaps best known for directing the films ""Daffy Duck's Quackbusters"" (1988) and ""(Blooper) Bunny"" (1991). During the 1960s and 1970s, he interviewed many of the key people responsible for Warner Bros.' success during The Golden Age of American animation (including Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng), and was given ""special thanks"" for working on the documentary film """", before officially joining the staff at Warner Bros. Animation in 1985. He teamed with director Terry Lennon on several theatrical shorts, television specials, and documentaries. In"
"Looney Tunes Looney Tunes is an American animated series of comedy short films produced by Warner Bros. from 1930 to 1969 during the golden age of American animation, alongside its sister series ""Merrie Melodies"". It was known for introducing Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Tasmanian Devil, Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote and many other cartoon characters. ""Looney Tunes"" name was inspired by Walt Disney's musical series ""Silly Symphonies"". They initially showcased musical compositions whose rights were held by Warner's music publishing interests"
"to a.a.p. in 1956. With Warners' own animation studio closed, the studio had to resort to outside producers whenever new ""Looney Tunes""-related animation was required. In 1976, Chuck Jones, by this time the head of his own Chuck Jones Enterprises studio, began producing a series of ""Looney Tunes"" specials, the first of which was ""Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals"". In 1979, Jones produced new wraparound footage for a compilation feature of ""Looney Tunes"" shorts entitled ""The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie"". The success of this film spurred Warner Bros. to establish its own studio to produce similar works, and"
"technology updated and the pencil and paintbrush replaced by a digital pen. In issue #94 of the ""Looney Tunes"" comic, Bugs Bunny gets his back at Daffy Duck by making him the victim, in switching various movie roles, from Duck Twacy in ""Who Killed Daffy Duck"","" a video game character, and a talk show host, and they always wind up with Daffy starring in ""Moby Dick"" (the story's running gag). After this, Bugs comments, ""Eh, dis guy needs a new agent."" Rabbit Rampage Rabbit Rampage is a 1955 Bugs Bunny Warner Bros. animated cartoon, directed by Chuck Jones which was"
"Paul Julian (artist) Paul Hull Husted (June 25, 1914 – September 5, 1995), better known as Paul Julian, was an American background animator, sound effects artist, and voice actor for Warner Bros. Animation Studios. Julian worked on ""Looney Tunes"" short films, primarily on director Friz Freleng's Sylvester and Tweety Bird shorts. During his time at WB, Julian also provided the vocal effects of the Road Runner. His warm and tightly-cropped urban scenes were also featured early in his career in the 1946 Bugs Bunny film ""Baseball Bugs"", and in the crime syndicate-themed Daffy Duck film ""Golden Yeggs."" Julian also worked"
"Mel Blanc Melvin Jerome Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor, comedian, singer, and radio personality. After beginning his over 60-year career performing in radio, he became known for his work in animation as the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, the Tasmanian Devil and many of the other characters from the ""Looney Tunes"" and ""Merrie Melodies"" theatrical cartoons during the golden age of American animation. He voiced all of"
"Art Babbitt Arthur Harold Babitsky (October 8, 1907 – March 4, 1992), better known as Art Babbitt, was an American animator, best known for his work at The Walt Disney Company. He received over 80 awards as an animation director and animator, and also developed the character of Goofy. Babbitt worked as an animator or animation director on such films as ""The Three Little Pigs"" (1933), ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" (1937), ""Fantasia"" (1940), and ""The Incredible Mr. Limpet"" (1964), among others. Outside of Disney, he also animated ""The Wise Quacking Duck"" (1943) for Leon Schlesinger Productions. Babbitt was"
"Warner Bros. Cartoons Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. was the in-house division of Warner Bros. during the Golden Age of American animation. One of the most successful animation studios in American media history, it was primarily responsible for the ""Looney Tunes"" and ""Merrie Melodies"" theatrical cartoon short subjects. The characters featured in these cartoons, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester and Tweety, are among the most famous and recognizable characters in the world. Many of the creative staff members at the studio, including directors and animators such as Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson, Tex Avery, Robert Clampett and"
"Daffy Duck Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character produced by Warner Bros. Styled as an anthropomorphic black duck, the character has appeared in cartoon series such as ""Looney Tunes"" and ""Merrie Melodies"", in which he usually has been depicted as a foil for Bugs Bunny. Daffy was one of the first of the new ""screwball"" characters that emerged in the late 1930s to replace traditional everyman characters who were more popular earlier in the decade, such as Mickey Mouse and Popeye. Daffy starred in 130 shorts in the golden age, making him the third-most frequent character in the ""Looney"
"Duck Amuck Duck Amuck is an American surreal animated cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. The short film was released in early 1953 by The Vitaphone Corporation, the short subject division of Warner Bros., as part of the ""Merrie Melodies"" series. It stars Daffy Duck, who is tormented by a seemingly sadistic, initially unseen animator, who constantly changes Daffy's locations, clothing, voice, physical appearance and even shape, much to Daffy's aggravation and rage. Pandemonium reigns throughout the cartoon as Daffy attempts to steer the action back to some kind of normality, only for the animator"
"following among animation fans for its edgy humor. Starting in 2003, Greg Ford serves as a consultant and contributor to the ""Looney Tunes Golden Collection"" DVD box set series, conducting many audio commentaries and helping in the production of many bonus features. Greg Ford is a particular champion for the works of Friz Freleng, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett. Greg Ford Greg Ford is an animator, director, historian and consultant to Warner Bros. Animation. He is perhaps best known for directing the films ""Daffy Duck's Quackbusters"" (1988) and ""(Blooper) Bunny"" (1991). During the 1960s and 1970s, he interviewed"
"The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (original working title: The Great American Chase) is a 1979 ""Looney Tunes"" film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. Cartoons shorts and newly animated bridging sequences, hosted by Bugs Bunny. The bridging sequences, which had been produced in 1978, show Bugs at his home, which is cantilevered over a carrot-juice waterfall (modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright's ""Fallingwater"" house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania). Early on, Bugs discusses the wild villains he had co-starred with in his cartoons, which is followed by a tongue-in-cheek sequence depicting the history of comedy and"
"The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (original working title: The Great American Chase) is a 1979 ""Looney Tunes"" film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. Cartoons shorts and newly animated bridging sequences, hosted by Bugs Bunny. The bridging sequences, which had been produced in 1978, show Bugs at his home, which is cantilevered over a carrot-juice waterfall (modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright's ""Fallingwater"" house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania). Early on, Bugs discusses the wild villains he had co-starred with in his cartoons, which is followed by a tongue-in-cheek sequence depicting the history of comedy and"
"Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage is an action video game developed by Viacom New Media (a then-sister company to Nickelodeon, who had broadcast ""Looney Tunes"" cartoons at the time of the game's release) and published by Sunsoft released exclusively for the SNES in 1993 and 1994. The player controls Bugs Bunny as he fights traditional Looney Tunes villains in order to confront the main villain of the story, animator Daffy Duck. The game's title is derived from the 1955 animated short ""Rabbit Rampage"", which follows a similar plot of Bugs at the mercy of an antagonistic animator,"
"and Hanna worked alongside animator Tex Avery, who had created Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny for Warner Bros. and directed ""Droopy"" cartoons at MGM. In 1940, Hanna and Barbera jointly directed ""Puss Gets the Boot"", which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best (Cartoon) Short Subject. The studio wanted a diversified cartoon portfolio, so despite the success of ""Puss Gets the Boot"", Barbera and Hanna's supervisor, Fred Quimby, did not want to produce more cat and mouse cartoons believing that there were already enough cartoons of those in existence. Surprised by the success of ""Puss Gets the Boot"", Barbera"
"Douglas Trumbull Douglas Huntley Trumbull (; born April 8, 1942) is an American film director, special effects supervisor, and inventor. He contributed to, or was responsible for, the special photographic effects of """", ""Close Encounters of the Third Kind"", """", ""Blade Runner"" and ""The Tree of Life"", and directed the movies ""Silent Running"" and ""Brainstorm"". Douglas was born in Los Angeles. He is the son of Donald Trumbull who created visual effects for the 1939 movie ""The Wizard of Oz"" as well as later movies including ""Silent Running"" and ""Star Wars"". Douglas Trumbull's early work was at Graphic Films in"
"Bugs Bunny Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character, created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc. Bugs is best known for his starring roles in the ""Looney Tunes"" and ""Merrie Melodies"" series of animated short films, produced by Warner Bros. Though a similar character debuted in the WB cartoon ""Porky's Hare Hunt"" (1938) and appeared in a few subsequent shorts, the definitive character of Bugs is widely credited to have made his debut in director Tex Avery's Oscar-nominated film ""A Wild Hare"" (1940). Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray"
"the explosive fun of the author's art, ""Daffy Duck for President"" is presented in its original sketch form. It's pure Chuck Jones - brash, witty, and reflective - in a bold flash of pencil, paper, and impulse."" In 2004, Warner Bros. released a four-minute animated short of the same name based on the book, coinciding with the Presidential election that year. The film was produced by Spike Brandt, Tony Cervone, and Linda M. Steiner, and was dedicated to Chuck Jones (who died in 2002). It was considered for a 2005 Academy Award for Best Animated Short. Joe Alaskey voiced Bugs"
"film ""Roller Coaster Rabbit"". He also worked on ""The Rescuers Down Under"" (1990), ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991), ""Aladdin"" (1992), ""The Lion King"" (1994), ""Mulan"" (1998), and ""Lilo & Stitch"" (2002). He died of a heart attack at his California home in 2015, aged 54. Robert Walker (animator) Robert Walker (1961 – April 1, 2015) was a Canadian-born American animator who co-directed the Academy Award-nominated ""Brother Bear"" with Aaron Blaise. Walker was born in Toronto and raised in Ottawa, where he attended Gloucester High School. He had an older sister Sandra, and a younger brother, Jim. Walker studied animation at"
"Hour, Laugh-a-Lympics, The Three Robonic Stooges and The Kwicky Koala Show. Carl also wrote for the Hanna-Barbera comic books of: The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and The Jetsons. From 1953 through the early 1970s, Carl wrote for the Warner Bros. Animation characters of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Mary Jane & Sniffles, and Speedy Gonzales, and was story director for Yosemite Sam, Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales. Also in this time period, Fallberg wandered back into animation working on the Warner Bros. Speedy and Daffy Show. His work for MGM comic books included The Addams Family, Tom & Jerry, Droopy,"