Here is my chuck jones signed hardcover book of chuck amuck. Like his best cartoons, jones skips around to the fun parts, giving a bit of childhood here, a few words of drawing advice. This is surprising as i grew up loving looney tunes, delightedly passing on my passion for bugs and daffy to my own children and anyone who would listen. This is a listing of the shorts, feature films, television programs, and television specials in warner bros. Looney tunes is the collective title for a series of warner bros. Books starring looney tunes characters have been around nearly as long as the characters themselves. Looney tunes and merrie melodies filmography wikipedia. Jeff bergman interview bugs bunny daffy duck in the looney tunes show. Duck amuck is an american animated cartoon short directed by chuck jones and produced by warner bros. Altogether, 1,004 animated theatrical shorts alone were released under the looney tunes and merrie melodies banners from the 1930s through the 1960s. Looney tunes and merrie melodies filmography project.
Duck amuck 1953chuck jones isnt it amazing that two daffy duck classics were released in the same year. In 1999, jones established the chuck jones center for creativity, designed to recognize, support, and inspire continued excellence in art and the art of classic character animation. Looney tunes is an american animated comedy series produced by warner bros. Not a mere history, chuck amuck captures the antic spirit that created classic. Browngardt and his team began to develop the idea to reboot the looney tunes characters with a deep reverence for their origins in. About chuck jones chuck jones center for creativity. Duck amuck is a 2007 game for the nintendo ds developed by wayforward and published by warner bros. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options.
Find all the books, read about the author, and more. It was known for introducing bugs bunny, daffy duck, porky pig, elmer fudd, tweety, sylvester, granny, yosemite sam. The four disc set is packed out with many other as yet unannounced special features, such as a conversation with tex avery and a tv. Top 10 greatest looney tunes cartoons the odyssey online. His body is perched on two giant tennis shoes, and his heartshaped face is composed of only two oval eyes and a wide mouth, with two hulking arms ending in dirty, clawed fingers. Its been said that if disney cartoons were like classical music, then looney tunes cartoons were definitely jazz, and nowhere is that more prominent than in comparing both studios iterations of. Extremes and inbetweens, a life in animation as well as chuck jones. The premise in this short is simple, daffy is being harassed and tormented by an. Charles martin chuck jones note september 21, 1912 february 22, 2002 is one of the most revered animators, directors, and writers in the history of animation. The movie is a 1991 documentary film about chuck jones career with warner bros. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. This is also the only looney tunes short to have its own tv show based on it.
These are my picks for the top 10 greatest looney tunes shorts of all time. Chuck jones the evolution of an artist every frame a painting. He is famous for creating such beloved cartoon characters as wile e. Tiny toon adventures buster bunnys prehistoric pet. In what will be disappointing news for looney tunes fans, we can now confirm that, unless its an amazing well hidden feature, the chuck jones documentary chuck amuck is not included on the new looney tunes golden collection volume 2, despite recent rumors.
Chuck reducks, drawing on the fun side of life, his followup to the first book, was published in 1996. Looney tunes and merrie melodies series, extending from 1929 through the present. The book cover and dust jacket are worn, with bits of smudge on the book cover and the dust jacket has a tear on the front and the sticker is peeling underneath. Starting as a cel washer, chuck jones worked his way up to animator and then director at the animation division of warner bros. Looney tunes and merrie melodies series of cartoons. The animation art of chuck jones will be on display at the museum of the moving image, in new york city, through january, 2015, before moving on to other cities across. Chuck amuck the bugs bunny show play all the honeymousers bridging sequences. With a foreword by steven spielberg, this book is recommended as a bright inside look at the world of cartoon animation. Chuck jones and jim henson in london in 1988, as seen in jones 1990 book chuck amuck. The name sylvester is a play on felis silvestris, the scientific name for the wild cat species domestic cats. If tex avery, hypothetically speaking as the original cartoon gag man, was the trope maker, then chuck jones could well have been the trope codifier of much of what we consider cartoon comedy on the western animation side of. Chuck amuck by chuck jones, steven spielberg, and matt. Chuck himself speaks of his experience and draws certain looney tunes characters throughout the movie. If you like looney tunes andor chuck jones, and you havent read this book yet, then.
Chuck jones is an academy award winner and the creator of classic cartoon. Laughing with daffy and porky again in the curse of the. In his autobiography, chuck amuck, jones credits his artistic bent to circumstances surrounding his father, who was an unsuccessful businessman in california in the 1920s. Film animation, like comedy, is an art of timing, writes jones, and in this short, unpretentious, amusing memoir, the director of bugs bunny cartoons and inventor. Cartoons, by jerry beck and will friedwald 1989, henry holt, isbn 0805008942. If you grew up watching looney tunes, then you know chuck jones, one of alltime masters of visual comedy. That said, looney tunes isnt exactly your average comic book series. Aug 29, 2014 chuck jones here are some of my favorite drawings, published in his 1989 book chuck amuck. To ask other readers questions about chuck amuck, please sign up. Thankfully, he is still alive and producing the great work he always has. The short film was released in early 1953 by the vitaphone corporation, the short subject division of warner bros. Voice actors, characters, tv shows, movies, video games, shorts, commercials and voice compares from the looney tunes franchise.
Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, ipad, iphone and android. In this beguiling memoir, chuck jones evokes the golden years of life at termite. Gossamer is an animated character in the warner bros. Normally i would talk about his ingenious framing and chuck jones the evolution of an artist on vimeo. Charles martin chuck jones was an american animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most notably of looney tunes and merrie melodies shorts for the warner bros cartoons studio. Like his best cartoons, jones skips around to the fun parts, giving a bit of childhood here, a few words of drawing advice there, and a good yarn wherever one fits. Like the cartoon short it is based on, duck amuck, it involves an external entity in this case the player manipulating daffy ducks environment. It also appears as a special feature on looney tunes golden collection.
The movie is a documentary film about chuck jones career with warner bros. The life and times of an animated cartoonist hardcover 1989. A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record. His father, jones recounts, would start every new business venture by purchasing new stationery and new pencils with the company name on them. Books about looney tunes and their authors and animators are newer and perhaps aimed at an older audience, but just as popular. The life and times of an animated cartoonist is a sort of autobiography of chuck jones, the brilliant warner brothers animator who created such enduring characters as wile e.
Chuck amuck best of chuck jones by devilkais on deviantart. I was given this wonderful memoir by the owner of an animation art gallery 25 years ago, but never got around to taking chuck amuck off my bookshelf and reading it until now. Good gift for looney tunes fans and aspiring artists. The life and times of an animated cartoonist jones, chuck, groening. Dc collectibles is a toy and memorabilia channel for adults. For one thing, dc doesnt even collect it in trade paperbacks. Learn how to draw horses simply with this howto book how to draw books are written by wellknown artists drawing book teaches you to work with. Get your team aligned with all the tools you need on one secure, reliable video platform. This book will get you turning to the boomerang cable network and savoring looney tunes all over again. Charlie the dog is one of my favorite looney tunes characters. Chuck amuck autobiography of chuck jones third printing. My favorite looney tunes short, chuck jones short and short ever made.
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