Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones 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, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Pepé Le Pew, Porky Pig and a slew of other Warner characters.
During his artistic education, he worked part-time as a janitor. After graduating from Chouinard Art Institute, Jones got a phone call from a friend named Fred Kopietz, who had been hired by the Ub Iwerks studio and offered him a job. He worked his way up in the animation industry, starting as a cel washer; "then I moved up to become a painter in black and white, some color. Then I went on to take animator's drawings and traced them onto the celluloid. Then I became what they call an in-betweener, which is the guy that does the drawing between the drawings the animator makes". While at Iwerks, he met a cel painter named Dorothy Webster, who later became his first wife.
After his career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions, and began producing cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts and the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. He later started his own studio, Chuck Jones Enterprises, which created several one-shot specials, and periodically worked on Looney Tunes related works.
Jones was nominated for an Academy Award eight times and won three times, receiving awards for the cartoons For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and the Line. He received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 for his work in the animation industry. Film historian Leonard Maltin has praised Jones' work at Warner Bros., MGM and Chuck Jones Enterprises. He also said that the "feud" that there may have been between Jones and colleague Bob Clampett was mainly because they were so different from each other. In Jerry Beck's The 50 Greatest Cartoons, ten of the entries were directed by Jones, with four out of the five top cartoons being Jones shorts.
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during of Production of Space Jam (1996). The Animators went with Bob Clampett's style of animation due to being wilder than Chuck Jones' style. Chuck Jones famously disliked the 1996 film Space Jam, calling it "terrible" and believing the characters were out of character. As a creator of many of the Looney Tunes characters, Jones felt the plot was unnecessary, the character portrayals were wrong—such as Porky Pig saying "I think I wet myself"—and that Bugs Bunny could have resolved the conflict much more quickly on his own. Despite his criticism, the film was a box office success.
for the Production of The Iron Giant. the Art Style and Design for the Characters was blended with a style reminiscent of 1950s illustration. Animators studied Chuck Jones, Hank Ketcham, Al Hirschfeld and Disney films from that era, such as 101 Dalmatians, for inspiration in the film's animation.
during of Production of Fixed. Genndy Tartakovsky drawing inspiration from the works of Tex Avery and Chuck Jones' Looney Tunes shorts, particularly due to their emphasis on expressive animation. However, the film became more cartoony. Tartakovsky did have to soften the animation for the genitals, however, coloring the anuses "a bit more subtly.
Chuck Jones's legacy endures, with his style continuing to influence subsequent generations of animators.
Jones’ unit, along with Friz Freleng’s unit, are the only units of the original Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series during the Golden Age of Animation to also work on any of the shorts in the Post-Golden Age media (as well as any of the television specials or compilation films).
Chuck Jones at the Internet Movie Database
