Chuck Jones - The Evolution of an Artist
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- If you grew up watching Looney Tunes, then you know Chuck Jones, one of all-time masters of visual comedy. Normally I would talk about his ingenious framing and timing, but not today. Instead, I’d like to explore the evolution of his sensibilities as an artist. To see the names of the films, press the CC button and select “Movie Titles.”
This video also had a wonderful animation consultant: Taylor Ramos ( / taylorkramos )
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Music:
Raymond Scott - “Powerhouse," "Minuet in Jazz,” “Twilight in Turkey,” “The Toy Trumpet"
Carl Stalling - "Scentimental Romeo," "Guided Muscle,” "Feline Frame-Up,” “Rabbit Seasoning," “Duck! Rabbit, Duck!”
Milt Franklyn - “One Froggy Evening,” "Robin Hood Daffy,” “What’s Opera, Doc?"
Interview Clips (from Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Vol 1):
Chuck Jones Interview: EmmyTVLegends.org (bit.ly/1J2ZXuW)
Chuck Jones: Extremes & In-Betweens (bit.ly/1SpUb7i)
A Chuck Jones Tutorial: Tricks of the Cartoon Trade (bit.ly/1HxxRG5)
It Hopped One Night: A Look at “One Froggy Evening” (bit.ly/1RC3plV)
Recommended Reading:
9 Rules of the Coyote and the Road Runner (bit.ly/1LdfN8d)
Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist (amzn.com/0374526206)
The Noble Approach: Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation Design (amzn.com/1452102945)
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The point about reading is dead on. I can't describe how tired I'm of movies and animation having really stale structure and humour. It's almost like characters don't talk to each other, but exchange tweets to decide who's wittier.
That last sentence is strange, but makes too much sense. Marvel movies are the biggest culprit.
Exactly, its like movies and pop culture today take inspiration from each other and not from outside. Even though what made the earlier entertainment products fun was that they were inspired from somewhere else other than other movies.
Well, maybe things will change, not that Melon Muzk has destroyed twitter faster than a lettuce who won against Truss is still alive.
why did u just described what i'm going through
@@RAXY-0007 so true
Chuck Jones was the first name of a media "maker" that I memorized as a kid. I didn't know what a director, or a producer or an animator was - but I knew that every cartoon that started with "Directed by Chuck Jones" was going to be great
I had the exact same thing happen with Donald Duck comics. I always got excited to read one made by Carl Barks or Don Rosa
Same here 😂
& the great Mel Blanc doing the voices 👍
Same here
Same with Tex Avery if I saw Chuck Jones or Tex it was a heater
Rabbit of Seville and What's Opera, Doc? are two of the greatest cartoons ever created, regardless of genre.
100%. They should be recognized as National Treasures - because they are... :)
Totally agree! Library of Congress, take notice!
I would add "Duck Amuck" to that list for the sheer unbridled creativity.
I killed the Wabbit!
True but i I hold the Yoikes and Away scene from Daffy’s turn as Robin Hood as the funniest piece of animation ever…I believe it would drive me insane long before I’d stop enjoying it…sorry I forget the actual name of the toon…but a close second would be the toon where Yosemite Sam has to be nice to Bugs or lose his fortune…the frick and frack and various garbled words he shouts out as he falls to the water far below are still to this day just as funny as any foul mouthed angry comedy rant in any film ever put to celluloid
It’s strange if I watch other cartoons including Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck from the same era, they feel old fashioned, mostly worth watching for the history, but with the Looney Tunes or Tom and Jerry they’re funny and enjoyable for their own sake.
I know! I tried to get through 'Steamboat Willy' and it was very dated. But 'Tom and Jerry' and 'Looney Toons' always feel fresh
I can't recall ever being interested in Walt Disney characters/cartoons because they didn't have the slapstick hijinks that Looney Tunes did.
The only other cartoons on par with Looney Tunes were Tex Avery Screwball Classics. I think those were even crazier in some instances lol😂
@@FuShengAlex DIsneys characters also feel much more simple and kinda flat, Looney Toons characters usually have some sort of contradiction that makes them work so well. They're still simple but you get a better grasp at their goals and moitvations and how they get them. Pete may be a buly just to be one, but someone like Elmer Fudd does it for the reward which makes him more intersting. Donald is probably the best oldschool Disney character imo
@@randomguyontheinternet7940
I'm not even trying to be facetious when I say I don't remember any Disney characters cartoons. I don't even know ONE episode from any of their characters. Even as a child I never bothered to watch their cartoons. I have to watch some now as I'm older to see what I missed out on. See if I missed anything funny.
Whereas with Looney Tunes me and my fellow 40 something year brother we still recite the lines and characters we grew up watching in the 80s to this day.
Only Looney Tunes and Tex Avery Screwball Classics have stood the tests of time for me.
And I'd like to think Donald Duck couldn't hold a candle to Daffy Duck....but I'll have to watch.
Its like comparing Gone With the Wind and Dr Strangelove. Ill take the latter
I think the thing that blew my mind the most about this video was the part about reading. You know reading is important when literally one of the greatest artists of their craft says you won’t get better by just watching film you need to read a book. So inspiring.
There are other reasons but generally speaking you can get through FAR more volume of material by reading than watching. One reason why internet is sooo dumbed down compared to early days.
@@cannibalholocaust3015 Yeah, especially when everyone says "Uhm Ackshuwally, why should I go outshide when I could jusht google it?", because you don't know what you're googling specifically, and even if you did, it's not enough good inspiration when compared to the real thing. Like being in a forest for example, if you googled it rather than going to a park then it would feel like cheating and you wouldn't get the proper feel of what being in a forest is like. Not only that, but a lot of content creators (including guilty, hypocritical me) would take certain traits and art styles from their favourite video game or movie rather than reading or even learning why the certain game or movie is popular in the first place but they would still call it "inspiration" because why not. The reason why taking stuff from video games and movies rather than reading is a problem is not only their work being uninspired but it limits the imagination as well because the visuals, sound and story in movies and video games are already there being bottle-fed to us while reading a book or researching real life makes us use our imagination as the visuals or such, like that tiny voice in your head when you're reading this wall of text right now, YOU are using your mind and imagination. Another example is reading a book/story, like "MacBeth" or "An inspector calls" (which are the books I read in back at high school), when you're reading, you would visualise the scene in your head. Even the movie adaptations of the books are close but not %100 specific to what the original writer had in mind (due to them being dead), instead the actions of the movie were from the mind of the movie director but not the original writer.
@@cannibalholocaust3015reading requires imagination so there’s that. It’s a completely different experience from film where everything is provided. That said a 10 hour novel is a 90 minute film. As far as nonfiction it depends, but videos can deliver info more rapidly if the subject is visual and the video is concise.
Seems like he's the reason why I watch Looney Tunes as a kid, especially Road Runner and Coyote (my favourites). Their gags are genuinely funny and just knowing that in order to make a good slapstick comedy you have to study the elements of life just makes his works true masterpieces. No wonder the franchise never gets old.
you don't need to know existentialism to laugh at Willy Coyote but it does provide a harder laugh
And this is perfected by Mel Blanc's voiceover talent. That's why Looney Tunes is enjoy to watch time to time.
Mel Blanc is just as important to Looney Tunes success as Chuck Jones is. His voice work is masterful and far beyond what anyone else has ever been able to do. I remember when I was about 12 I took time to read the credits to see who all did these voices if these great cartoons. Each time it was just Mel Blanc, Mel Blanc, Mel Blanc…… One man doing all those voices, from Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Pepe le Pew, Tweety Bird, Yosemite Sam., and so on. His range is amazing.
and the sounds/ music 4:19 also tells the story 5:21
When you have Steven Spielberg say your work is the best in the business you know Chuck Jones was what was up.
Shiki Eiki...
What Spielberg discovered about how the Warner cartoons were made astounded him. Before one frame was shot, the crew knew exactly how the entire cartoon would turn out. Since they were operating under a strict time limit, the cartoons were edited in the pre-preduction stage. With the exception of a few cartoons that were edited after release, there is no lost footage from Warner catoons.
Spielberg is a distasteful guy, but he definitely knows about film and visual impact. He went on record saying that Castle of Cagliostro was one of the greatest adventure movies ever made, and it's tragic that people don't talk about the film today.
He also has an adopted daughter who is a s** worker, makes a lot of films starring children, is associated with Poltergeist which involved the disturbing death of a child actress, and his sister wrote the script for Big, which is about adult-child relations.
@@squirrelsyrup1921the last 4 letters of his last name
@@squirrelsyrup1921You do make an air-tight case. Time to start rounding up everyone ever involved with making kids films…like Miyazaki.
O’Rourke died of complications apparently stemming from Crohn’s disease in 1988. Poltergeist came out in 1982. So her death is tied to Spielberg how? Not saying a hollywood movie director is necessarily an innocent class of person, but your prosecutorial skills may need some tuning.
I'm on a mission to watch every Looney Tunes cartoon ever produced and this video has given me more of an insight into them as I watch them. Thank you :)
Wow Dan didn't know I would find you here! LOVE your songs and best wishes to you in life (p.s has your ear gotten better?)
Cartoon Channel cable onetime (??late 80's-early90s) did a full weekend 72 hours of Bugs Bunny from 1930s-1970s and I HAD before moving and throwing them away, ?< 20 VHS tapes slow with 6hrs each of cartoons. Kinda miss them now but my tapes got corrupted with time anyway.
I'm sure you can get them on DVD these days. Classics like that don't stop selling.
Have you seen all of them yet?
I want to do that too, I just didn't get around to it
"To avoid this problem, Jones did something. This is one of the defining aspects of his work. It's a word that he uses and that other people use about him..."
"MEEP MEEP!"
I don't think it was intentional, but that timing was hilarious XD
i would think it was intentional because it followed the exact structure of the gags; Assumption... and then proving your thoughts wrong.
I didn’t even see that as a joke. I thought it was just another cartoon shot, it went way over my head
Nya, a very good concept to keep in mind. "What's your secret?" "Meep meep!"
Lp"
LMFAO
In loving memory of Chuck Jones (1912-2002)
Thank you Chuck. Go Amuck wherever you are..
I watched as a kid and I laughed. I got the jokes. But he never catered to me. He played classical music with the toons. He was often very subtle. Things people would never do today because they assume kids are not able to get the joke unless it’s idiotic. Chuck Jones was a certifiable genius. Better than any who have come along since.
I watched Looney Tunes as a kid and didn't realize until I was an adult that I love classical music. I can't hear Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" without thinking about Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. Chuck Jones paired with the most prolific person in the history of Hollywood, Mel Blanc's voice acting, and you have short films that will hold up forever.
I found inspiration right here. Thank you.
frank howarth and Every Frame a Painting !
Love you guys!
Really focusing on the face of Bugs in barber scene, got the biggest laugh from me of all the clips used.
Yes!
Just kills me every time that I see "The Rabbit of Saville" come on.
Yep. I agree. That expression is PERFECT!
Same. I bust out laughing with that serious grimace bugs was doing!
6:35
I can't be the only one who loved Chuck Jones' work in the Tom & Jerry cartoons. His era was one of my favs!
After the Hanna Barbera one it was my fav too!
This video has 4 million views, so yeah
In fairness, the Gene Deitch shorts made behind the Iron Curtain were horrible! (Also ironic is that he outlived everyone else from the Golden Age of Animation, finally passing away in 2020.)
He also Directed The Grinch that stole Christmas.
Absolutely!! Chuck Jones-era Tom and Jerry is the best!
I remember when I was a kid, first time I saw the Sylvester and the martian, with the "meow". I almost choked to death laughing. Couldn't catch my breath.
All humor comes from two things - human behavior, and logic.
This is so enlightening.
***** Thats the kind of quote you want to tattoo onto your arm so you never forget it.
***** That's in the case of these jokes. It's not some be all and end all formula for humor.
I disagree, it applies to most types of humor - irony, parody, blue, anecdotal, slap-stick, yada yada, yada.
And when I first heard the quote I thought how it well it described Louis C. K.
Can you explain what you mean by how it doesn't apply to all humor?
Sometimes humor has no logic
***** I didn't get that part. Would anyone mind explaining it to me?
We have always been huge proponents of the idea that you can find inspiration any place.
Watching movies IS NOT enough to become a good filmmaker.
Thank you Tony for a wonderful video!
Filmmaker IQ High five.
Filmmaker IQ This... is actually really good advice for any of life's ventures.
Filmmaker IQ You can find inspiration anywhere... except movies, I guess.
Ari Evans not true - it's just not enough.
***** - Good point...
I hear a lot of "What does this have to do with Filmmaking?" - everything has everything to do with filmmaking.
I might loose my cool cred, but it's the same as asking "Why do I need to learn algebra if I'm never going to use it" - you learn algebra because it trains you in think empirically and logically.
But to add to the point why watching films is not enough - It would be like trying to learn how to run a restaurant kitchen by eating out every night. Sure you can sample the best stuff out there (which is essential), you can even dissect the dishes into their elements - but you don't get to see what it takes to pull something like that together.
Ultimately my point is you have MAKE films as well.
Bro the music behind Looney Tunes is so good, it really helps make the show.
Yes I always love the way the music matched their movements!
Hats off to Carl Stalling.
please come back you were literally the best channel on this site
Another thing that makes Looney/Tiny Toons so great is their use of music and sound effects, full bands playing well known tunes, and exposing kids to some of the greatest classical music their parent's would never play for them otherwise.
both chuck jones and hayao miyazaki, renowned masters of their craft, have stressed the importance of cartoonists studying real life humans. for the sake of animation's future, i hope that more artists will take this advice instead of just continuing to mimic other cartoons/anime/movies etc, saturating the market with tropes and cliches. draw from life! experience life! it's the only way to make something new.
Ivy
_"...masters of their craft..."_. What a wonderful description. It captures their essence in four simple words..
Ivy Yep. And that goes for music artists as well. it goes for all artists. Today's music artists sound the same to me.
Ivy so you're saying that in order to be original and to stop mimicking/copying what's already been done, you should do the thing that someone did before? I get what you mean but it sounds a tad contradictory to me. Or at least ironic.
Ivy have you seen that video in which Miyazaki tears a young animator apart for his soulless CGI? It's pretty intense stuff, but Miyazaki is right.
AishteruDIO4 I don't think that is what she or Chuck Jones meant. Getting inspiration from as many different sources as possible is not the same as just copying something. Nothing is 100% original and nothing is created in a vacuum.
“Sometimes I feel really sorry for the coyote, I wished he’d catch him.” I hear a lot of people feel that way, myself included as a kid, rooting for Tom or Sylvester.
It’s interesting people back then also kinda felt sympathy for the predator characters at time. We all know what it’s like to try hard and fail.
I think it’s because no one ever saw the result of wile or Tom catching their target whereas we saw roadrunner and jerry torture them endlessly
@@matthewbartlett3442 "torture them endlessly" "roadrunner"
you do know the wile e coyote is tryin to eat the guy?
NotRay1995 yes his intentions are crystal clear but we never saw what that meant so we could only understand what would have happened to the roadrunner theoretically whereas we see first hand what keeps happening to Wile
@@matthewbartlett3442 We don't need to see it to understand it. He wants to eat it
Even predators gotta eat.
I would add that every single background frame is an absolute work of art -- a unity of composition, color, value, ... all the elements of design are in perfect harmony.
Courtesy the great Maurice Noble, Bob Gribbroek, Peter Alvarado, and Paul Julian. Forgive me if I've forgotten anyone whose layouts and backgrounds are in this video.
No matter how many times I watch it, that barbershop scene where Bugs is massaging tonic into Elmer Fudd's head makes me fall over in tears. That single expression is amazing.
***** Yes, Chuck Jones was the best at facial expressions :)
Oh yeah. Previous one, when the alien bird puts his hand on Sylvester's head, the face the cat makes... I almost bust a fucking gut
I love bug's like out of focus eyes
I remember as a kid laughing harder at that particular episode than any other. I think because it just relied so heavily on the visual comedy. Like you said, there's something that's just so goddamn funny about the calm, measured look on Bugs' face and Elmer's lack of reaction during that part, even though it's all so understated.
What’s it called? I’m curious
"I'm a snake and you have charmed me, no?"
SNAKE? SNAKE!? SNAAAAAKE!!!!!!!!!!!
It got me hard. I'd fall for that pick up line from opposite gender.
I'm a sassy little snaaaaake.
I laughed at several of the examples partly because I already know the dialog that goes with it... of course you realize this means war..
Not gonna lie, if a man in real life acts like pepe, he would get mad puss
This was a great reminder of some of my biggest influences. As I venture deeper into my artistry and writing I watch this and my mind goes “ohhhhhh that’s where I got those ideas from.” Couldn’t have popped up at a better time in my life. thank you!
Chuck Jones is one of my favorite directors. To me, he's right up there with Don Bluth and Hayao Miyazaki
This just reminded me of how great Looney Tunes was!
Was!? *WAS!?*
Back in Action, (Blooper) Bunny!, Another Froggy Evening, Wizzzard of Ow!, and _especially_ wabbit. (among others) would like to have a word with you.
LpmedVH c'mon. back in action was a good film
LpmedVH well. it's just your opinion. but bia it's a better movie than space jam.
Merry Melodies are, too.
Resortín Rocha dummy
The many fourth-wall breaks are what I love best about these classics.
They basically invented it but today's cartoons use it too much and its not charming anymore.
@@bluefoxthecutest2628 jj
I gotta say, I really loved the minimalized facial expressions he did in later shows.
Two of the best aspects of these cartoons were the sound effects and music. You could have every character not speak in every story and just use music and sound effects and you’d still be able to understand what was going on and the characters would still be as funny
I cannot find a single channel on youtube that consistently gets better with every new video and provokes new ideas in entertainment. Great job!
Go check out Nerdwriter1. He is on the level of this guy. He goes more into stuff like life, Greek mythology, film, all types of stuff. Both of these channels give some great work.
Dantaefett Icus Thanks for the suggestion!
***** Different genre, but Innuendo Studios has been killing it with video essays about video games and gaming culture.
***** Game Maker's Toolkit is very good and has a similar feel to this too actually (except that it's about videogame and not film design).
+Ryan Khanna For deconstructed view of a video game presentation, like this channel does films, go to Matthewmatosis. That guy is the epitome of video game director studies as this guy is for film studies.
Lol XD. I lost it at 6:37. The look on Bugs Bunny's face while he is doing that massage is priceless!
that is still one of my all time favorite moments in cartoons
I can't figure out how that hasn't become a meme yet.
SalsaSpartan7 I call it the Forest Whitaker
thats one of my all time favorite Bugs Bunny`s faces :D
+Jd Blake Lol. I like that.
Chucks comments about brining new ideas to your drawings kind of reminds me of the Miyazaki anime was a mistake bit.
In the full interview before that memed lined, Miyazaki mentioned:
"You see, whether you can draw like this or not, being able to think up this kind of design, it depends on whether or not you can say to yourself, 'Oh, yeah, girls like this exist in real life.' If you don’t spend time watching real people, you can’t do this, because you’ve never seen it."
Going on to say that some people making anime without really watching real life and calling them all Otakus. Really interesting but now a surprise that both Chuck Jones and Hayao Miyazaki both say the best way to make better cartoons is to not watch cartoons
It’s something that I think most skilled creators would agree with, in some form or another - the old adage “write what you know” comes from the same mindset, and Stephen King broke it down similarly, that even pure fantasy only works if it’s grounded in a “realness” that you get from observing people.
Mark Twain was famous for observing people down to the point that linguists still use his novels to track certain accents and dialects. Even people like Quentin Tarrantino, whose movies I dislike but I still have to admit is skilled, is well known for watching and dissecting hundreds and hundreds of films, even things most people consider terrible, just because he finds the process fascinating.
Creation from within the same small bubble at all times can’t be anything other than a twisted, gnarled mess of referrential work, slowly choking itself out. Imagination is like plants, you need food and open space for it to grow.
Those who grew up on Looney Tunes are by far the most fortunate generation. Do your kids a favor and be sure to give them the opportunity to watch them all in their original unedited, uncensored form.
no grow the fuck up
I was born in the late 2000s and even growing up i wasn’t a Disney kid, i was a looney tunes babie and tbh, I’m grateful everyday for that.
i'm a 2005 kid yet growing up watching the looney tunes DVDs we had was the best thing my parents could have raised me on- i find it still influences my humour and my love of making and watching art/cartoons even now. it is really important imo that kids grow up watching media that was made with heart and actually cared for art- instead of many cheap cartoons nowadays that lack substance and care only for the money (i.e illumination studios)
Grew up with them. Loved them from the first moment…and could not tell you why, but recognized even very young that they were real stories, told much better than words. I was an avid reader, but this was so much fun.
Loved only one Disney gang…Huey, Dewey and Louie..,
I heard Chuck Jones give an illustrated lecture many years ago. It was incredible to hear stories of the Warner Brothers days. One thing has always stuck in my mind, next time you see a road runner movie and Wile E Coyote goes of a cliff, he will disappear for exactly 2 seconds before the impact and cloud of dust. Always 2 seconds. Why? Because it is the funniest interval. Chuck told us they literally changed the interval one frame at a time to get the perfect timing and it can´me out as 48 frames - 2 seconds. Such amazing dedication to the joke
i wish this was feature length
bellby If you check the description, there's a link to the documentary "Extremes and In-Betweens" and it's a pretty good feature-length doc about Chuck Jones. The clips of Spielberg and Matt Groening are from there.
Every Frame a Painting I love you.
Every Frame a Painting many thanks! well done.
So do I
+Every Frame a Painting The video got taken down due to copyright, is there an alternative? Thanks.
Some of my fondness childhood memories are of these great cartoons. Among them was my 1st exposure to Opera because of my remembrances of " Kill the Rabbit" ect. When the opportunity to see a live opera presented itself I availed myself and fully enjoyed the experience. I don't think I would have without Mr. Jones and company 's seeding that ground. Thanks for the laughs!
Even as a kid I learned rather quickly that anything that began with that name was going to be funny. That still holds true as an adult. I didn't realize until I was older that realized I'dI learned quite a bit about other art forms and their history as well through those films..
Ok, I always wondered why Chuck jones never had the acclaim he deserved.
***** Except he made shorts at a time when they were meant for adults so...
...and to be fair, Chuck Jones has received tons of accolades, and three of his shorts have copies within the Library of Congress' National Film Registry to be preserved for all time (and not only was What's Opera Doc the first animated short to be selected for preservation, at three shorts Jones has more short films in there than anyone else) so at the moment I think his legacy is doing all right.
He finds acclaim in those who care. The others don't matter anyway.
Los Blancos Really? I always thought people crowned him as the star of Looney Tunes. There were plenty of other animators before him like Tex Avery and Bob Clampett who pretty much invented the cartoon logic.
Harvey Rothman EXACTLY! There are more books about Chuck than about Tex or Bob especially Bob since there are no books about his life or his time at Warner Bros which is just a shame.
Los Blancos Because Chuck Jones did not make a lot of money, that is the difference between Him, Disney & Miyazaki imho.
This is one of my all time favourite video essays.
The music is really ignored from looney toons. Like where do you see a kids show with an orchestra accompaniment? The music was fantastic and gave so much to the show.
One of the best cartoonists off all time ✨✏️
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Jones on a few occasions back in, um, I think it was the 1980's. At the time I had the oddball idea that computers could be used to make cartoons, but whenever I talked to traditional animators, they were very negative about the concept. One Disney animator summed it up with "Oh, they'll never replace me!", completely missing the point that I didn't want to make animation cheaper, I wanted to make it *better*. I'm sure there were traditional animators who were supportive of using computers (like John Lassiter), but unfortunately I only met one: Chuck Jones. He's the only traditional animator who told me that using computers for animation sounded like a great idea. It's a shame he's not around to see some of the fantastic work people are doing in computer animation these days, but his work still echoes in many of today's films, animated or not. RIP, Mr. J. After all these years, they still make me laugh.
Thanks for making this. Chuck Jones was a true artist in every sense of the word. He influenced not just modern cartooning but also motion pictures as well.
Actually the greatest TH-cam video.
I remember they would have a chuck Jones show on cartoon network and a intro to the show before the show very creative and I wouldn't ever want to miss it
today is a good day :)
DSLRguide Love your videos!
One of my favorite film teachers appreciating the other. Yes, today is a good day!
DSLRguide I didn't even have to use my AK
+DSLRguide Seriously, every new episode is like Christmas - only I get to relive it over and over each time I watch it.
yes it is
I'm a better human being because I grew up watching Chuck Jones-directed Looney Tunes short films. This episode was great; I laughed the entire time.
Same here
You and me both, brother.
Growing up, all three of us brothers wished we could be Mel Blanc.
Beautifully said--truly. Me too.
I used to watch looney toons with my
Brother when I was little.
I love this video so much!! I always come back to it when I want to feel inspired. You can find it any place... but this is one of my favorites.
Chuck Jones is a legend in animation. Thanks for the mini documentary on Mr. Jones.
This man's one of my heroes. Chuck Jones, Don Bluth, Hayao Miyazaki, Terry Gilliam, Satoshi Kon and Hideo Kojima.
Miyazaki and Hideo Kojima are Gods
+Teebz 1000 yeah the father of animation or anime
+Kire-Kitsune perhaps you can add Tony Zhou too that list too
+Kire-Kitsune He should do a video about video kojima, although not a director of movies, he's just as great
+Kire-Kitsune what about Hideaki Anno?
earned my sub
He's right in that reading helps you to create images in your mind, and observing human behavior and how they move is a key component to being an animator.
Chuck jones was my whole childhood
Chuck Jones is the reason I want to become an animator. One day, I hope....
One day? Do it now.
I hope you've pursued your ambition in these 4 years! And if you haven't, all you need is a pencil and a little pad of sticky notes!
Just don’t ever get a job a illumination they do nothing to further the animation .Those idiots are the reason why animation is written off as childish .When animation is not a genre it could be any genre
Oh my god, I watched the entirety of the video and my eyes widen with realization. I was always inspired by Chuck Jones since I was a kid. Now as an Artist his words of Discipline and Inspiration are true. Thank You for allowing me to revisit an amazing artist and explain his craft.
I’ve always said this when I was a kid:
Bugs Bunny >>>> Mickey Mouse
6:06 Someone show this to the modern spongebob writters.
it kinds of interesting that some of the most well-known animators/ figures in animation industries always suggest to didn't recycle themself too much with their animation world. Like this Chuck Jones and Hayao Miyazaki
The old looney toons had such clever slapstick.
i feel like it is the old version of bizzare memes that get you because you don't expect it, like when wile e coyote dropped the wrecking ball on himself it got me so hard because i didn't see it coming whatsoever
"I know this defies the law of gravity, but I never studied law!"
6:27 actually has my DYING, I’ve never seen that clip before
We also need to acknowledge
those who did the musical scores.
Carl Stalling & Milt Franklyn
are the main names I remember,
but I think there were
a couple of others.
I seriously love this channel
Chuck Jones: Suuuuuper Geeeeenius!
LOLOOLOLOLOL
This man made my humor with Tom and Jerry. Good lad and good work
"Aaah Darling, it is love at first sight, is it not?"
Freakin genious good old comedy, this stuff is dearly missed.
That little French Skunk Pepe le Pew is a classic. But in this day and age, his short films would be yanked off the air for quote-unquote “sexual assault and harassment” and giving child viewers the wrong idea.
@@TPDManiacXC626 Yes, I'm afraid that the line "Un Femme Skunque le Pew" would be censored. Idiots. Pepe is a CLASSIC character, based upon Maurice Chevalier.
Amazing work again, thanks for your time and effort.
One thing I think we need to put up and re-examine is the "reading" idea.
I think what Chuck Jones was trying to tell us, is to spend time not only putting out, through working, but also to take in, through learning. Whether it is reading in his time, or story-telling for our ancestors, and now video content in our time.
I believe reading is crucial, especially the great works, but simply learning is key here, whether it is through watching, listening, or reading.
Only as we learn can we work, and vice versa, then the other way around, and so on, and on and on.
PeACE
No, he specifically said "reading" as in "with a book." Deliberately non-visual content, that you must imagine yourself. Reading. This is not a sentence that is up for interpretation. You can go watch the original clip yourself. He specifically means pick up a goddamn book. It's a very different way of engaging with media, and it's essential -- especially in an era when so many people just scroll through their phones and consider that "engagement."
What's the original clip called on TH-cam?
Oh man, thank you so much for that reply--I couldn't have put it better, myself. As an English teacher, I'd say roughly 98% of my job consists of my trying to find ways to get people to pick up a goddamn book.
But really, this reply is just an excuse for me to say thank you so much for the amazing videos you've been uploading these past two years. I've always been a film lover, but thanks to your work here, I'm now able to articulate a lot of what was previously just intuition (why so many contemporary action/adventure films are so incredibly boring, for instance). I always look forward to your next video, and I hope you continue to do this for a long, long time. Cheers!
no dude youtube is not a replacement for books
Mr518888
One thing I think we need to put up and re-examine is the "reading" idea.
N.S.: Drop the scare quotes, and back away with your hands up!
Let us not forget Fred Quimby and Tex Avery.
Salton Sea and Jet Boats anyone?
Or Mel Blanc
donvoisko Those are MGM boys, though. :)
J. Richard Moore Mel Blanc is voice actor; Quimby and Avery were producers.
donvoisko the WB Kids channel is doing an all-day livestream of Tom & Jerry clips. th-cam.com/video/9KZKJpOPo_E/w-d-xo.html
Back then characters and music where in sync, and the characters themeslves were aware they were characters and acted like they knew they were actors. I wish we had more of this
8:01 I loved that moment.
5:14 That frog! Brilliant stuff.
Jones' advice about having interests and influences outside of film has always stuck with me. I feel as though film discourse and filmmaking to some extent has been stifled by an insular, kind of self obsessed attachment to other films, leading to these constrained and narrow conceptions about what a film is or "should be." Follow Mr. Jones' advice: broaden your horizons and your curiosities.
Chuck Jones cartoon, "Feed The Kitty" is a must see; a big, tough dog befriends a kitten. Without a doubt my favorite cartoon & Chuck himself was overwhelmed by the response to this masterpiece that is sweet, funny & poinent at the same time. 😸 🐶 🥰
He was a master. His work made my childhood even more enjoyable. What an amazing gift.
Anyone else filled up with nostalgic melancholy right now?
* raises hand up high * I am...
I hated that singing frog so, so much when I was a kid. I'd like to meet that guy who owned it, and tell him: "it's ok buddy, I've also seen the crazy shit you saw"
what's funny about The singing frog is the skit in SpaceBalls the Movie that depicts the cartoon frog....For 30 plus years I had no idea what the frog in SpaceBalls was doing, I was thinking that's pretty stupid....hahaha....It all makes sense now!!...I can die a happy man!
rob murphy It's a Xenomorph singing the same song in SpaceBalls.
HELLO MY DARLIN HELLO MY HUNNY HELLO MY RAGTIME GAL!!
Well, to be fair, the guy WAS trying to profit off of the frog, so he kind of deserved it.
The singing frog's name is Michigan J. Frog, if I recall correctly
Chuck Jones...a true artist!
My favorite line from Mr. Jones was, “Bugs Bunny is an aspiration-Daffy Duck is a realization!”🙄😀
The editing of this video is an absolute masterpiece. The king of video essays!
6:28 that was hilarious
Yay, I’m not the only one dying just from the little “meow”. Lol It was the little things that just made it great for me.
Man it amazes me how well Chuck Jones' work still holds up!
The choices of clips makes this one of the funniest videos I've seen on TH-cam
As a kid, I got so excited when I watched the Looney Tunes intro, and my excitement doubled when I saw the name "Chuck Jones" appear. As a kid I knew that that meant it would be a good episode. I didn't know why at the time, but thanks to this video now I know.
Also: Vortigaunts. Thanks Chuck.
WOOOWWWWWW.
So, so, so, so, great.
Trace Dominguez Trace you should check out (Grave of the fireflies) with Japanese dialogue and English sub. I think you will love it :)
I love all Ghibli stuff. :D
This is amazing, THIS is all I love about animation and cartoons, they arent just funny faces, theres a ton lot more behind it! great great video!
Growing up, the two men I most wanted to be were Chuck Jones and Mel Blanc.
Lives very well lived.
Total legends
The sound effects also add to the depth of hilarity and realism in these cartoons. Take for instance the wrecking ball at 1:28 falling on the Coyote operating the machine. A simple twist of an inflated balloon and you have a crushed tractor and Coyote. Most of the sounds were used over and over again, but very effectively.
One of the greatest names of cartoons in history, and my favorite. Love his style of drawing, comedy . a genius.
I recognized almost all of the clips, I forgot how much I watched as a kid
Let's be clear.Chuck Jones never had an enemy.His legacy will always be his animation.Tony has spoken.
Chuck Jones is like my kryptonite! I managed to hold out the whole video, but as soon as he said, of inspiration "You can find it anyplace ... You can find it anyplace", I got this big teary-eyed smile on my face. Just found this channel through Nerdwriter1, this was the first video of yours I've watched, and I feel a channel binge coming on :)
Facial expressions is what I LOVE too. It's the faces they make that always get me.
absolute brilliance, his animation, the characters, the stories will last forever
Chuck Jones and Tex Avery are my heroes. Don't know how I haven't run across this video before now.
Like so many others, my growing up years during the 60's saw me from age 5 to 15. I loved (still do) the WB Looney Tunes cartoons. I never paid attention to the credits, but as it turned out the ones I really enjoyed were the Chuck Jones directed, ESPECIALLY the Road Runner/Coyote ones. Fast forward to present day, and when the opening theme starts I'm there to see who directed it.
Aside from the Road Runner series that Chuck did, my favorites are "Duck Amuck", which is pokes fun at the animation industry itself, "Duck Dodgers", "Rabbit of Seville", "Robin Hood Daffy", and the one where Bugs assumes the role of the conductor Leopold (maybe? Baton Bunny). My favorite Road Runner one is "Stop, Look, and Hasten" with the coyote eating an entire full Family Size box of ACME Triple-Strength Fortified Leg Muscle Vitamins, chasing the Road Runner while setting the road on fire with the hot rod sound, and then hitting the spring loaded wall that pops up out of the road while at full speed with outstretched arms. Every time I want/need a real good laugh, I watch it. th-cam.com/video/kM-91sthsaE/w-d-xo.html
You brought up one of his cartoons that so all shows all these points in about 30 seconds. “Robin Hood Daffy” has a great scene that shows the humor of character vs logic as well as subtleness. At one scene Daffy practices for the classic fight on the log bridge with Friar Tuck. First he practices with the stick with “Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Thrust!” As he says “Thrust” he slams his staff down on they log and it pops back an hits him in his bill, knocking it up, the logic. The first joke comes when he works through just saying but no actual actions saying, “Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Thrust!” Just when he says “Thrust! His bill pops up as had just before when he hit himself. The next joke and example of logic as well as subtleness is when Friar Tuck calmly walks up to Daffy and daffy starts his fight with, “Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin!..” but as he spins his staff, Friar Tuck calmly sticks a small stick in the spinning staff and lets the counter torque spin Daffy. Then Friar Tuck very calmly with flat expression carry Daffy’s staff away with him.
I absolutely LOVE Looney Tunes. I was lucky enough to grow up at a time when Looney Tunes played in the afternoon for TWO HOURS every weekday, along with Tom and Jerry. It was my favorite thing. I know it helped mold my sense of humor and fostered my creativity and my sometimes (often) overactive imagination. I'm sitting here watching these clips just laughing my ass off. The humor, character development, expressions, etc. we're just sooooooo damn good! The cartoons today are just so bad in comparison.
At the end of the video you talk about inspiration. Let me tell you Tony, after many years of watchting your videos, that you were and are one mine in how to watch and understand cinema.
There is so much subtlety that I missed as a child, but it still impacted how well these films worked. Brilliant.
So he did a lot of cartoons and not only a New version of Tom & Jerry. Amazing!
yeah he did m a n y, he was the guy behind How the Grinch Stole Christmas, a couple Raggedy Ann specials, worked on a movie called Gay Purr-ee, the Phantom Tollbooth movie, I think he worked on Who Framed Roger Rabbit (then again, so did everyone else), and even worked on Disney's Sleeping Beauty (uncredited). but looney tunes and tom & jerry are prolly his best known works