Draw Your Favorite Loony Toons Characters

Some art for your Friday. This is legendary Warner Brothers animator Chuck Jones talking about how to draw the characters from Loony Toons. (If you don’t know what loony toons it, scroll down…)

Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny was the imperterbable hero of the Loony Toons. He was the classic trickster, smooth and cool. No matter what the foils, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd or the Martian did, he always came out on top.

According to Bugs Bunny: 50 Years and Only One Grey Hare, Bugs was born on July 27, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York in a warren under Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. In reality, he was created by many animators and staff, includingTex Avery, who directed A Wild Hare, Bugs’ debut role, and Robert McKimson, who created the definitive “Bugs Bunny” character design. According to Mel Blanc, the character’s original voice actor, Bugs has a Flatbush accent. Bugs has had numerous catchphrases, the most prominent being a casual “Eh… What’s up, doc?”, usually said while chewing a carrot. [Wikipedia]

Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck was the foil to Bugs’ cool guy. Daffy was greedy, hasty, and just generally jerky. But he was funny. And whatever he tried to do to Bugs always backfired. His favorite word was despicable: des·pi·ca·ble | diˈspikəbəl | Deserving of hatred of contempt.

Daffy first appeared on April 17, 1937, in Porky’s Duck Hunt, directed by Tex Avery and animated by Bob Clampett. The cartoon is a standard hunter/prey pairing for whichLeon Schlesinger‘s studio was famous, but Daffy (barely more than an unnamed bit player in this short) was something new to moviegoers: an assertive, completely unrestrained, combative protagonist. Clampett later recalled, “At that time, audiences weren’t accustomed to seeing a cartoon character do these things. And so, when it hit the theaters it was an explosion. People would leave the theaters talking about this daffy duck.” [Wikipedia]

Pepe le Pew

Pepe is a very Bugs like character. He’s a confident french heart throb skunk who falls in love with a cat who had the misfortune of getting a white stripe painted down her back. This happened again and again in the cartoons and it was funny every time.

Chuck Jones, Pepé’s creator, wrote that Pepé was based (loosely) on the personality of his Termite Terrace colleague, writer Tedd Pierce, a self-styled “ladies’ man” who reportedly always assumed that his infatuations were requited.^[1] Pepé’s voice, provided by Mel Blanc, was based on Charles Boyer‘s Pépé le Moko from Algiers (1938), a remake of the 1937 French film Pépé le Moko. Eddie Selzer, animation producer—and Jones’ bitterest foe—at Warners then once profanely commented that no one would laugh at those cartoons. [Wikipedia]

Road Runner & Coyote

The Road Runner is another Buggs like hero. He never speaks but his bird noises and sound of his jumping up and running off are commonly translated as, “Mbeeb mbeep YIP daaaang.” His foil in the cartoons is the intelectual predator Wile E. Coyote. The two are a classic “Cat and Mouse” pair like Tom and Jerry where one is constantly trying to catch the other, but isn’t always outsmarted.

In each episode, instead of animal senses and cunning, Wile E. Coyote uses absurdly complex contraptions (sometimes in the manner of Rube Goldberg) and elaborate plans to pursue his quarry. [Wikipedia]

Loony Toons

If you are unaware of the Loony Toons, start here:

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Watch The Loony Toons

I picked up all of these episodes of Loony Toons on iTunes. Here are links

• Bugs Bunny, Vol. 1 – Bugs Bunny
• Bugs Bunny, Vol. 2 – Bugs Bunny
• Bugs Bunny, Vol. 3 – Bugs Bunny
• Bugs Bunny, Vol. 4 – Bugs Bunny

Sources

• Gizmodo
• Wikipedia, Road Runner, Buggs Bunny, Pepe le Pew, Daffy Duck