Friday, February 12, 2010

Chuck Jones: The Bear That Wasn't

Great Chuck heads:







10 comments:

Shane said...

I LOVE this one... I saw it one night some years back and every time I mentioned it people seemed to think I dreamt it, until one of my cartoon junkie buddies verified I wasn't nuts LOL soo good!

Max Ward said...

The bear that wasn't is a really underrated cartoon. Not much animation, but really well designed, in my opinion. I think it's one of Jones' best cartoon outside of Warners

Pete Emslie said...

As much as I love Disney animation, I have to instead acknowledge Chuck Jones as the greatest designer of human cartoon characters. In Chuck's cartoons, humans come in all sizes, shapes, and facial types - true caricatures of what people really look like. It's obvious to me that Chuck loved drawing people and exploring human "types" that would communicate immediately to the audience what they were all about. Just think of the pompous opera singer "Giovanni Jones", thuggish gambler/crook "Nasty Canasta", or the hapless schmuck who tries to exploit the singing frog from hell - these and many others are visual designs so rich in personality that they could communicate to the viewer even without any dialogue (as the last example actually did!).

Thanks, Shane, for posting these neat samples of Chuck's human "types" from a rarer cartoon for us to enjoy!

Thorsten Hasenkamm said...

Thanks for posting!

Vauben said...

Why...oh why did I not pursue animation when I was younger?
Don't answer that.

Instead you can tell me how to "follow" in the same tidy manner you do.

SteveLambe said...

Great cartoon! I thought it was Phil Spector that layed most of this out though?

http://irvspector.blogspot.com/2009/03/bear-that-wasnt-mgm-1967-irv-spector.html

Pouch Junior said...

beauTy beauty

Ivan said...

bellissimi!

david gemmill said...

i love those underbites

jake armstrong said...

this is totally my favorite chuck jones cartoon. every frame could have been put up.