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Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio. He 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. 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. ==Early life== Jones was born on September 21, 1912 in Spokane, Washington, the son of Mabel McQuiddy (Martin) and Charles Adams Jones.〔()〕 He later moved with his parents and three siblings to the Los Angeles, California area.〔 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. His father, Jones recounts, would start every new business venture by purchasing new stationery and new pencils with the company name on them. When the business failed, his father would quietly turn the huge stacks of useless stationery and pencils over to his children, requiring them to use up all the material as fast as possible. Armed with an endless supply of high-quality paper and pencils, the children drew constantly. Later, in one art school class, the professor gravely informed the students that they each had 100,000 bad drawings in them that they must first get past before they could possibly draw anything worthwhile. Jones recounted years later that this pronouncement came as a great relief to him, as he was well past the 200,000 mark, having used up all that stationery. Jones and several of his siblings went on to artistic careers.〔Jones, Chuck (1989). ''Chuck Amuck : The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist''. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux; ISBN 0-374-12348-9〕〔Jones, Chuck (1996). ''Chuck Reducks: Drawing from the Fun Side of Life''. New York: Warner Books; ISBN 0-446-51893-X〕 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 cell 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 on to 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".〔(Chuck Jones Interview (page 3/5) )〕 While at Iwerks, he met a cel painter named Dorothy Webster, who later became his first wife. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chuck Jones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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