An animator is an actor with a pencil. Chuck Jones More Quotes by Chuck Jones More Quotes From Chuck Jones If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings. Chuck Jones drawing ends character The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out. Chuck Jones love-yourself skills simple All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show. Chuck Jones worthwhile endeavor should You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger. Chuck Jones butterfly land inspiration Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are. Chuck Jones who-we-are bugs want Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life Chuck Jones illusions-of-life animation illusion Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out. Chuck Jones drawing artist way Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. Chuck Jones creativity hands art In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but it was sheer hell for the pace of the picture. So the rapid tiptoe was invented. Chuck Jones forty-eight drawing moving The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep. Chuck Jones only-time wife husband Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it. Chuck Jones invoke animation mean You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?' Chuck Jones ifs suffering way Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about. Chuck Jones laughter joy happiness Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected. Chuck Jones esoteric ordinary needs The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be. Chuck Jones drawing essence thinking An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot. Chuck Jones keys player character All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone. Chuck Jones drawing hundred thousand Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn how to live with that razor-sharp instrument or art. An artist who comes to me with eight or ten good drawings of the human figure in simple lines has a good chance of being hired. But I will tell the artist who comes with a bunch of drawings of Bugs Bunny to go back and learn how to draw the human body. An artist who knows that can learn how to draw ANYTHING, including Bugs Bunny. Chuck Jones drawing simple art Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities. Chuck Jones convinced personality animal Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Chuck Jones fog confused color
