Monday, 13 March 2017

[BOOK] Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist

Chuck Amuck is an incredibly fantastic book, the way it is written is as if it is a script taken from one of the Looney Toons shorts. Chuck Jones is an American animator, filmmaker and cartoonist who is best known for his work with the Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes series.

The book is an autobiography on Chuck's life, it delves into his entire work and the characters he not only created, but also contributed to. The book isn't only an autobiography, it is written in such a way that also aids animators understand character development. It is sort of a biography into the development of Looney Toons as well.

The book is very fun to read, and it is enlightening and entertaining filled with images and drawings from early production, fully drawn and coloured cels and even photos of the animation team in production of one of the Looney Toons shorts. The book discusses each of Chuck's directed Looney Toons episodes and how it made an impact, how it was produced and what the response to the animates short was.

Overall, the book is incredibly insightful, a fantastic read for anybody who loves Warner Bros, Animation as much as myself. It is great to read about the life of Chuck Jones and how he contributed to animation, I would recommend this book to anybody who has an interest in animation and to anyone who enjoyed early Warner Bros. animation. 

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