Heart and Soul: The Timeless Art of Chuck Jones (2007)

A short presentation of the artistic work of a brilliant animator.
© Lions Gate Films, Inc. 2007

[@danielgudinojuarez6729]

Chuck Jones is truly my favorite director within the looney tunes franchise!!! 😌😌😌💜

[@edryba4867]

You can’t start ANY animation documentary (especially a Chuck Jones documentary) any better than with the face and voice of the great June Foray! She was one amazing Voice Actress (and I’m pretty sure she’d prefer “Actress” to “Actor”, as so many women in the acting business do now). She was a very friendly, warm and loving person. And I miss her so much because… she was my friend! And she thought my wife was terrific, because she IS!

[@annalyon8443]

Remember cable TV. In the early 1980s I stayed up til something like 3 am to watch an A&E podium for Chuck Jones, a format of young folks asking questions. I soooo hope soooomewhere that genius discussion is kept safe and open to access somewhere…somehow.

[@johnprovince5304]

Virgil Ross once told me that Chuck's layouts were so tight it was really just inbetweening.

[@jacksonfearington5164]

you are so friggin lucky

[@metaloutlander]

I was lucky enough to work for Chuck, he was a really nice man. He was sharp until the end. Chuck said every artist has a 100,000 bad drawings in them so get drawing.

[@nightisright1873]

metaloutlander cool you worked for him what did you do for him

[@liquidatedrice5274]

​@@nightisright1873Would like to know this too

[@annalyon8443]

1979-1980, as a random hire at a vaunted Chicago art studio, it was suggested to me by visiting ad guys from Michigan, looking at fully developed art for an imaginary catfood commercial I had imagined, that I might become involved in film story development, etc. Later catfood commercial brand ad series were flattering because they were close to what those early ideas I had. Cannot ignore that coincidence. I was just such an ignorant innocent.

[@natron2479]

Chuck Jones is the reason why I want to be a cartoonist. I’m also inspired by JG Quintel for Regular Show, and I’m also inspired by a lot of Anime that I watch. The art style I use for my drawings is like a Chuck Jones Cartoon with an Anime vibe to it.

[@avtpro]

Definitely one of my very favorite animations was Ricki Ticki Tavi. I didnt know tell recently that Chuck Jones did it.

[@orsonwelles4254]

Genius

[@natanielalvarez7954]

un maestro, uno de mis héroes ❤️❤️❤️

[@nellgwenn]

June is wearing a Penelope and Pepe necklace.

[@sesamefan4049]

No. It's Rocket J. "Rocky" Squirrel.

[@edryba4867]

I was just going to say that, and was pleased to find that YOU already did! And that “Rocky” necklace is the only one in the world. It was made exclusively for June. They may have buried her with it, but I have no actual information about it. That’s just a guess.

[@nellgwenn]

@@echoecho3108 I was talking about her necklace. Penelope is the name of the cat Pepe chased around.

[@ralphjenkinsak]

John: I remembered during the time when he's alive, I used to watched the chuck jones show at the age of nine during 2000's.

[@limberlad]

Love Chuck Jones, but I don't think enough credit is given to Bob Clampert and Fritz Frieling here

[@blakhhh]

12:00 "you have to be born to have talent, to draw." Does she think drawing skills are god given? Drawing from life lots and reading are how Chuck describes how he got good.

[@ACcountryFan]

Nevertheless there's still an underlying natural talent...meaning that it comes naturally without having been taught the craft. His being able to skip several grades in high school, as his widow mentions, shows how much of an intellect he had. That sort of thing is something you can't practice and it can't be taught...so, yes, June Foray was rather accurate when she said what she did. It's a compliment to Chuck, anyway.

[@blakhhh]

​@@ACcountryFan Its a myth that a skill as specific as illustration can just come from genetics, he would have draw and read as a child and gotten good at it, it only takes an hour a day to become vastly better than others at something, even at a young age. Maybe a predisposition for motivation, but saying its just natural talent is an insult to the actual craft.

[@ToruKun1]

"You have to be born to have talent to draw" literally means you just have to exist and you can get good at drawing. Talent is 99% practice and 1% innate skill.

[@lauratanner8475]

I know it's an unpopular opinion nowadays but I do believe there is a genetic component to certain talents. Even it's just the underlying interest in something. I could never understand where my obsession with the guitar came from but from the earliest age I was drawn to it. When I was 14 I met my real father who is also a guitarist.

[@masterluisYTV]

you do need talent for this. ust like singing.it aint born on everyone

[@helenamaria710]

Singing yes, but drawing can be learned! If you love to do it, that will show!