This bristol tweet from film director Amos Posner blew up across social media yesterday. It's a photo taken at the What s Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York:
Jones' rules, first made public when he published them in his 1999 autobiography Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist, are probably pretty familiar to animation students and Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote fanatics. They are a fascinating testament to the need for clearly defined systems within a wacky creative process.
Fun fact: In an interview for the book Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in its Golden Age , Michael Maltese, a writer who worked for Jones on the Roadrunner bristol series, said that he had never heard of these rules.
11. The Coyote is not allowed to catch or eat the Road Runner. March 4, 2015 - 11:01pm
DID YOU KNOW? Marlon Brando hated memorizing lines so much that he posted cue cards everywhere to help him get through scenes. He even asked for lines to be written on an actress's posterior. (That request was denied.)
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