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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
"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.
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.
