Original layout drawing with dialog by Chuck Jones, graphite on 12 field animation paper for his 1952 "Rabbit Seasoning."
Original background layout for the Chuck Jones directed "Rabbit Seasoning" by Maurice Noble, graphite and colored pencil on 12 field animation paper. Both are genius!
Original hand-painted background, 10.5" x 12.5" from the 1949 Chuck Jones-directed & Academy Award-nominated short cartoon, "Mouse Wreckers." The background is presented with a recreated hand-inked, hand-painted ovelay cel matched to the scene.
“Yeah, yeah. Sure, sure.” So it goes with Hubie & Bertie, two hobo
mice that want to set up house-keeping in a new home patrolled the champion
mouser, Claude Cat (pun alert: get it?)
Suffice it to say that Claude ends up shivering in the upper branches of
a tree as our two intrepid rodents roast marshmallows over a roaring flame in
the fireplace.
Original background layout drawing by Maurice Noble for the 1952 Chuck Jones directed “Rabbit Seasoning.” Graphite and colored pencil on 12 field (10.5″ x 12.5″) two-hole punch animation paper. Selected for inclusion in the upcoming Chuck Jones exhibit at AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences) opening May 14, 2010 in Los Angeles.