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Remodeling the Rabbit. A Sidebar to the Robert McKimson Interview by Michael Barrier. I wrote about all of these Bugs Bunny model sheets in my book Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age, and I'll be quoting from that book as I move from one sheet to the next, in chronological order, starting with the model sheet drawn by ...
But I realized, in reading our exchange about the Bugs Bunny model sheets reproduced with the Bob Clampett interview in Funnyworld No. 12—published in 1970, less than a year before I interviewed Bob McKimson—that it might be helpful to reproduce all seven in the succession of model sheets that led up to McKimson's definitive 1943 model sheet.
May 22, 2023 · Bugs Bunny - 1943 Model Sheet, by Robert McKimson. Well having presented the Jones' style of Bugs Bunny from his 40's work, here is the traditional model sheet of Bugs that nearly every director had to work with, and Jones firmly committed to for at least a decade starting from 1946.
Aug 7, 2018 · This is an extremely rare Bugs Bunny Model Sheet drawn by Bob McKimson, Sr. Who had the “surest hand” of all the Warner Bros animators. McKimson worked in Bob Clampett’s unit during the 1940s. The sheet is dated 1943. It is NOT the original drawing but it is one of the few remaining ORIGINAL copies.
Bugs Bunny's personality continued to evolve over the years, from a largely "screwball" character (a la Daffy Duck ), to a mixture of "screwball" and "everyman" characteristics. His definitive design was created in 1943 by Bob Clampett, who requested one of his animators, Bob McKimson, to create new model sheets of Bugs for the short Tortoise ...
Robert McKimson was in part responsible for developing Bugs Bunny's popularity during the 1940's. Between 1942 & 1943, Bob Clampett gave a Bugs Bunny modeling assignment to McKimson, which soon became the basic Bugs Bunny model for all Warner Brothers animators.
Oct 13, 2021 · And that classic model sheet was all thanks to Robert McKimson, who was born on this day in 1910. Of course, in addition to this definitive look of Bugs, Mr. McKimson also created a number of original characters of his own including Foghorn Leghorn, Speedy Gonzales, Hippety Hopper, and the Tasmanian Devil.
