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Clampett was heavily influenced by the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, as is most visible in Porky in Wackyland (1938), wherein the entire short takes place within a Dalí-esque landscape complete with melting objects and abstracted forms.
He acquired his skills largely by copying cartoons from newspapers and comic books as a child, and by studying cartoons and their production systems from the 1940s and 1950s. His main influence is Bob Clampett.
Bill had begun in animation as an inbetweener at Disneys around the time of Snow White and had worked his way up to assistant animator. He left Disney's on the occasion of the 1941 studio strike and went to Warners, where he worked in Bob Clampett's unit as an assistant animator for Rod Scribner.
Dec 11, 2020 · Bob Clampett, Looney Tunes' looniest director When Tex Avery moved into Termite Terrace, he requested two animators who would go on to direct their own shorts: Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones.
Other artists influenced by Bob Clampett are Peter Bagge, Sally Cruikshank, Mike Fontanelli, Eric Goldberg, Stephen Hillenburg, Mike Judge and Bill Plympton. The 2019 'Looney Tunes' TV cartoons, directed and produced by Peter Browngardt and Alex Kirwan, are all done in a Clampettesque style.
Clampett left Warners in 1946 and found even greater success with his personal project, Beany and Cecil. Jim Korkis: Did working at Warners Studio lot influence the animation? Bob Clampett: Definitely.
Feb 8, 2005 · Now working in color and having inherited key Avery animators Robert McKimson and Rob Scribner, Clampett was free to explore his major preoccupation, an almost transcendentally romantic yearning to escape human limitations through animated physical transformation (6).