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Thursday, December 15, 2005

GIVENS, Bob

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Annie Award: Winsor McCay Award 2001


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Occupation/Title
Layout artist, writer, production designer, animator, and character designer.

Education/Training
“I went to Chouinard, mostly nights, and then I went to Bistram School, New York Art Students League and Jepson in Los Angeles. Quite a bit of art training then and over the years…Drawing is the basis of all this business. You can’t get too much of it.”

Career Outline
Givens got his start when Hardie Gramatky and Don Graham got him a job at Disney. This was when they were hiring for Snow White. He started as a checker on The Old Mill, after that he started to work on Snow White. While working at Disney he mostly worked on pieces concerning Donald Duck.

After leaving Disney, Givens went to work at Schlesinger’s/Warner Bros. It was here that he worked with Chuck Jones and Tex Avery. Givens boasts that in his time at Warner Bros he boarded some 500 features. “The boards were pretty close to the finished product, at least in the expressions. Mel Blanc recorded from those damn things!”

Givens has also worked with many other studios, including Hanna-Barbera and UPA.

Comments On Style
Givens may be best known for his designs done on Bugs Bunny. His early ideas for the rabbit have him with a fairly oblong head. One might say that this take is actually more life like than the character designs that came later.

That being said, Givens’ style is one of adaptation. He can draw anything basically, depending on what is required of the layout. He uses reference material but is also capable of “winging it,” when appropriate.

Chuck Jones on Bob Givens and their art styles: “I didn’t draw terribly well at that time. Bob Givens had come over, and he drew beautifully; he was about nineteen years old, and he was fantastic.”

Influences
Givens worked along side the greats at a young age, and if anything he could be thought of as an influence on later character designers, though his early work is along the lines of Charlie Thorson Disney type work.

Anecdotes
Givens worked on the first batch of Raid bug commercials in the 1950s. “We sent them into the agency and figured that’s the end of it. They loved it and we did them for 17 years.”

Miscellaneous

Filmography
"Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends" (1990) TV Series (layout artist)
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988) (layout artist)
The Night of the Living Duck (1988) (layout artist)
The Duxorcist (1987) (layout artist)
"The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show" (1986) TV Series (layout artist)
"The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour" (1985) TV Series (layout artist)
Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island (1983) (layout artist)
The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981) (layout artist)
"Baggy Pants & the Nitwits" (1977) TV Series (design)
Bugs Bunny's Easter Special (1977) (TV) (layout artist)
"The Pink Panther Laugh and the Half Hour and Half Show" (1976)(animator)
"Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!" (1971) TV Series (layout artist)
Pink Pranks (1971) (layout artist)
Cattle Battle (1971) (layout artist)
Pink Tuba-Dore (1971) (layout artist)
Fastest Tongue in the West (1971) (layout artist)
The Egg and Ay-Yi-Yi! (1971) (layout artist)
The Cat in the Hat (1971) (TV) (layout artist)
"Doctor Dolittle" (1970) TV Series (layout artist)
Injun Trouble (1969) (layout artist)
"Here Comes the Grump" (1969) TV Series (layout artist)
Bugged by a Bee (1969) (layout artist)
Shamrock and Roll (1969) (layout artist)
Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too! (1969) (layout artist)
Fistic Mystic (1969) (layout artist)
The Great Carrot-Train Robbery (1969) (layout artist)
Bunny and Claude: We Rob Carrot Patches (1968) (layout artist)
Chimp & Zee (1968) (layout artist) (as Bob Givens)
"The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour" (1968) TV Series (layout artist)
Flying Circus (1968) (layout artist)
See Ya Later Gladiator (1968) (layout artist)
Feud with a Dude (1968) (layout artist)
Skyscraper Caper (1968) (layout artist)
Big Game Haunt (1968) (layout artist)
Hocus Pocus Powwow (1968) (layout artist)
Fiesta Fiasco (1967) (layout artist)
Merlin the Magic Mouse (1967) (layout artist)
"The Super 6" (1966) TV Series (layout artist)
The A-Tom-inable Snowman (1966) (layout artist)
Filet Meow (1966) (layout artist)
Love Me, Love My Mouse (1966) (layout artist)
False Hare (1964) (layout artist)
The Iceman Ducketh (1964) (layout artist)
Bartholomew Versus the Wheel (1964) (layout artist)
Dumb Patrol (1964) (layout artist)
Transylvania 6-5000 (1963) (layout artist)
I Was a Teenage Thumb (1963) (animator) (layout artist)
"The Bugs Bunny Show" (1960) TV Series (layout artist)
The Dixie Fryer (1960) (layout artist)
Crockett-Doodle-Do (1960) (layout artist)
West of the Pesos (1960) (layout artist)
Dime to Retire (1955) (layout artist)
Jumpin' Jupiter (1955) (layout artist)
Past Perfumance (1955) (layout artist)
Lighthouse Mouse (1955) (layout artist)
All Fowled Up (1955) (layout artist)
Beanstalk Bunny (1955) (layout artist)
Feather Dusted (1955) (layout artist)
Quack Shot (1954) (layout artist)
Gone Batty (1954) (layout artist)
The Oily American (1954) (layout artist)
Devil May Hare (1954) (layout artist)
Little Boy Boo (1954) (layout artist)
No Parking Hare (1954) (layout artist)
Bell Hoppy (1954) (layout artist)
Design for Leaving (1954) (layout artist)
Wild Wife (1954) (layout artist)
Cats A-Weigh! (1953) (layout artist)
Of Rice and Hen (1953) (layout artist)
Easy Peckin's (1953) (layout artist)
Cat-Tails for Two (1953) (layout artist)
Plop Goes the Weasel (1953) (layout artist)
There Auto Be a Law (1953) (layout artist)
Muscle Tussle (1953) (layout artist)
A Peck o' Trouble (1953) (layout artist)
Upswept Hare (1953) (layout artist)
Fool Coverage (1952) (layout artist)
Rabbit's Kin (1952) (layout artist)
The Super Snooper (1952) (layout artist)
The EGGcited Rooster (1952) (layout artist)
Hoppy-Go-Lucky (1952) (layout artist)
The Draft Horse (1942) (character designer)
Rhapsody in Rivets (1941) (character designer)
Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (1941) (character designer)
Tortoise Beats Hare (1941) (character designer)
Stage Fright (1940) (character designer)
Ghost Wanted (1940) (character designer)
A Wild Hare (1940) (character designer)
Tom Thumb in Trouble (1940) (character designer) Mighty Hunters (1940) (character designer)
Snow White (1937)
The Old Mill (1937)

Honors

Annie Award: Winsor McCay Award 2001


Related Links
IMDB(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0321454/)
John Cawly’s Cataroo.com Interview(http://www.cataroo.com/hgivens.html)
Michael Barrier.com Chuck Jones interview (http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Funnyworld/jones/interview_chuck_jones.htm)


Bibliographic References
All direct quotes were taken from interviews provided in the above links.

 

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