Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot

Claude Cat

All good things come to an end

Unfortunately he only worked in the "dream team" until the early forties when Bom Clampett and Tex Avery left Warner Brothers studio. From there he worked in parallel with Friz Freleng and Robert McKimson. However  it was then that Chuck began to hit his stride as an artist, and this streak continued through the fifties which holds some of his best regarded works, as well as a bevy of well known characters.

Way up in the Big Leagues in Termite Terrace

1933 now, hired by Friz Freleng as an assistant animator and Chuck was part of Leon Schlesinger Studio, which left a lasting impression on Jones, he admired and revered Freleng for the rest of his life.
"No one except Tex Avery had as perfect a sense of timing as did Friz Freleng"
The promotion to full fledged animator came in 1935, which saw him being transferred to work with a new director Tex Avery. Given the small working space in Schlesinger's studio, Tex Avery took his new found team made up of Bob Clampett, Virgil Ross, Sid Sutherland, Mr Avery and of course Chuck Jones to a close by building which they entitled "Termite Terrace".

Some of Chuck Jones' earlier work

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Hitting the Ground Running

By 1932, Chuck had already graduated from Chouinard Art Institute, and was in the animation industry drawing pencil portraits for a dollar piece on Olvera Street, which led to work as a cel washer for Ubbe Iwerks and assistant animator at the Walter Lantz Studio. It was under the employment of Iwerks he met his first wife Dorothy Webster - who was another cel washer at the time.

Let's call him Chuck

Now, upon hearing the name Chuck Jones, most would right associate; Warner Brothers, Looney Tunes, Bugs Bunny and for the connoisseurs of animation information Tex Avery. However Chuck Jones didn't just appear as one of the superpowers within Warner Brothers, he started off as anyone else would.
He was born in Washington September 1912, and he later moved to California with his family. As he grew up in Hollywood, a wealth of talent such as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin surrounded him, and was introduced into child acting as an occasional extra in Mac Sennet Comedies.