This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

If you grew up watching Warner Brothers cartoons, and I really hope you did,

you might remember seeing the words directed by Chuck Jones in big letters in the opening credits.

Chuck Jones worked for decades on cartoons like Looney Tunes from the 1930s until his death in 2002. In addition to being a director,

he was also an animator. He gave Bugs Bunny that cocky slouch. He gave Daffy Duck those mischievous eyes.

I think Bugs Bunny's more mischievous. Daffy Duck those mischievous eyes. I think Bugs Bunny's more mischievous.

Daffy Duck is insane.

He made a mute Wiley Coyote hold up signs that commented on the sad irony of his cartoon life.

In 1996, Jones accepted an Academy Award

for Lifetime Achievement.

Well, I stand guilty before the world of directing over 300 cartoons in the last 50 or 60 years. Hopefully, this means you've forgiven me.

Chuck Jones is the name most people remember when they think about those cartoons.

But I want to talk about another guy, an artist who worked with Chuck Jones, a guy who wasn't just important to Looney Tunes, he changed the entire art of animation.

Yeah, the amazing thing about this guy is that he never drew Bugs Bunny or Elmer Fudd or your 70 Sam or any of those

characters he drew the backgrounds behind those characters so if you think of

like if you ever seen Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a half century.

Daffy duck lands on this weird futuristic planet.

Or you know the Roadrunner cartoons that jagged bright abstract

desert that is the work of Maurice Noble.

Here helping us tell this story is reporter Eric Malinsky.

Hey.

Eric used to work in animation as a storyboard artist on the Rugrats and a couple of other

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