You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, I'm Eric Mullinski.

Now I know a lot of you discovered this podcast when Roman Mars played my episode about superhero

costume designs on his show 99% visible.

If you're not familiar with his podcast, it's about architecture and design, but the show

really kind of delves into all the creative decisions that made the world look like the

way it looks.

All the things we take for granted that once upon a time were much needed design solutions.

So a few years ago, I pitched this idea to them of doing a story about Maurice Noble,

who is the guy that designed backgrounds for loony tunes cartoons.

He is a legend in the animation world, but virtually unknown outside of people who are

hardcore loony tunes fans or actually worked in animation.

And I like to play that episode now because it fits really well into my show Imaginary

Worlds about how we create them and why we suspend our disbelief.

So without further ado, here's that episode.

This is 99% Invisible.

I'm Roman Mars.

If you grew up watching Warner Bros. cartoons and I really, 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 loony 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.

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