Robert McKimson had studied art in school for about ten years, and had gotten a job at Walt Disney Studios and had worked there for about two years. After working there, he moved to the Romer Grey Studio, but unfortunately the studio was affected by the wall street crash of 1929 and many works were never released to the public.
But he was then approached by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising to do ink work and painting for their show, Looney Toons. Later on McKimson became an in-betweener for the show, but unfortunately he got into an accident resulting in a concussion. Miraculously the concussion made him able to “see” his art better in his head, thus benefiting him in his job, helping him to rise in status. He had become the head animator for Looney Toons shortly after. But he couldn’t handle all the work and had stepped down from the position and started to work with Bob Clampett. McKimson became a director for Warner Bros. in 1944 after one of their directors stepped down to do live action films.
McKimson is relatively known for the characters Taz (Tasmanian Devil) and Foghorn Leghorn. As well as the pairing of Hippety Hopper and Sylvester. He had also directed Daffy Doodles and The Pink Panther Show.
Fun fact: he was the only animator to stay the entire career of Looney Tunes. And his two brothers are also animators, one of them worked at Warner Bros. with him.
As we have to compare our director with another, I chose to use Tex Avery. Both McKimson and Avery have similar styles as they had both worked for Warner Bros. but, Avery had animated more humans than McKimson.
McKimson was born on october 13th 1910 in colorado, and died september 29th, 1977 of a heart attack.
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