RIP BOB GIVENS
Robert “Bob” Givens, an animator whose
long and celebrated career brought him
through the gamut of 20th century
animation milestones from Walt Disney’s
Snow White, to the first Bugs Bunny
cartoon, to Hanna-Barbera’s Quick
Draw McGraw , died on December 14 at
St. Joseph’s Hospital in Burbank at age
99. His death was announced by his
daughter, Mariana Givens, on Facebook.
Givens graduated high school in southern
California in 1936, working as a
freelance artist for a year before
joining the Walt Disney Studio. He was an
animation checker on several shorts
before joining the team of Disney’s
groundbreaking feature Snow White and
the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
Givens then joined Warner Bros., where
he worked under legends Chuck Jones
and Tex Avery. One of Givens’ biggest
career moments came in 1940, when
Avery asked him to review designs of a
new character — a grey rabbit that was
coming across “too cute” for the
slapstick cartoons. Givens went on to
create the first official design for Bugs
Bunny, now the iconic lead character of
the Looney Tunes franchise, in the
Merrie Melodies short A Wild Hare .
Ironically, after completing WB short
The Draft Horse (1942), Givens was
drafted into World War II, working on
military training films as part of his
service. He returned to WB in the ‘50s,
working as a layout artist until the
studio shuttered in 1954. Givens went on
to work at various studios including UPA
and Hanna-Barbera, then followed
other former WB staff to the newly
formed DePatie-Freleng shop. As WB
continued evolving, Given cycled through
top studios and returned to Bugs’ home
base when the studio reformed.
Givens worked with Jones one last time
on Chuck’s 2001 direct-to-video feature
Timber Wolf ; Jones died the following
year and Givens afterward mostly
retired from the field, although he
continued to teach and give talks into
his 90s.
The latest works of Bob Giffens
Robert “Bob” Givens, an animator whose
long and celebrated career brought him
through the gamut of 20th century
animation milestones from Walt Disney’s
Snow White, to the first Bugs Bunny
cartoon, to Hanna-Barbera’s Quick
Draw McGraw , died on December 14 at
St. Joseph’s Hospital in Burbank at age
99. His death was announced by his
daughter, Mariana Givens, on Facebook.
Givens graduated high school in southern
California in 1936, working as a
freelance artist for a year before
joining the Walt Disney Studio. He was an
animation checker on several shorts
before joining the team of Disney’s
groundbreaking feature Snow White and
the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
Givens then joined Warner Bros., where
he worked under legends Chuck Jones
and Tex Avery. One of Givens’ biggest
career moments came in 1940, when
Avery asked him to review designs of a
new character — a grey rabbit that was
coming across “too cute” for the
slapstick cartoons. Givens went on to
create the first official design for Bugs
Bunny, now the iconic lead character of
the Looney Tunes franchise, in the
Merrie Melodies short A Wild Hare .
Ironically, after completing WB short
The Draft Horse (1942), Givens was
drafted into World War II, working on
military training films as part of his
service. He returned to WB in the ‘50s,
working as a layout artist until the
studio shuttered in 1954. Givens went on
to work at various studios including UPA
and Hanna-Barbera, then followed
other former WB staff to the newly
formed DePatie-Freleng shop. As WB
continued evolving, Given cycled through
top studios and returned to Bugs’ home
base when the studio reformed.
Givens worked with Jones one last time
on Chuck’s 2001 direct-to-video feature
Timber Wolf ; Jones died the following
year and Givens afterward mostly
retired from the field, although he
continued to teach and give talks into
his 90s.
The latest works of Bob Giffens
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