Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck Cartoonist Roger Armstrong Dies At 89

[DeSwiss]

TV News Bugs Bunny Cartoonist Roger Armstrong Dies

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06/20/07
15:46:49



Veteran animator Roger Armstrong has died after suffering a heart attack. He was 89. Armstrong, who was best known for working on legendary TV cartoons Bugs Bunny and The Flintstones, passed away at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, California on June 7.

Aside from Bugs Bunny, Armstrong also worked on Warner Bros. characters such as Porky Pig and Elmer Fudd, and Walt Disney characters the Seven Dwarfs, Donald Duck and Pluto.

He is survived by a wife, a daughter, two sons and a sister.

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RIP Roger.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Rest in Peace, Roger.

[Auggie]

2. Thanks for the laughs

[BlooInBloo]

5. 2nd-ed.

[DinahMoeHum]

3. Heh heh, as usual, Daffy Duck gets snubbed - no mention of him

in the article - but there's his picture!

:rofl::rofl:

[XOKCowboy]

6. Typical

LOL He never got any respect! :)

[BlooInBloo]

8. Ssssufferin ssssuckatash!

[burrowowl]

4. RIP

Thanks for the laughs!

[XOKCowboy]

7. Ahh those Looney Toons guys were the best...

Today those cartoons would be considered too violent for our kids. Heck today they'd never even be made. Too much time and artistry was put in to those cartoons for today's market. SpongeBob can't hold a candle to Bugs Bunny. He was the coolest character ever.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

9. Thanks for all the laughs, the fun, and the memories, Mr. Armstrong.

Thank you.

[Kurovski]

10. Rest in peace

Thanks for decades or ridiculous pleasure. :-)

Condolences to the family, he made many of us very, very happy in his life, and will continue to do so through the work he left us.

[Vidar]

11. Vaya con Dios, Roger.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

12. Oh. Disney had nothing on Bugs, Daffy and Elmer. Plus, Marvin.

:cry: MKJ

[calimary]

13. Damn. A real artist at work.

If you study cartoons, how they're drawn, how feelings and emotions and such are rendered and suggested, it's just a really incredible art form.

Go with God, Roger, and make sure to do some drawings for Him!

[Lorien]

14. Thank you for that

I'm a former Disney animator (the traditional 2D sort, like Roger) and it's amazing to me how many people here in America don't consider animation a real "art form". A typical week at the studio would include figure drawing classes (both human and animal), acting classes, and seminars with great artists, authors, and sometimes even musicians on topics like storytelling, staging, symbolism and mythology. Warner's studio was much the same. A lot goes into a "simple" cartoon.

RIP Roger; you've joined so many others who have left us just within the past eight years.

[calimary]

16. WOW! Really? I'm impressed!

:toast:

What a GREAT thing to be! I was always utterly mesmerized by real, honest-to-God cartoons - not the cheap limited shit we have now. The REAL stuff, where every moving part moved. Where movement itself was studied down to a science. Beautiful, nuanced movement that took time and money to render visually...

Sigh...

I'm envious...

[Lorien]

17. Thanks! Our sort is on it's way out (it seems)

3D has taken over. It's not less expensive or less time consuming-but it IS flashy! And Pixar knows how to use it the way we used pencil and paper (most other studios don't). I was only there from the Little Mermaid through the Lion King...and I've worked on a few pictures for other studios, but for the most part my animating days are over. That's OK though; there's a season for everything, as they say!


:hi:

[calimary]

19. Yeah. 'Fraid you're correct. The computerized stuff is lovely, but

the "typical week" you described at the animation studio sounds like Heaven-on-earth to me!

How lucky you were!

[lazyriver]

15. A thank you to Roger for teaching me how to laugh and

sincere condolences to his friends and family. May he rest in peace.

[The Straight Story]

18. He took a left turn at Albuquerque....(nt)

[MrSlayer]

20. Sad. I love the Looney Tunes and Disney characters.

R.I.P. Roger and thanks.