Ben Hardaway

Joseph Benson 'Ben' (a.k.a. 'Bugs') Hardaway (21 Mei 1895 – 5 Februari 1957) adalah seorang artis papan cerita, animator, pengisi suara, gagman, penulis dan sutradara Amerika untuk beberapa studio animasi Amerika selama animasi The Golden Age of Hollywood. Saat berada di studio Leon Schlesinger / Warner Bros. pada akhir tahun 1930-an, Hardaway, pada tahun 1938, ikut menyutradarai Porky's Hare Hunt, film pertama yang menampilkan kelinci. Ketika embrio kelinci yang tidak disebutkan namanya ini diberi lembar model baru untuk jangka pendek, karena, menurut Chuck Jones, Hardaway "tidak menggambarnya dengan baik", desainer Charlie Thorson secara tidak sengaja menawarkan nama permanen dengan memberi judul lembar model "Bugs' Bunny" karena itu dimaksudkan untuk unit Hardaway. Pada saat kelinci didesain ulang dan disempurnakan untuk film A Wild Hare, nama tersebut sudah digunakan dalam kaitannya dengan karakter dalam materi publisitas studio. Pada tahun 1940, Hardaway bergabung dengan staf Walter Lantz Productions, di mana dia membantu Walter Lantz dalam menciptakan karakter studio yang paling terkenal, Woody Woodpecker. Hardaway menulis atau ikut menulis sebagian besar cerita untuk film pendek Woody Woodpecker tahun 1940–1950, serta mengisi suara Woody antara tahun 1944 dan 1949. [biografi (dikutip) dari Wikipedia]

Joseph Benson 'Ben' (a.k.a. 'Bugs') Hardaway (May 21, 1895 – February 5, 1957) was an American storyboard artist, animator, voice actor, gagman, writer and director for several American animation studios during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. While at the Leon Schlesinger / Warner Bros. studio during the late 1930s, Hardaway, in 1938, co-directed Porky's Hare Hunt, the first film to feature a rabbit. When this unnamed, embryonic rabbit was given a new model sheet for a later short, since, according to Chuck Jones, Hardaway "didn't draw it very well", designer Charlie Thorson inadvertently offered a permanent name by titling the model sheet "Bugs' Bunny" since it was meant for Hardaway's unit. By the time the rabbit was redesigned and refined for the film A Wild Hare, the name was already being used in relation to the character in studio publicity materials. In 1940, Hardaway joined the staff of Walter Lantz Productions, where he helped Walter Lantz in creating the studio's most famous character, Woody Woodpecker. Hardaway wrote or co-wrote most of the stories for the 1940–1950 Woody Woodpecker shorts, as well as supplying Woody's voice between 1944 and 1949. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]