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Baseball Bugs Model Sheet by Virgil Ross

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Baseball Bugs Model Sheet by Virgil Ross

$990.00

Original Model Sheet Drawing
Rendered in Colored Pencil on Animation Paper
Artist: Virgil Ross
Size: 16.5" x 13.5" inches (unframed)
Circa: 1990's
Produced By: Warner Brothers

Item Code: VROSS-0049
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COMMENTS
Virgil Ross "Baseball Bugs" Original Model Sheet Drawing (Warner Bros., undated).

This model sheet depicts five dynamic key character poses of Bugs from the Friz Freleng-directed masterpiece "Baseball Bugs" (1946).
At a baseball game between the Gashouse Gorillas and the Tea-Totallers, a heckling Bugs Bunny is forced to play all positions against the brutish Gorillas. Naturally, their muscle is no match for Bugs' wit and pitching skill. 

Renowned animator Virgil Ross illustrates Bugs playing multiple positions in a baseball game in five memorable moments. Virgil Ross has rendered this model sheet lovingly in colored pencil on a 16.5" x 13.5" sheet of animation paper, and it is in very good condition. Signed by Virgil Ross in the lower right.

VIRGIL ROSS
Virgil Ross began his animation career with the Winkler Studios in the late 1920s, then went on to Ub Iwerks, where he rose from the rank of in-betweener to animator and worked with Tex Avery. In 1935, Ross and Avery left Ub Iwerks and joined Warner Bros. where they created the first Bugs Bunny animated short, “A Wild Hare” in 1940, which brought Bugs his first Oscar nomination.

In 1942, after stints with other Warner Bros. directors such as Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett, Ross began a long career with Friz Freleng’s unit, where he animated over 230 cartoons, many of which were nominated for Oscars. Four Ross-animated cartoons won Oscars: “Tweety Pie” (1947), “Speedy Gonzales” (1955), “Birds Anonymous” (1957), and “Knighty Knight Bugs” (1958). “Knighty Knight Bugs” was Bugs Bunny’s only Oscar-winning performance.

Known for bringing personality into the characters he animated, Ross’ style is said to be one of the finest examples of personality animation in the world. Ross, who died in 1996, had said his favorite animation effort was “Rhapsody Rabbit,” in which he played some of the cartoon’s classical music and honky-tonk tunes.