As per our current Database, Robert Givens has been died on 14 December, 2017 at Burbank, California, USA.
When Robert Givens die, Robert Givens was 99 years old.
| Popular As | Robert Givens |
| Occupation | Animation Department |
| Age | 99 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
| Born | March 2, 1918 (Hanson, Kentucky) |
| Birthday | March 2 |
| Town/City | Hanson, Kentucky |
| Nationality | Kentucky |
Robert Givens’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
Robert Givens was born in the Year of the Horse. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Horse love to roam free. They’re energetic, self-reliant, money-wise, and they enjoy traveling, love and intimacy. They’re great at seducing, sharp-witted, impatient and sometimes seen as a drifter. Compatible with Dog or Tiger.
Bob Givens began straight out of high school as an animation checker and 'in-betweener' working primarily for Grim Natwick at Disney studios in 1937. He perfected his drawing technique in subsequent years by attended night classes at the Chouinard Art Institute and the New York Art Students League.
In 1940, Bob moved over to Leon Schlesinger's animation unit at Warner Brothers as a layout and storyboard artist. He famously created early model sheets for Bugs Bunny which markedly improved upon Ben Hardaway's original designs.
Bob's finished product - with refinements by Tex Avery -- then became more or less the blueprint for future incarnations of the rabbit (Robert McKimson's fine-tuning later resulted in the finished product).
Bob's work was initially featured in A Wild Hare (1940), a cartoon which also set the tone for the personalities of both Bugs and his perennial antagonist Elmer Fudd.In 1942, Bob was drafted into army service and spent the war years making military training films at Culver City under the auspices of Rudolf Ising, one of the original creators of Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies (the other was Hugh Harman).
He returned to 'Termite Terrace' after the war, mainly as layout artist for McKimson and Chuck Jones. After 1954, he free-lanced at various animation studios, including U.P.A. (where he worked on Mr.Magoo cartoons), Hanna-Barbera and DePatie-Freleng, in addition creating graphics for numerous Western Publishing comics and children's books.
He retired in 2001 after six and a half decades in the animation business, that year also receiving the prestigious Winsor McCay Award for lifetime achievement.
