The Cat That Collected Rabbits

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It also gives them their characteristic floating feel. Angora rabbits produce coats in a variety of colours, from white through tan, gray, and brown to black. It felts very easily, even on the animal itself if it is not groomed frequently. They have the most halo and warmth, but can felt very easily through abrasion and humidity and can be excessively warm in a finished garment. The fibre is normally blended with wool to give the yarn elasticity, as Angora fibre is not naturally elastic. The blend decreases the softness and halo as well as the price of the finished object.

English, French, Satin and Giant. There are many other breeds, one of the more common being German. Each breed produces different quality and quantity of fibre, and has a different range of colours.

In China, there are more than 50 million Angora rabbits, growing 2,—3, tonnes per year. Most breeds of Angora rabbits moult with their natural growth cycle about every four months. Many producers of the fibre pluck the fur of these breeds. Plucking is, in effect, pulling out the moulted fur. Plucking ensures a minimum of guard hair , and the fur is not as matted when plucked as when it is collected from the rabbit's cage.

However, plucking a rabbit is time consuming, so some producers shear the rabbit instead. While this results in slightly lower quality fleece, as the guard hairs are included, it does take less time and results in more fleece. Also, not all breeds of Angora moult, and if the rabbit does not naturally moult, it cannot be plucked. This cartoon—the first in which he is depicted as a gray bunny instead of a white one—is also notable as the rabbit's first singing role.

Charlie Thorson , lead animator on the film, gave the character a name.

He had written "Bugs' Bunny" on the model sheet that he drew for Hardaway. In Hare-um Scare-um , a newspaper headline reads, "Happy Hardaway. Thorson had been approached by Tedd Pierce , head of the story department, and asked to design a better rabbit.

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The decision was influenced by Thorson's experience in designing hares. For Hardaway, Thorson created the model sheet previously mentioned, with six different rabbit poses. Thorson's model sheet is "a comic rendition of the stereotypical fuzzy bunny". He had a pear-shaped body with a protruding rear end. His face was flat and had large expressive eyes.

He had an exaggerated long neck, gloved hands with three fingers, oversized feet, and a "smart aleck" grin. The end result was influenced by Walt Disney Animation Studios ' tendency to draw animals in the style of cute infants. This time the rabbit looks more like the present-day Bugs, taller and with a similar face—but retaining the more primitive voice. Candid Camera' s Elmer character design is also different: Bryan 's character voice is already established. For the film, Avery asked Givens to remodel the rabbit. The result had a closer resemblance to Max Hare.

He had a more elongated body, stood more erect, and looked more poised. If Thorson's rabbit looked like an infant, Givens' version looked like an adolescent. Immediately following on A Wild Hare , Bob Clampett 's Patient Porky features a cameo appearance by Bugs, announcing to the audience that rabbits have been born. However, Bugs' voice and personality in this cartoon is noticeably different, and his design was slightly altered as well; Bugs' visual design is based on the prototype rabbit in Candid Camera , but with yellow gloves and no buck teeth, has a lower-pitched voice and a more aggressive, arrogant and thuggish personality instead of a fun-loving personality.

After Pet Rabbit , however, subsequent Bugs appearances returned to normal: By , Bugs had become the number one star of Merrie Melodies. The series was originally intended only for one-shot characters in films after several early attempts to introduce characters Foxy , Goopy Geer , and Piggy failed under Harman — Ising. By the mids, under Leon Schlesinger , Merrie Melodies started introducing newer characters.

Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid shows a slight redesign of Bugs, with less-prominent front teeth and a rounder head. The character was reworked by Robert McKimson , then an animator in Clampett's unit. The redesign at first was only used in the films created by Clampett's unit, but in time it would be taken up by the other directors, with Freleng and Frank Tashlin the first. When McKimson was himself promoted to director, he created yet another version, with more slanted eyes, longer teeth and a much larger mouth.

He used this version until as did Art Davis for the one Bugs Bunny film he directed, Bowery Bugs when he started using the version he had designed for Clampett. Jones would come up with his own slight modification, and the voice had slight variations between the units.

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Since Bugs' debut in A Wild Hare , he appeared only in color Merrie Melodies films making him one of the few recurring characters created for that series in the Schlesinger era prior to the full conversion to color , alongside Elmer predecessor Egghead, Inki , Sniffles , and Elmer himself. While Bugs made a cameo in Porky Pig's Feat , this was his only appearance in a black-and-white Looney Tunes film.

He did not star in a Looney Tunes film until that series made its complete conversion to only color cartoons beginning in Bugs' popularity soared during World War II because of his free and easy attitude, and he began receiving special star billing in his cartoons by By that time, Warner Bros. This cartoon has since been pulled from distribution due to its depiction of Japanese people. As a result, the Marine Corps made Bugs an honorary Marine master sergeant. Some notable trainees included Clark Gable and Charles Bronson.

In this cameo animated by McKimson, with Blanc providing the usual voice , Bugs after being threatened at gunpoint pops out of a rabbit hole, saying his usual catchphrase; after hearing the orchestra play the wrong theme song, he realizes "Hey, I'm in the wrong picture! Although it was usually Porky Pig who brought the Looney Tunes films to a close with his stuttering, "That's all, folks! It was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in , becoming the first cartoon short to receive this honor.

This show packaged many of the post Warners cartoons with newly animated wraparounds. After two seasons, it was moved from its evening slot to reruns on Saturday mornings. The Bugs Bunny Show changed format and exact title frequently but remained on network television for 40 years. The packaging was later completely different, with each cartoon simply presented on its own, title and all, though some clips from the new bridging material were sometimes used as filler.

He would not appear in new material on-screen again until Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals aired in Bugs also starred in several theatrical compilation features during this time, including the United Artists distributed documentary Bugs Bunny: Superstar [35] [36] and Warner Bros. However, since the film was being produced by Disney , Warner Bros. Because of this, both characters are always together in frame when onscreen.

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Roger Rabbit was also one of the final productions in which Mel Blanc voiced Bugs as well as the other Looney Tunes characters before his death in Bugs later appeared in another animated production featuring numerous characters from rival studios: Bugs also made guest appearances in the early s television series Tiny Toon Adventures , as the principal of Acme Looniversity and the mentor of Babs and Buster Bunny.

He made further cameos in Warner Bros. Bugs returned to the silver screen in Box-Office Bunny This was the first Bugs Bunny cartoon since to be released in theaters and it was created for Bugs' 50th anniversary celebration. It was followed by Blooper Bunny , a cartoon that was shelved from theaters, [40] but later premiered on Cartoon Network in and has since gained a cult following among animation fans for its edgy humor.

The film also introduced the character Lola Bunny , who becomes Bugs' new love interest. Back in Action , released in and directed by Joe Dante. Unlike Space Jam , Back in Action was a box-office bomb , [47] though it did receive more positive reviews from critics. In , Bugs appeared on a U. The stamp is number seven on the list of the ten most popular U. The introduction of Bugs onto a stamp was controversial at the time, as it was seen as a step toward the 'commercialization' of stamp art.

The postal service rejected many designs and went with a postal-themed drawing. Avery Dennison printed the Bugs Bunny stamp sheet, which featured "a special ten-stamp design and was the first self-adhesive souvenir sheet issued by the U. In the action comedy Loonatics Unleashed , his definite descendant Ace Bunny is the leader of the Loonatics team and seems to have inherited his ancestor's Brooklyn accent and comic wit.

The characters feature new designs by artist Jessica Borutski. Among the changes to Bugs' appearance were the simplification and enlargement of his feet, as well as a change to his fur from gray to a shade of mauve though in the second season, his fur was changed back to gray. At the same time, Bugs is more openly annoyed at Daffy's antics in the series sometimes to the point of aggression , compared to his usual carefree personality from the original cartoons.

Bugs and Daffy are close friends with Porky Pig in the series, although Bugs tends to be a more reliable friend to Porky than Daffy is. Bugs also dates Lola Bunny in the show despite the fact that he finds her to be "crazy" and a bit too talkative at first he later learns to accept her personality quirks, similar to his tolerance for Daffy. Unlike the original cartoons, Bugs lives in a regular home which he shares with Daffy, Taz whom he treats as a pet dog and Speedy Gonzales , in the middle of a cul-de-sac with their neighbors Yosemite Sam, Granny , and Witch Hazel.

In , Bugs starred in the direct-to-video film Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run , [54] and later returned to television yet again as the star of Cartoon Network and Boomerang 's comedy series New Looney Tunes formerly Wabbit. The Fight for Fame , Looney Tunes: Bugs almost always wins these conflicts, a plot pattern which recurs in Looney Tunes films directed by Chuck Jones. Concerned that viewers would lose sympathy for an aggressive protagonist who always won, Jones arranged for Bugs to be bullied, cheated, or threatened by the antagonists while minding his own business, justifying his subsequent antics as retaliation or self-defense.

He's also been known to break the fourth wall by "communicating" with the audience, either by explaining the situation e.

Bugs will usually try to placate the antagonist and avoid conflict, but when an antagonist pushes him too far, Bugs may address the audience and invoke his catchphrase "Of course you realize this means war! Other directors, such as Friz Freleng , characterized Bugs as altruistic. Bugs' nonchalant carrot-chewing standing position, as explained by Freleng, Jones and Bob Clampett , originated in a scene from the film It Happened One Night , in which Clark Gable 's character Peter Warne leans against a fence, eating carrots rapidly and talking with his mouth full to Claudette Colbert 's character.

This scene was well known while the film was popular, and viewers at the time likely recognized Bugs Bunny's behavior as satire. Coincidentally, the film also features a minor character, Oscar Shapely, who addresses Peter Warne as "Doc", and Warne mentions an imaginary person named "Bugs Dooley" to frighten Shapely.

The carrot-chewing scenes are generally followed by Bugs' most well-known catchphrase, "What's up, Doc? Avery explained later that it was a common expression in his native Texas and that he did not think much of the phrase. When the cartoon was first screened in theaters, the "What's up, Doc? The phrase was sometimes modified for a situation. For example, Bugs says "What's up, dogs?

He might also greet Daffy with "What's up, Duck? Another variation is used in Looney Tunes: Several Chuck Jones films in the late s and s depict Bugs travelling via cross-country and, in some cases, intercontinental tunnel-digging, ending up in places as varied as Barcelona, Spain Bully for Bugs , the Himalayas The Abominable Snow Rabbit , and Antarctica Frigid Hare all because he "knew he shoulda taken that left toin at Albukoikee.

The confused response to his "left toin" comment also followed a pattern. Since when is Pismo Beach inside a cave? The following are the various vocal artists who have voiced Bugs Bunny over the last plus years for Warner Bros. Is the Order a Rabbit? An original video animation by Production doA was released in November A second OVA will be released in and a third anime season is scheduled for Cocoa Hoto enters the cafe Rabbit House, assuming there are rabbits to be cuddled. She quickly befriends Chino with the full intention of becoming like her older sister, much to Chino's annoyance.

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From there she will experience her new life and befriend many others, including the military-influenced, yet feminine Rize Tedeza, the playful Chiya Ujimatsu who goes at her own pace, and the impoverished Syaro Kirima who commands an air of nobility and admiration despite her background. Slowly, through slices of life, often comedic, Cocoa becomes irreplaceable in her new friends' lives, with Chino at the forefront.

An anime television series adaptation by White Fox aired in Japan between April 10 and June 26, and was simulcast by Crunchyroll. The series is licensed by Sentai Filmworks in North America. A second season titled Is the Order a Rabbit?? An original video animation episode, Is the Order a Rabbit?? On September 16, , it was announced that a second OVA project will be released in and a third anime season is scheduled for release in Characters and songs from Is the Order a Rabbit? A visual novel developed by 5pb. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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