My own personal tribute and celebration of the artistry of animation art.
When I first began collecting and selling Disney Cels, Vintage Disney Animation Art Cels and Collectable Fossil Watches many years ago, I was initially attracted to the ability of these magical images to instantly transport me back to my childhood....oh, those wonderful Saturday morning memories!
As my collection grew to what my fiance refers to as `excessive proportions' (ergo the name 'Celf-Centered'), I came to discover that animation ART is exactly that....art in its purest, most magical form.
Far more than mere `cartoons', these cels and drawings images showcase some of the finest artists anywhere.
Not a day goes by that I don't look at my cels - always with delight and child-like wonder. I know I'm not alone in my love of these wonderful images....so here's my collection!
I hope you enjoy them as much as I do! .
CelfCentered Animation was first established in October 1998. Since that time, our animation gallery has evolved into an important source for collectors of Disney animation cels, Disney original drawings and collectable fossil watches. Our goal is to provide animation art collectors with the highest quality art work available at the lowest possible price.
No matter what your collecting style or whether you're a professional collector or a beginner, CelfCentered provides you with the quality service you deserve.
We are sellers of disney cels and vintage disney animation art and cels. visit Celfcentered.com for animation art and comic cels or cells. We have Disney production cells, limited edition cells, posters and collectable fossil watches for sale.
Our website is designed for serious buyers and sellers of Walt Disney animation cels (cells), original animation drawings, cartoon cels, original Disney lobby cards, posters and fossil watches. If you are an animation art collector, CelfCentered is the best online website to buy a cel or sell animation cels online. Enjoy browsing the CelfCentered animation art gallery cels and drawings for sale and view the consignment art for sale, cels for sale and animation cels for sale or consignment.
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CelfCentered Animation was first established in October 1998.
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Chuck Jones was the most famous director of cartoons for the legendary Warner Brothers animation studios. Along with animators like Tex Avery, Chuck Jones developed Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Wile E. Coyote, and other wacky cartoon characters. After Warner Brothers closed its animation division in 1962, Jones worked on Tom and Jerry cartoons and many other projects including the hit TV version of the Dr. Seuss book How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966). In the 1980s and 1990s Warners cartoons enjoyed renewed popularity and Jones became a revered guru from animation's first golden age. Jones died in February of 2002 at his home in Corona del Mar, California, where he had been suffering from congestive heart failure.
Charles Martin Jones made more than 300 animated films over sixty-plus years, winning three Oscars as director, and, in 1996, an honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. Among the many awards and recognitions, one of those he most valued was the honorary lifetime membership from the Directors Guild of America.
During the Golden Age of animation, Jones helped bring to life many of Warner Bros.’ most famous characters—Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig. The list of characters he created himself includes Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Marvin Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Michigan J. Frog, and many others. He also produced, directed, and wrote the screenplays for Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, a television classic, as well as the feature-length film, The Phantom Tollbooth. In addition, Jones was a prolific artist whose work is displayed at galleries and museums worldwide.
Born on September 21, 1912, in Spokane, Washington, Jones grew up in Hollywood, where he observed the talents of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton and worked occasionally as a child extra in Mac Sennett comedies. After graduating from Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles (now California Institute of the Arts), Jones drew pencil portraits for a dollar each on Olvera Street. Then, in 1932, he got his first job in the fledgling animation industry as a cel washer for former Disney animator, Ubbe Iwerks.
In 1936, Jones was hired by Friz Freleng as an animator for the Leon Schlesinger Studio (later sold to Warner Bros.). Jones admired and revered Freleng for the rest of his life, saying, “No one except Tex Avery had as perfect a sense of timing as did Friz Freleng.” In 1938 he directed his first film, The Night Watchman.
He worked with and for directors Tex Avery and Bob Clampett until the early forties, when they moved on to other studios. For the remainder of his years at Warner Bros., he worked with directors Freleng and Robert McKimson. He remained at Warner Bros. until the studio was closed in 1962.
During those years, sometimes referred to later as the “Golden Years” of Warner Bros. animation, Jones produced what are considered some of the most enduring cartoons ever made; most of them still enjoying worldwide recognition daily.
When Warner Bros. closed, and after a very short stay at the Disney Studios, Jones moved to MGM Studios, where he created new episodes for the Tom and Jerry cartoon series. While there, in addition to directing The Phantom Tollbooth and Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Jones directed the Academy Award-winning film, The Dot and the Line.
Jones established his own production company, Chuck Jones Enterprises, in 1962, and produced nine half-hour animation films for television, including Rudyard Kipling’s Tikki Tavi, Mowgli's Brothers, and The White Seal, plus George Selden’s classic, The Cricket in Times Square.
One of his films, the Wagnerian mini epic, What's Opera, Doc?, was inducted into the National Film Registry for being “among the most culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant films of our time.”
He also produced, directed, and wrote the screenplays for Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, a television classic, as well as the feature-length film, The Phantom Tollbooth.