Tom Ray

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Thomas Archer Ray (2 August 1919 – 6 April 2010) was an American animator.

He began work at Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1937. In 1958, he became a master animator in the Robert McKimson unit. Later, he worked briefly at the Friz Freleng unit, then Chuck Jones unit, where he co-directed Adventures of the Road-Runner and several The Bugs Bunny Show episodes.

His later credits include designing the intro sequence for the Chuck Jones Tom and Jerry cartoons from 1963-1967, and later, animation on Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs.

Looney Works

•  "Uncle Tom's Bungalow"
•  "Don't Axe Me"
•  "Tortilla Flaps"
•  "Feather Bluster"
•  "Now, Hare This" 
•  "Dog Tales"
•  "Weasel While You Work"
•  "Pre-Hysterical Hare" 
•  "Gopher Broke"
•  "Mouse-Placed Kitten"
•  "China Jones"
•  "The Mouse That Jack Built"
•  "A Mutt in a Rut"
•  "Cat's Paw"
•  "Backwoods Bunny" 
•  "Bonanza Bunny"
•  "A Broken Leghorn"
•  "People Are Bunny"
•  "West of the Pesos"
•  "Wild Wild World"
•  "Crockett-Doodle-Do"
•  "Mice Follies"
•  "The Dixie Fryer"
•  "Hopalong Casualty"
•  "Trip for Tat"
•  "Dog Gone People"
•  "Cannery Woe"
•  "Zip 'n Snort"
•  "Hoppy Daze"
•  "Strangled Eggs"
•  "D' Fightin' Ones"
•  "The Abominable Snow Rabbit"
•  "Lickety-Splat"
•  "A Scent of the Matterhorn"
•  "The Rebel Without Claws"
•  "Compressed Hare"
•  "Beep Prepared" 
•  "Nelly's Folly" 
•  "A Sheep in the Deep"
•  "Zoom at the Top"
•  "Louvre Come Back to Me!"
•  "Martian Through Georgia"
•  "I Was a Teenage Thumb"
•  "Woolen Under Where"
•  "Hare-Breadth Hurry"
•  "Mad as a Mars Hare"
•  "Transylvania 6-5000"
•  "To Beep or Not to Beep"
•  "The Iceman Ducketh"
•  "War and Pieces"
•  "Zip Zip Hooray!"
•  "Roadrunner a Go-Go"
•  "Mucho Locos"
•  "Superior Duck"
•  "From Hare to Eternity"

Animation Gallery

Ray's animation is solid, with straight smears and paintbrushes.

Ray's characters tend to have "fan-shaped" eyes.

Ray's characters' movements are quite minimal, with solid gestures.

Ray's characters sometimes have wild reactions, with straightened body lines.