Iwao Takamoto had recently graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor; Iwao, his parents and siblings were interned as enemy aliens in the Manzanar internment camp where he learned the rudiments of drawing and animation from two fellow internees who had worked as art directors at Hollywood film studios...See full bio »
A Great Dane breeder "talked [to me] about the important points of a Great Dane, like a straight back, straight legs, small chin and such. I decided to go the opposite and gave [Scooby-Doo] a hump back, bowed legs, big chin and such. Even his colour is wrong."
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Trivia:
Moved from Disney studios to Hanna-Barbera Studios in 1961.
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