Art School and Early Career
After leaving active Air Force duty and with the benefits of the Korean War G.I. Bill, he attended Chouinard Art Institute (which later merged with the California Academy of Music to form California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) from 1957 to 1960. He was a Disney scholar, and received professional animation training at the University of Southern California with Disney veteran animator Art Babbitt. After graduation Luckey worked for a time as Babbitt's assistant/apprentice at Quartet Films in Los Angeles.
He served as an animator for The Alvin Show in 1961. He also worked as an animator and sequence director on a pilot for Mad magazine television special produced by long time friends Jimmy Murakami and Gordon Bellamy.
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