Clampett issued an interestingness in life and puppetry from his early teens in Los Angeles. The youth Clampett invented the offset Mick Creeping dolls for Walt Disney. As Clampett would suddenly arrears in interviews, Disney was impressed with the youth artist, and promised him a job. However, a need of blank at Disney's tiny Hyperion studio prevented Clampett from picking the position. Instead, he affixed a job in 1931 at the studio of Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising where he worked on the studio's Half-baked Tunes and Merrie Melodies series. In his beginning daytime at the studio, Clampett principally worked for Friz Freleng, under whose counselor Clampett grew into an ruling animator. In 1935, he reared the studio's beginning majors star, Porky Pig, who comed in Freleng's cinema I Haven't Got a Hat .

Clampett moved to Tex Avery's canton this related year, and the two soon showed an irreverent way of animateness this would set Warner Bros. parenthesis from its competitors. Workings aside from the individual animators in a ramshackle wooden building, Avery and Clampett soon coined they were not the lonesome inhabitants. They shared the structure with thousands of tiny termites. They christened the structure Termite Terrace, a advertizement eventually used by fans and historians to portrayal the stallion studio.

They were soon joined by animators Chow Jones, Vergil Ross and Sid Sutherland, and worked virtually inferior parry on their new, groundbreaking manner of wittiness for the future year. It was a barbaric moorage with an around college fraternity-like atmosphere. Animators would customarily trail pranks such as gluing composition streamers to the wings of flies. Leon Schlesinger, who peculiarly ventured there, was reputed on one address to cause remarked in his lisping voice, "pew, let me out of here! The lonely liaison missing is the audio of a flushing toilet!!"

Clampett approximately that age pressured studio capitulum Leon Schlesinger to die him a inadvertent as a director, and was finally impart this accidental on an pliable succession for the Joe E. Brownness celluloid What's Your Birthday? , animating signs of the zodiac. That led to what was frequently a co-directing stretch with comrade energizer Eats Jones for the financially ailing Ub Iwerks, whom Schlesinger subcontracted to take multifold Porky Pig shorts. These shorts featured the short-lived and ofttimes unpopular Gabby Seat as Porky's sidekick. Disdain Clampett and Jones' contributions, however, Iwerks was the troglodyte credited director.

Clampett was promoted to conductor in stayed 1937, and he soon entered his especial golden age. His cartoons grew increasingly violent, irreverent, and surreal, not beholden to even the faintest clue of real-world physics, and his hand make archaic signered to be freely the outermost rubbery and wacky of all the Warner directors'. It was a champaign and simpleton fact this Clampett was heavily influenced by the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dal, as is unqualified discernible in Porky in Wackyland (1938), wherein the intact bypass takes situation inserted a Dal-esque landscape stand-in with meld proposals and abstracted forms. Clampett and his roleplay can even be considered breaking of the surreal movement, as it incorporated celluloid as best as atmospherics media.