Alexander Anderson Jr., who along with Cal frat brother Jay Ward created Rocky & Bullwinkle and Dudley Do-Right among other cartoon characters, passed away last Friday at age 90. A few words of his impact on my family as well as generations of fans.
Alexander Anderson Jr., the creator of ROCKY & BULLWINKLE, has died following a battle with Alzheimer's disease, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
I just heard the news of Bill Littlejohn’s passing. Bill was an amazing person, artist and animator.
Andrew Witkin, an Academy Award winning senior scientist at Pixar Animation Studios died Sunday, Sept. 12 while scuba diving off the coast of Monterey, California.
Legendary animator and co-founder of ASIFA-Hollywood, Bill Littlejohn, passed away.
Billie Mae Richards, who voiced Rudolph in the Rankin-Bass special, has passed away in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, reports CBC.
At this moment I'm using my Ipad to write this blog, my Windows7 workstation at the office to finish and upload it, while I'm checking my mail on my Android phone. We have an internal Wiki, a second wiki for another company I'm partnering in, Shotgun for project management, Tara with a SQL server backend for automated tasks, an Access database for on-set data, expression media databases, a facebook page linked to our Twitter and Youtube accounts, an Exchange server for Outlook, three Dropbox accounts, a Yousendit account, our own ftp server, I'm on linked-in, Xing, vfxconnection, and I'm getting daily Google alerts on a dozen topics . It's exhausting.
But for some reason I still have the feeling I'm not getting the information I actually WANT or NEED.
Kihachiro Kawamoto, famed Japanese puppet animator, has died of pneumonia, reports Anime News Network.
Anime star Satoshi Kon has died of pancreatic cancer, reports AFP.
Sande Scoredos, the exec director of technical training and artist development for Sony Pictures Imageworks since 1996, died on Saturday, Aug. 14.
Veteran animation producer Alex Johns has died, reports VARIETY.
Disney animator Priscillano "Pres" Romanillos died from complications due to leukemia on July 17th at his home in Tujunga, reports the LA TIMES.
Kip King, one of the original Groundling comedians, died of a long illness on July 15th, reports VARIETY.
Peter Fernandez, best known for voicing Speed Racer, died of lung cancer on July 15th in Pomona, NY, reports VARIETY.
Harvey Pekar, the creator of indie comic AMERICAN SPLENDOR, died at the age of 70, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.
Voice actor Ronald Gans has died from complications of pneumonia, reports VARIETY.
Ilene Woods, best known to animation fans as the voice of Cinderella, has died.
VARIETY reports that vfx vet Steven Hodgson has passed away on the set of Starz's CAMELOT on June 16th.
Peter Keefe, VOLTRON producer, has died at the age of 57, according to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.
Cartoon Brew reports that ROBOTECH creator Carl Macek died Saturday of a heart attack.
Eddie Carroll, who took over voicing Disney’s beloved Jiminy Cricket from the late Cliff Edwards in 1973, has died of a brain tumor at the age of 76.
Betty Paraskevas, the creator, writer and exec producer of many animated pre-school series, has died at the age of 81, reports VARIETY.
Robert was the father of one of my eldest daughter's best friends at school and this relationship became the basis of being friends-by-proxy with Robert Culp. When someone with whom you have shared time and experiences passes away, one half of your shared story dies with them.
According to a report on the LA Time website, famed actor Robert Culp died this morning after a fall outside his Hollywood home.
To commemorate what would have been the 50th birthday of legendary Disney and Pixar story guru Joe Ranft this past March 13th, Disney’s John Musker posted a video tribute he created originally for Ranft’s September 17, 2005 memorial celebration.
