Animation Guild | We are 839 Digital Magazine
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SHAWNEE HOLT (6/10/2017) Clean-up, color stylist at Frederator, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros., and DreamWorks TV. She was 49. RICHARD T. KHIM (2/21/2017) He was a background artist at Hanna-Barbera. SOO AN KIM (1/20/2017) Animator at MTV, Marvel, Film Roman, and Starz. He was 62. MATT KUMMER (7/5/2017) Matt worked as an Animator at Disney on Wreck it Ralph, Frozen and Get a Horse. Previously, he was at Reel FX and graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design. GINNI MACK (8/23/2017) Ink & paint artist and color lab technician at Walt Disney. Ginni and her distinct blonde haircut was the original inspiration for the design of Tinker Bell. Before her final retirement in 1989, she worked with the engineers developing the CAPS digital paint system. She was 90. ROSE MARIE (MAZETTA) (12/28/2017) Child star and TV actress of the classic sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show, Rose Marie's animation credits include Garfield, The Blues Brothers Animated Series, Real Ghostbusters, Freakazoid, and Hey Arnold. She was 94. TERRI MARTIN (5/11/2017) Animator at Filmation, Walt Disney, and DreamWorks on films, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid and The Prince of Egypt. BEN METCALF (9/2/2017) Layout artist at Rich Animation, Warner Feature Animation, and Bardel Entertainment. JACK MENDELSOHN (1/25/2017) Writer-artist who worked on Dennis the Menace, Yellow Submarine, and TMNT. In 2004, the WGAW Animation Caucus gave him a lifetime achievement award. He was 91. GRANT MUNRO (12/4/2017) Award winning animation filmmaker for the National Film Board of Canada, he co-starred in Norman McClaren's classic, Neighbors. He was 94. JANUARY NORDMAN (12/10/2017) Animator and compositor at ILM, Available Light, Disney, The Secret Lab, Hyperion, and DreamWorks. She was 64. HEATHER NORTH (12/17/2017) Best known as the voice of Daphne in the series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? she also appeared in TV shows like My Three Sons, Adam 12 and The Monkeys. She was 71. TERRY L. NOSS (3/14/2017) VP of Production at Rich Animation. KAREN PAAT (1/28/2017) Ink & Paint, Check, Supervisor at Disney, Filmation, and Fred Calvert. NORLY PAAT (6/10/2017) Assistant animator and model designer at Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, Bakshi, and Disney. JUNE WALKER PATTERSON (2/3/17) A cel painter on such classics as Bambi and Pinocchio, it was June's moxie that landed her first job: she just walked in and asked for it. She was 98. MARK PERONTO (11/26/2016) Effects animator at Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, Marvel, and Film Roman. JOE ROMAN (1/6/2017) Animator at Richard Williams Hollywood, Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros., Turner, and Filmation. PETER SALLIS (6/2/2017) Best known as the voice of Wallace in Aardman's Wallace and Gromit series. He was 96. CARMEN SANDERSON (10/6/2017) Carmen began at Walt Disney Feature in 1952 in Ink & Paint and Xerox, and worked steadily until her retirement in 2004. She was 90. GARY SHAFER (12/14/2017) Animation Checker at Disney, Aurora Bluth, and Kroyer Films. DEAN STANLEY (4/11/2017) Tech Director and Color Correction at Walt Disney, Kroyer Films, Film Roman, WBFA, Hyperion, and Filmation. LEN WEIN (9/10/2017) The other half with Bernie Wrightson in the creation of Swamp Thing, Len also created Wolverine. His animation credits include Kong: The Animated Series, Hypernauts, Wild Card, Pocket Dragon Adventures, ReBoot and War Planets: Shadow Raiders, and series featuring the X-Men, Batman, Spider-Man, Street Fighter and Godzilla. He was 69. MERLE WELTON (4/11/2017) Ink & Paint, Checker and Scene Planning at Walt Disney, Chuck Jones, Film Roman, Warner Bros, and Bakshi. She was 90. ADAM WEST (6/19/2017) People who knew Adam as the star of the 1966 cult classic TV series Batman would be surprised to know he did animation voices as well—The Caped Crusader Returns, as well as Futurama, Family Guy, Robot Chicken and Spongebob Squarepants. LANCE WILLIAMS (8/20/2017) Starting at NYIT, he developed mip-mapping for textures, graphics hardware. He developed digital paint systems for Walt Disney Studios, DreamWorks and Apple. In 2001, he was awarded a special Oscar for his achievements. He was 67. ROY WILSON (2/28/2017) Storyboard artist at Warner Bros., Hanna- Barbera and Walt Disney. BERNIE WRIGHTSON (3/18/2017) The legendary cartoonist/ illustrator of Swamp Thing and Frankenstein created a number of animated projects like a sequence of Heavy Metal, and projects for Gang of Seven. He was 68. T R I B U T E WINTER 2018 41 Special thanks to Tom Sito