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unusual facts about Background artist



Daniel St. Pierre

While working on Tarzan (1999), he and his team at Disney developed a patented process called Deep Canvas that allowed them to animate 3-D backgrounds before animating the characters, thus enhancing the apparent depth of backgrounds.


see also

Brad W. Foster

Shadowhawk #5 - 11 ("Big Background Artist", 1993, 1994) Image Comics

Rudolf Stussi

Stussi was first hired as a background artist in 1987 by Nelvana where he worked on the award-winning series Little Bear and Rolie Polie Olie.

Steve Krantz

After firing Shamus Culhane from the animator's supervising director job on Rocket Robin Hood, director Ralph Bakshi and background artist Johnnie Vita were brought to Toronto, not knowing that Krantz and producer Al Guest were in the middle of a lawsuit.

Torin's Passage

Lead Animator Jim Murphy went on to work for Pixar and lead background artist Bruce Sharp went on to work for Microsoft.