Rehman Rashad: Animation :5 Artist

JIM LEE

Jim Lee (born August 11, 1964) is a Korean American comic book artist, writer, editor and publisher. He first broke into the industry in 1987 as an artist for Marvel Comics, illustrating titles such as Alpha fights and Punisher war journal , before gaining a great deal of popularity on The Uncanny X-Men. X-Men No. 1, the 1991 spin off series premiere that Lee penciled and co-wrote with Chris Claremont, remains the best-selling comic book of all time, according to The Guinness Book of World Records.

In 1992 Lee and several other artists formed their own publishing company, Image Comics, to publish their creator-owned titles, with Lee publishing his titles through his studio, Wildstorm Productions, such as WildC.A.T.s and Gen¹³. Eschewing the role of publisher in order to return to illustration, Lee sold Wildstorm in 1998 to DC Comics, where he continued to run Wildstorm as a DC imprint until DC ended Wildstorm in 2010, as well as illustrating successful books set in DC's main fictional universe, such as the year-long "Batman: Hush" and "Superman: For Tomorrow" storylines. On February 18, 2010, Jim Lee was announced as the new Co-Publisher of DC Comics with Dan DiDio, both replacing Paul Levitz.

Lee is known to use F lead for his pencil work.While inking his own pencils on Punisher: War Journal, Lee began using a crowquill nib for the first time.

In talking about the artist's work ethic, Lee has said, "Sometimes I wonder if we ever really improve as artists or if the nirvana derived from completing a piece blinds us enough to love what we have created and move on to the next piece. If we could see the work as it is, with years of reflection in the here and now, how many images would end up in the trash rather than on the racks?"

BOB KANE

Bob Kane (born Robert Kahn; October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998 in New York City, New York ) was an American comic book artist and writer, credited along with Bill Fingeras the creator of the DC Comics superhero Batman. He was inducted into the comic-book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1994 and into theWill Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996.Robert Kahn graduated from DeWitt Clinton High Schooland legally changed his name to Bob Kane at age 18. He studied art at Cooper Union before "joining the Max Fleischer Studio as a trainee animator in 1934"

He entered the comics field two years later, in 1936, freelancing original material to editor Jerry Iger's comic book Wow, What A Magazine!, including his first pencil and ink work on the serial Hiram Hick.In early 1939, DC's success with the seminal superhero Superman in Action Comics prompted editors to scramble for more such heroes. In response, Bob Kane conceived "the Bat-Man." Kane said his influences for the character included actor Douglas Fairbanks' movie portrayal of the swashbuckler Zorro,Leonardo da Vinci's diagram of the ornithopter, a flying machine with huge bat-like wings; and the 1930 film The Bat Whispers, based on Mary Rinehart's mystery novel The Circular Staircase.

HARRY LAMPERT

Harry Lampert (November 3, 1916 – November 13, 2004) was an American cartoonist, bridge book author, and bridge teacher.

Born in New York, Lampert began cartooning when he was sixteen years old, and worked for the legendary Max Fleischer, inking and helping produce Betty Boop, Popeye, and Koko the Clown cartoons. While stationed at Drew Field in Tampa, FL, he created Droopy the Drew Field Mosquito which ran in the Drew Field Echoes from 1942-1944. He began drawing comic books and he is best known in that field for being the artistic co-creator of the DC Comics superhero The Flash. Created in collaboration with writer Gardner Fox, the hero first appeared in Flash Comics #1 in 1940, but Lampert left the character after drawing only five stories, gravitating towards his preference for humorous work. He also drew the comic book characters "The King", "Red, White and Blue" and "The Atom". Lampert later went on to draw gag cartoons for Time Magazine, The New York Times, Esquire, and The Saturday Evening Post. He was also an instructor for the New York School of Visual Arts and founded the Lampert Agency, an advertising company which produced award-winning ads for clients such as Olympic Airways, Seagram, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

After his retirement in 1976, Lampert went on to write many instructional books on contract bridge. A Life Master and bridge teacher licensed by the American Contract Bridge League,Lampert spent years giving classes and working the cruise ship circuit teaching bridge to players. In the mid-1990s, Lampert became active in the comic book convention circuit, selling sketches and autographs and speaking about his famous comic book creation.

Lampert died on November 13, 2004 in Boca Raton, Florida of complications from prostate cancer; he was survived by wife Adele Lampert, daughter Karen Akavan and two grandsons.

Ryan j Woodward

Alejandro Pereira is a highly talented freelance artist with more than 7year of experience in film and animated series production. He focused his knowledge by mixing 3D animation and traditional sculpting. Eventually he narrowed down to only sculpting.

Alejandro studies anatomy and traditional sculpting in a self taught way while learning to use the interface of generalist 3D programs. Everything changed when he discovered ZBrush. The possibilities that the program offered were enormous, so it was only a matter of time and naturally he began to sculpt in Zbrush. Alejandro has worked with large number of licensors such as Marvel, Disney-Pixar, DC and universal studios.

Ryan Woodward is an assistant professor of animation in the Department of Visual Arts at Brigham Young University. At BYU, he teaches Storyboarding, Animation, Gesture Drawing, Visual Development, and Business Practices. In addition to teaching at BYU, he has taught at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

Woodward graduated from Newbury Park High School, in Newbury Park, California in 1990. He then enrolled at Ricks College in Rigby, Idaho (now Brigham Young University-Idaho). He graduated with an associate’s degree in 1995. Woodward worked for seven years in the animation and live-action film industry in Los Angeles, and then returned to school at BYU in 2003, where he completed his degree in Illustration. In 2006 he received a MFA from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California.

In 2003, he was awarded an Oscarson Discovery Grant which enabled him to present his comic book series at a convention in San Diego.

Woodward has been a very successful professional in animation art . He was part of the EFX department at Warner Bros Feature Animation from 1995 to 2001. He created the storyboards for Ironman 2, where the Wild Things Are, and the Spiderman movies, among his many projects. He has also created award-winning short films that have made the film festival circuits. (At the end of this article, see his short film that has gone viral on youtube.com with well over 1 million hits.) In his professional career he has used his artistic talents in animation, storyboard creation, and concept design.

A personal project, including the short film below, was released at the beginning of 2011, and included a gallery exhibition of figurative works. The show, called Conte Animated, was shown at BYU in the Harris Fine Arts Center from January 20 to 28, 2011.