Harald Siepermann

Harald Siepermann ( born June 10, 1962 in Hattingen, † February 16, 2013 ) was a German artist of comics and cartoons.

Life

After graduation in Hattingen and studies at the Folkwang -Hochschule, he founded a studio for storyboards, where he drew templates for movies and commercials. He became known primarily by the Alfred Jodocus Kwak comic series (in collaboration with Herman van Veen ). In addition Siepermann has Roger Rabbit, Mulan and The Emperor 's New Groove participated in the United States, among others in the Disney animated films as a character designer. A drawn by him shorcut story that was serialized story in the program guide Hörzu, was aborted prematurely.

Since the 1990s Siepermann was increasingly active as a lecturer in the field of animation at the Hamburg Animation School, the German Film School, the Games Academy, the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz and the Film Academy Baden- Wuerttemberg.

Since 2010 he worked on his first directorial venture, the animated film 7 Dwarfs - The Dwarf 7bte on a book by Bernd Eilert. The computer-animated film produced in Koregie with Boris Aljinovic for the Hamburg production company Zipfelmütze film by Otto Waalkes and Douglas Welbat, which has already produced two seven - dwarfs - live-action movies.