Jules Engel
Jules Engel ( born March 11, 1909 in Budapest, † September 6, 2003 in Simi Valley, California ) was a Hungarian- American painter and animator, who specialized in abstract animation.
Life
Angel came to the world in Budapest and moved at the age of 13 years to Oak Park, Illinois. He attended high school and graduated in 1937 for a short time at UCLA, before working as a landscape artist. Engel worked as animator in the Charles Mintz studio and came in January 1939 to the Disney Studios, where he animated verschiedege dance scenes in the feature film Fantasia ( 1940). Also scenes of the classic Bambi (1942 ) animated angel who was also involved in the coloring of the film. The strike of the Disney animators ended in 1941 Engels time at Disney.
From 1942 to 1944 Angel of Hal Roach Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Corps belonged to and came 1944 to the innovative animation studio United Productions of America. Engel was involved here as a background artist on films such as, among others, Gerald McBoing - Boing and Mr. Magoo - series. In 1959 Angel left UPA and founded with Herbert Klynn and Buddy Getzler the film studio Format Films, which produced, among other things, the animated series The Alvin Show ( 1961-1962 ) and The Lone Ranger ( 1966-1969 ). Engels also own films appeared in film format, including the short animated film Icarus Montgolfier Wright ( 1962) also an Oscar- nominated work. Angel was also active as a painter and exhibited his paintings in 1945 under the mediation of Hazel Guggenheim first time in Frederick Kahn Gallery in Los Angeles.
In 1962, Angel went to Paris, worked on several animated films, but also worked as a stage designer. He turned in France also working on film biographies, which he continued back in the United States. About Anaïs Nin Angels in 1968 came in contact with Herbert Blau, the first director of the California Institute of the Arts. At his suggestion founded Angel 1970 CalArts ' Experimental Animation Program, which he directed until 2001. Among his students were Henry Selick, Tim Burton, Stephen Hillenburg and Glen Keane. In 2001, CalArts angel appointed to Institute Fellow, an honor previously bestowed only two other people were.
Engel died in 2003 after a short illness and was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Stephen Hillenburg devoted angel 2004 his film The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. The Jules Engel Preservation Project, founded in 2003 is committed to the preservation and maintenance of Engels complete works prescribed.