Robert Swarthe

Robert Postal Swarthe ( born September 6, 1942 in Los Angeles ) is an American animator and visual effects supervisor.

Life

Swarthe visited the Animation Workshop, University of California, Los Angeles (both 1964) arose where first short animated films like Do not Panic and Minor Discrepancies. He also ended the short animated film Uncle Walt, who was kept a long time for a Disney movie. Swarthe began after the end of his studies to work in the Haboush Company as an animator. A Space Oddity: 's short animated film K -9000 was born. He also founded his own production studio Robert Swarthe Productions, with which he produced in 1975 Kick Me. For the film, the Swarthe as well as other of his films hand- animated directly on the frames of the film strip, in 1976 he received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film.

Swarthe went to Graphics movie where he increasingly devoted himself to the work of visual effects. Here he met Douglas Trumbull know, the Visual Effects and animation in the film hired him as director of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Swarthe was also responsible for the visual effects in Star Trek: The Motion responsible and received in 1980 his second Oscar nomination, this time in the category Best Visual Effects. Further works were Swarthes One from the Heart (1982) and The Outsiders (1983 ), both by Francis Ford Coppola. Swarthe lives in New York City.

Filmography (selection)

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