Robert Swarthe
Robert Postal Swarthe (born September 6, 1942 in Los Angeles ) is an American animator and visual effects supervisor .
Life
Swarthe attended the animation workshop at the University of California, Los Angeles , where the first short animation films such as Don't Panic and Minor Discrepancies (both 1964) were made. He also finished the short animation film Uncle Walt , which was long thought to be a Disney film. Swarthe started working as an animator for the Haboush Company after finishing his studies. This is where the short animation film K-9000: A Space Oddity was made . He also founded his own production studio Robert Swarthe Productions, with which he produced Kick Me in 1975 . For the film, which Swarthe, like other of his films, hand- animated directly on the individual frames of the film strip, he received an Oscar nomination in 1976 in the category of best animated short film .
Swarthe went to Graphics Film, where he increasingly devoted himself to working on visual effects. Here he met Douglas Trumbull , who hired him as head of the visual effects and animation departments for the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind . Swarthe was also responsible for the visual effects in Star Trek: The Film and received his second Oscar nomination for it in 1980, this time in the category of Best Visual Effects . Swarthe's other works were One with a Heart (1982) and The Outsider (1983), both by Francis Ford Coppola . Swarthe lives in New York City .
Filmography (selection)
- 1962: Attack of the Sea Beast
- 1964: Don't Panic
- 1964: Uncle Walt
- 1964: Minor Discrepancies
- 1965: Vamos al Cine
- 1966: The Oil Refinery
- 1966: The Unicycle Race
- 1967: One Eye
- 1968: K-9000: A Space Oddity
- 1969: The Thrilling Adventures of the Chameleon in Color
- 1971: The Boss
- 1972: Radio Rocket Boy
- 1973: The Lone Dragnet
- 1975: Kick Me
- 1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Close Encounters of the Third Child)
- 1979: Ink, Paint Scratch
- 1979: Star Trek: The Movie (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
- 1982: One from the Heart (One From the Heart)
- 1983: The Outsiders (The Outsiders)
Web links
- Robert Swarthe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See californiabirthindex.org
- ↑ See Robert Swarthe on alternativeprojections.com
- ↑ Disney Cartoons That Aren't Disney , mouseplanet.com, Nov. 28, 2007.
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SURNAME | Swarthe, Robert |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Swarthe, Robert Postal (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American animator and visual effects supervisor |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1942 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |