Who contributed more to awareness of Japanese animation in the U.S., Philip Kaufman or Carl Macek?
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Carl Macek Carl F. Macek (September 21, 1951 – April 17, 2010) was an American screenwriter, script editor, casting director, dialogue and voice director, storyboard artist, director, voice actor and producer on numerous English language adaptations of anime during the 1980s and 1990s. His work is considered by many to have been invaluable in creating mainstream awareness of Japanese animation in the United States.
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Philip Kaufman Philip Kaufman (born October 23, 1936) is an American film director and screenwriter who has directed fifteen films over a
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Bob Zmuda Bob Zmuda (born December 12, 1949) is an American writer, comedian, producer, and director best known for his friendship with cult personality Andy Kaufman.
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Tedd Pierce Edward Stacey "Tedd" Pierce III (August 12, 1906 – February 19, 1972) was an American animator.
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Kan Mukai Kan Mukai (向井寛 , "Mukai Kan" ) a.k.a. Hiroshi Mukai and Patrick Kan (カン・パトリック , Kan Patorikku ) was a Japanese film director, cinematographer, producer and screenwriter, known for his pioneering work in the "pink film" genre. In the realm of "pink" cinema, Japanese critics have estimated that Mukai is "the only serious rival of Kōji Wakamatsu." As a producer, Mukai helped the early careers of many prominent directors, including Hisayasu Satō and Academy-Award winner Yōjirō Takita. In his career, he directed nearly 200 films and produced approximately 500.
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Val Mayerik Val Mayerik (born March 29, 1950) is an American comic-book and commercial artist, best known as co-creator of Marvel Comics' satiric character Howard the Duck.
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Sam Jaimes Sam Jaimes is an American animator from Hanna-Barbera Studios and Mendelson-Melendez Productions. He animated for the "Peanuts" cartoon specials and movies. He directed seven Peanuts specials in the 80's. he was the american animator in history of his life.
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Hans Fischerkoesen Hans Fischerkoesen, also known as Hans Fischerkösen or Hans Fischer, (18 May 1896 – 23 April 1973) was a German commercial animator. Fischerkoesen is considered an animation pioneer, due to the inventions and innovations he applied to animation technology, especially the use of three-dimensional elements in his animations. Later he becomes Germany’s most influential cartoonist, often nicknamed “Germany’s Walt Disney”. He won both first and second prizes at a Dutch-sponsored international competition in 1937, for advertising films (the runners up included George Pal and Alexander Alexeieff ). By 1956 he had won major prizes at commercial film festivals in Rome, Milan (three times), Venice, Monte Carlo and Cannes. Most notable was the participation in the 1st Berlin International Film Festival, where Fischerkoesen's film "Blick ins Paradies" won the Bronze Medal (Advertising Film) award.
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Tom Sito Tom Sito (born May 19, 1956) is a well-known American animator, animation historian and teacher. In 1998 Sito was included by "Animation Magazine" in their list of the One Hundred Most Important People in Animation.
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Jules Engel Jules Engel (March 11, 1909 – September 6, 2003) was an American filmmaker, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set designer, animator, film director, and teacher. He is the founding director of the Experimental Animation Program at the California Institute of the Arts, where he taught until his death, serving as mentor to several generations of animators.
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Milton Knight Milton Knight (born May 12, 1962) is an American cartoonist/animator, comic book artist and writer, painter, and storyboard/layout artist known for his Golden Age (1930s) cartooning style.
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Oskar Fischinger Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger (22 June 1900 – 31 January 1967) was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter, notable for creating abstract musical animation many decades before the appearance of computer graphics and music videos. He created special effects for Fritz Lang's 1929 "Woman in the Moon", one of the first sci-fi rocket movies. He made over 50 short films and painted around 800 canvases, many of which are in museums, galleries, and collections worldwide. He invented the Lumigraph device, that produces color displays with hand movements. Among his film works is "Motion Painting No. 1" (1947), which is now listed on the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress.
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Larry Janiak Larry Janiak (born 15 February 1938) is a Chicago filmmaker, animator and designer. Janiak was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Lane Technical College Prep High School where he collaborated with Wayne Boyer and Ronald Larson to create animated cartoon shorts. These high school films were recognized by the Chicago Tribune, Hollywood and the IIT Institute of Design. Janiak then attended the Institute of Design and learned under the influence of László Moholy-Nagy's principles of the "American Bauhaus". After school, Janiak began work in advertising, where he employed these principles of design, and the experimental practices he learned at I.D. in his industrial filmmaking. Janiak not only made advertising films, he also created documentaries, experimental films, animations, graphic design pieces, and worked as a professor at the Institute of Design from 1968 to 1980. Much of his work was inspired by his spiritual practices with the Vivekananda Vedanta Society in Chicago, which he was a member of beginning in 1965.
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Chuck Jones Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, filmmaker, cartoonist, author, artist, and screenwriter, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" shorts. He wrote, produced, and/or directed many classic animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Pepé Le Pew, Porky Pig, Michigan J. Frog, the Three Bears, and a slew of other Warner characters.
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Philip A. Kaufman Philip A. Kaufman (Phil Kaufman) (1942 – July 17, 1992) was an American engineer, the namesake of the Phil Kaufman Award, a prestigious award in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry.
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Michael Kaufman (author) Michael Kaufman (born March 27, 1951) is a Canadian author, educator, and theorist focused on engaging men and boys to promote gender equality, end violence against women, and end self-destructive ideals of manhood. He co-founded the White Ribbon Campaign in 1991, the largest network of men working to ending violence against women worldwide. Michael Kaufman also co-founded the Men for Women’s Choice campaign with Gordon Cleveland in 1989. He is a senior fellow of Instituto Promundo, an NGO based in Rio de Janeiro and Washington, D.C.
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Alan Muraoka Alan Muraoka (born August 10, 1962) is a Japanese American actor and theatre director who plays Alan, the current owner of Hooper's Store, on the television show "Sesame Street".
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Max Fleischer Max Fleischer ( ; July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was a Polish-American animator, inventor, film director and producer.
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Lance Kramer Lance Kramer is an animation director on "The Simpsons" and "Futurama". He was as an additional sequence director for "The Simpsons Movie". He also worked as an assistant animator on "" and served as a storyboard artist for "Garfield and Friends".
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Yasuo Ōtsuka Yasuo Ōtsuka (大塚康生 , Ōtsuka Yasuo , born July 11, 1931) is a Japanese animator who worked with Toei Animation and Studio Ghibli.
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Eric Goldberg (animator) Eric Goldberg (born May 1, 1955) is an American animator, film director and voice actor. He is known for his work at both Walt Disney Animation Studios and Warner Bros. Animation.
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Phil Roman Philip Roman (born December 21, 1930 in Fresno, California) is an American animator. He is the founder of animation studios Film Roman and Phil Roman Entertainment. Roman is of Mexican American descent.