Kirk Henderson
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| Role(s): Artist |
| Education: Diablo Valley College (CA), San Francisco State University |
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Kirk Henderson is an Artist who works primarily as an art director and conceptual designer, on motion pictures, games and commercials in many capacities. He is known for creating art, animation, and to provide art direction for ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron.
He studied fine arts at Diablo Valley college, in Pleasent Hill, California (1970) and film at San Francisco State University (1972) and in 1977 he started to work on the animation business as an artist on the animation sequence of The Grateful Dead Movie[1].
In 1980 he began to art direct, moving for the Bay Area after four years in Los Angeles creating art for companies such Chuck Jones Productions, Universal Pictures and Lisberger Studios. There he joined Colossal Pictures art directing a variety of projects including MTV station I.D.s (Station Identification)[2], commercials and animated short films like Cat and Mouse[3] for the feature film Flicks[4].
After that, he joined Lucasfilm Ltd, as production designer for The All New Ewoks[5] animated tv series and in 1987 he founded Kirksworks Studios[6] as an independent art director. Some of the games he was responsible for contributing art direction are ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron, Gex and Orly's Draw-A-Story, developed by ToeJam & Earl Productions Inc and published by Broderbund in 1999 for MS-DOS and Windows.
In 1999 he joined Industrial Light & Magic contributing visual concepts and art direction, again for features and commercials during three years continuing independently art directing for companies such as Electronic Arts, Rhythm & Hues[7], Tippett Studio[8], Carl's Fine Films[9].
In 2003 Hoytyboy Pictures (then Complete Pandemonium) hired him, to provide concept art for the Walt Disney 3D computer-animated comedy film The Wild. He continued to work independently, contributing art direction in two films directed by Jonathan Parker Bartleby[10] and Untitled as well as on three Sega video games Iron Man, Iron Man 2 and Golden Axe: Beast Rider.
Production history
- ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron (Mega Drive; 1993) — Artwork & Visual Design[11]
Gallery
Kirk Henderson Resume
References
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grateful_Dead_Movie
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_identification
- ↑ http://www.kirksworks.net/cat.html
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093033/
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Ewoks
- ↑ http://www.kirksworks.net/index.html
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_and_Hues_Studios
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tippett_Studio
- ↑ http://www.carlsfinefilms.com/
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleby_(2001_film)
- ↑ File:Toejam And Earl Panic Funkotron MD US Manual.pdf, page 26