Craig Clark

Craig Clark (born 1960 in Santa Monica, California) is an American animator, an art rock, darkwave musician (Chorus of Souls on Fluxus Records), a comic book artist ( and Astrothrill), and an album cover artist (The Nymphs on Geffen Records).

Biography[]

Clark began his career as a child actor at the age of 8, when he starred in an educational film called "Forgive and Forget" directed by voice actor Shep Menken in 1968. Switching to animation at age 14, he was discovered by animators Corny Cole (Looney Tunes) and Duane Crowther (Yellow Submarine), and was mentored by longtime Disney animator Amby Paliwoda. Clark was one of the original animation and layout artists on the first three seasons of The Simpsons, and has gone on to animate on various other animated projects such as several Peanuts TV specials for Bill Melendez productions, and many special effects feature films, such as Forrest Gump, The Mask, Godzilla, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Big Trouble in Little China, Cool World, and Poltergeist II: The Other Side.

Clark has produced and directed The Kustomonsters animated show for the web and TV through Cheeky Entertainment, and has aired on AMGTV in U.S. syndication and also streaming TV service OSI74. Clark also released a Kustomonsters feature film via Vimeo ON Demand in 2015. A second Kustomonsters feature, Kustomonsters 2, was released on OSI74 on Roku in 2020.

Filmography[]

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Year	Work	Role	Notes
1983	Automan	special effects animator	TV Series
1984	The_Philadelphia_Experiment_(film)	special effects animator	Theatrical Movie
1985	Misfits of Science Starchaser:_The_Legend_of_Orin	special effects director computer graphics planner	TV Series Theatrical Movie
1986	Poltergeist II: The Other Side Big Trouble in Little China	special effects assistant special effects animator	Theatrical Movie Theatrical Movie
1987	A_Nightmare_on_Elm_Street_3:_Dream_Warriors	special effects animator	Theatrical Movie
1988	This Is America, Charlie Brown	animator	TV Series
1989	Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure Cathy's_Valentine	special effects animator animator	Theatrical Movie TV Short
1990	The Simpsons	animator & character layout	TV Series
1991	Little_Dracula_(TV_series) An American Tail: Fievel Goes West	storyboard artist special effects animator	TV Series Theatrical Movie
1992	The Rugrats Cool World	storyboard revisions effects animator	TV Series Theatrical Movie
1993	Demolition_Man_(film) Addams Family Values	special effects animator special effects animator	Theatrical Movie Theatrical Movie
1994	Forrest Gump The Mask	Digital animator Digital roto & paint	Theatrical Movie Theatrical Movie
1995	Mortal Kombat	Digital animator	Theatrical Movie
1996	Goosebumps:_Escape_from_Horrorland	Digital artist	Video Game
1997	Nemesister	Comic artist	Comic Book
1998	Godzilla	Technical director	Theatrical Movie
1999-2000	Mission_Hill_(TV_series)	Prop design supervisor	TV Series
2001	The Oblongs	Prop design supervisor	TV Series
2002	Lil'_Pimp	storyboard artist	Theatrical Movie
2003	I_Want_a_Dog_for_Christmas,_Charlie_Brown	assistant animator	TV Short
2004	Hi_Hi_Puffy_AmiYumi	Digital Artist	TV Series
2005	Astrothrill	Director	Video Short
2006	The_Adventures_of_Chico_and_Guapo	Layout artist	TV Series
2007	Slacker_Cats	animator	TV Series
2008	Spaceballs:_The_Animated_Series	animator	TV Series
2009	Dixie Dynamite	animator	Theatrical Movie
2010	Bunraku_(film) The_Kustomonsters	visual effects Director / Creator	Theatrical Movie TV Series
2011	Woodstock Manor	Director	TV Short
2012	Christmas in the Trenches	Director	TV Short
2013	Lucky Penny	Director	TV Short
2014	Rainbow_Brite_(2014_TV_series) Cacophony Timbuktu	Art Director / Development Director Director	TV Series TV Short TV Short
2015	The Kustomonsters Movie	Writer/Director	TV Movie
2016	The_Kustomonsters	Director/ Creator	TV Series
2017	Nemesister: Rio Underground	Director	TV Short
2018-2019	The_Kustomonsters	Director/ Creator	TV Series
2020	Kustomonsters 2	Writer/Director	TV Movie
2021	Nemesister: Nem A Go Go Kustomonsters 3	Director Director	TV Short TV Movie

Published works[]

Nemesister (1997) (Cheeky Press)
Astrothrill (1999) (comicbook/CD) (Fluxus Records)

ISBN 1-929197-00-4 and ISBN 978-1-929197-00-2

External links[]

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