Mike Battle (artist)
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Mike Battle, (born September 16, 1978, Rochester, New York), an American digital restoration artist and animation color modelist. He is best known for his work on The Simpsons. He currently works and resides in Los Angeles, CA.
Education[]
He attended Rochester Institute of Technology School of Film and Animation, graduating in 2002.
Career[]
In 2003, Battle got his start working in animation as a post-production coordinator on the 8th Season of King of the Hill. Two years later, he was hired as a production coordinator for The Simpsons and The Simpsons Movie. At the start of the nineteenth season, he began working as animation color modelist. That same year, he animated the LEGO couch gag for "Midnight Towboy" (episode# JABF21), in which the family is built out of LEGO bricks, in a LEGO living room. It first aired on October 7, 2007. [1][2]
Conservation/Restoration work[]
In 2008, Battle started collecting vintage postcard images of his Rochester, New York hometown. A year later, he established "FlourCityPost.com," a website featuring his digital restoration work. The website currently showcases 150 restored views of the 1,500+ images that he owns. [3][4]
References[]
- ^ List of The Simpsons couch gags: Season 19
- ^ Mike Battle at IMDb
- ^ Flour City Post - About Us Archived 2010-11-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Mike Battle Illuminates Rochester History with the Flour City Post". Illumhistory.Wordpress.Com.
External links[]
- 1978 births
- Animators from New York (state)
- Living people
- Artists from Rochester, New York
- Rochester Institute of Technology alumni
- The Simpsons stubs
- American animator stubs