Michael Humphries

Associate Professor
Illustration / Entertainment Design
www.michaelhumphries.net

Biography

Disney veteran Michael Humphries has been a background artist, visual development artist and art director for Disney Feature Animation and Disney Television since 1977, and continues to do work for Disney Fine Art, Collectors Editions in addition to teaching full-time at ArtCenter since 2007.

Film Credits include: Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Great Mouse Detective, The Rescuers Down Under, The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Home on the Range, Fantasia 2000, Brother Bear, The Princess and the Frog, Kung Foo Panda (short), Disney shorts, "One by One" (art director) and Academy Award-nominated short film "The Little Match Girl" (art director), as well as Production Designer for Sony Pictures first feature-length animated movie "Open Season" (Annie Award nomination as Production Designer).

Lifetime member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. For screen credits for film and television visit iMDB. Michael's book "Visual Storytelling with Color and Light" is due to be released in 2020.

Classes

ILL-207-02: Sketching for Illustration
ILL-333-01: Style
ILL-207-05: Sketching for Illustration
ILL-207-07: Sketching for Illustration
ILL-391-01: Hist Env for Matte Painting
ILL-018-01: Student Skills Workshop

Clients

Mattel
Milton Bradley Co.
Sagebrush Fine Art Publishing
Hasbro Toys
Fisher-Price Toys
Walt Disney Imagineering
Walt Disney Publishing
Warner Brothers Animation
American Greetings
Walt Disney Feature Animation
Walt Disney TV
Sagebrush Licensing
Mead Publishing
Walt Disney Special Projects
Disney Fine Art Collectors Edition
Threshold Animation / Theme Park illustration

Publications

Visual Storytelling with Color and Light / CRC Publishing / release date: Nov 21, 2016

Memberships

Society of Illustrators LA/ 1988 - present
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences/ lifetime member
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences/ lifetime member/ Animation Peer Group Exectutive Board for 4 years

Awards

Induction into the Hall of Fame (2000) Long Beach City College
Annie Award Nomination/ Production Designer/ OPEN SEASON /Sony Pictures
CLEO advertising award/Society of Illustrators/ La Paz La Party Margarita Mix Ad campaign
Arts for the Park top 100/ 1994

Exhibitions

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