European animators mourn passing of producer-director Thilo Rothkirch.
The European animation community is mourning the passing of producer-director Thilo Graf Rothkirch at the age of 65 after a serious illness.
After studying Graphics Design in Kassel, Rothkirch worked as a graphics designer, storyboard artist, background artist, cartoonist, author and director in London and Bonn before setting up his own animation studio Rothkirch Cartoon Film in 1976.
With his wife Maya, he began working on an international level from an early stage and, thanks to the Media Programme and Cartoon, was instrumental in setting up one of the first animation studio groupings E-Toons with the UK’s Honeycomb Animation Studios and France’s Duboi.
Projects like the Feodor TV series and the feature film Tobias Totz and His Lion were made in collaboration with studios in Belgium, the UK and Germany.
A fruitful collaboration with the German outpost of Warner Bros began with the theatrical distribution of Tobias Totz and...
The European animation community is mourning the passing of producer-director Thilo Graf Rothkirch at the age of 65 after a serious illness.
After studying Graphics Design in Kassel, Rothkirch worked as a graphics designer, storyboard artist, background artist, cartoonist, author and director in London and Bonn before setting up his own animation studio Rothkirch Cartoon Film in 1976.
With his wife Maya, he began working on an international level from an early stage and, thanks to the Media Programme and Cartoon, was instrumental in setting up one of the first animation studio groupings E-Toons with the UK’s Honeycomb Animation Studios and France’s Duboi.
Projects like the Feodor TV series and the feature film Tobias Totz and His Lion were made in collaboration with studios in Belgium, the UK and Germany.
A fruitful collaboration with the German outpost of Warner Bros began with the theatrical distribution of Tobias Totz and...
- 6/11/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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