Louis Scarborough, who worked on The Simpsons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and other series.
Louis "Lou" Scarborough (May 27, 1953 – August 5, 2013) was a storyboard artist for ChalkZone, starting with the second season. Throughout his career in animation, he worked as an animator, character designer and storyboard artist.[1]
Early life[]
He was born as Louis S. Scarborough Jr.[2] on May 27, 1953[3] to African-American parents in North Carolina, though he was raised in New York City, New York.[4] Scarborough had one brother and three sisters.[5] In New York, his father worked as a businessman.[5] When his parents asked what he wanted to do for a living, Scarborough replied "a starving artist."[1]
Career[]
Scarborough was an assistant animator on the 1977 film Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure.[4] From the late 1970s to early 1980s, he worked on Godzilla and The Smurfs.[4] In 1980, Scarborough won second prize at a film festival.[6] He moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada to work for Nelvana, animating Rock & Rule (1984).[4] Scarborough also worked for Ralph Bakshi.[7]
He continued working on feature films throughout the 1980s, for Disney's The Fox and the Hound (1981)[1] and at Filmation on Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (1987) in addition to the television series Bravestarr[4] and Alvin and the Chipmunks.[1]
By the 1990s, Scarborough was a Warner Bros employee, storyboarding on Taz-Mania, doing backgrounds and layouts for Batman: The Animated Series and served as story artist for the 1998 film Quest for Camelot.[4] He also animated the 1994 video game Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds,[8] and worked on the series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Simpsons and Sonic the Hedgehog.[1] The last production Scarborough worked on was Curious George.
In addition to animation, Scarborough worked in comic books, pencilling for Dragon Knights at DC Comics (where a profile of him was written)[9] and inked a comic for Goofy Adventures.[10] He was an instructor for the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art from 1980[11] to 1984.[12]
Episodes storyboarded[]
- The Terrible Two-and-a-halfs
- I'm Back and Bluer Than Ever
- Fireplug Ballet
- The Heist
- All The Way To The Top
- Draw and Let Draw (with Joe Daniello)
- Lost In Chalk
- The Doofi
- Skrawl’s Brain
- Tiny Pirate Problem
- Attack of the Rudosaurus
- Vincent Van NoGo
- Journey to the Center of the Yeti
- Calling Dr. Memory
Personal life and death[]
Scarborough sketched designs of his own characters in his free time, oftentimes female and anthropomorphic.[1] He was often unemployed in his last years, due to CGI becoming more commonplace in animation.[5]
Scarborough had been suffering from multi-organ cancer near the end of his life, and was unaware of it until July 2013.[13] He died on August 5, 2013 in California at the age of 60,[1] having battled colon, lung and pancreatic cancer.[4] A memorial service for him was held on September 27, 2013 at The Animation Guild.[1]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Sito, Tom (August 2013). In memoriam. The Animation Guild. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
- ↑ Scarborough, Louis. Louis Scarborough. LinkedIn. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
- ↑ United States Public Records. Not linked for privacy concerns.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Beck, Jerry (August 6, 2013). Lou Scarborough (1953-2013). Cartoon Research. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Wayne, Taral (August 13, 2013). Lou Scarborough Animator: 1953-2013. Broken Toys. Pages 5 through 6. Volume 20.
- ↑ Filmmakers. Page 97. 1980. Volume 14. Suncraft International.
- ↑ Sito, Tom (October 6, 2006). Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson. Page 230. University Press of Kentucky. International standard book number 9780813171487.
- ↑ Louis Scarborough Credits. Moby Games. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
- ↑ New Talent Showcase. Comics.org. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
- ↑ Goofy Adventures #4. Comics.org. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
- ↑ American Film. Page 6. Volume 6, issues 1 through 10. 1980. American Film Institute.
- ↑ Dover. 1984. American Art Directory. Page 362. Volumes 50 through 51. R.R. Bowker.
- ↑ Wickline, Dan (September 11, 2013). In Memoriam of Louis Scarborough Jr.. Bleeding Cool. Retrieved February 24, 2020.