Hans Peter Bacher

Biography

"ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HANS PETER BACHER EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS ‘Folkwangschool' University of Essen, Germany, MFA-degree in Graphic Design PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1975-1990 Asst. Professor for Animation and Comic-strip-design at the university of Essen 1975-1994 own studio ‘madTParty’ in Duesseldorf illustration work for European advertising. animation film producer for German TV. CG-design assignments for Richard Williams Animation London. spec.effx/matte painting work for live action film. co-creation of the comic strip series ‘Alfred J. Kwak’. styling of a 52 episode - ‘Kwak’ TV-series. 1987-1991 Production Design for Disney’s ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’, ‘Aladdin’ and ‘The Lion King’. 1990 German Golden Camera Award for the development of the cartoon character Alfred J. Kwak. 1991-1994 Production design and art direction at Spielberg’s London Amblimation Studio for ‘Balto’ and ‘Cats’. 1994 Move and employment at Disney Feature Animation, Los Angeles. Stylistic designs for ‘Hercules’, ‘Fantasia 2000’, ‘Tin Soldier’, ‘Beethoven’s fifth symphony', and ‘Dinosaur’. 1995 Production design for ‘Mulan’ 1998 Annie Award for the ‘Mulan’ production design 1998-2003 Design development for various Disney CG- and traditional animation projects, ‘Lilo and Stitch’, ‘Little Match-Girl’, ‘Brother Bear’, 'Wild Life’, ‘I Am’, ‘My Peoples’, ‘Snow Queen’, ‘Fraidy Cat’, ‘Beauty and the Beast Live Action’ ( most of them shelved ) 1998 Logo design for the Lion King Broadway show 2003 Move to the Philippines Independent film designer and producer. book author and teacher at universities and studios in the Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Austria and China since Jan. 2011 Assoc.Professor at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore teaching Production Design and character development for Animation, illustration and comic-strip-design Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Teaching Experience 15 years German university as Asst.Professor, Lectures at Amblin Animation and Disney-studios, the American Film Institute since 2003, Lectures at universities and studios all over Asia, Beijing – Beihang University, Chang Chung – Jilin University, Animation School, Shanghai – China Animation Association, Taipei – Technical University and Sofa Animation Studio Tainan – University of Arts, Design School Manila – La Salle University, St. Benilde Design School Naga – Atheneo de Naga, Design School Singapore – Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and Media Tokyo – Gonzo Animation Studio and Polygon Animation Studio Singapore – Tisch Asia School of the Arts "

Research Interest

"BOOK PUBLISHING Designed Brushes For Photoshop, Born Digital Publ., Tokyo, 2006 Dream Worlds ( Japanese/English/Mandarin ), Born Digital Publ., Tokyo, 2007 and Focal Press Oxford, 2008. planned release for end 2013 - Vision, designing for film planned release for 2014 - Animation lost treasures research NPR non photorealistic rendering FILM analysis"