Charles Zembillas

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Charles Zembillas
Born
Charles Steve Zembillas

Occupations
  • Character designer
  • Art director
  • educator
  • author
  • concept artist

Charles Steve Zembillas [1] is an American character designer, art director, educator, and author. [2] Zembillas designed early concept art for games such as Crash Bandicoot , Spyro the Dragon , and Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy , [3] [4] as well as animated television series such as Wish Kid , Where's Waldo? , James Bond Jr. , and Ghostbusters . [1]

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He currently teaches art in his home state of California.

Career

Charles Zembillas was a character designer for the television series She-Ra: Princess of Power from 1985 to 1987 for a total of ninety-three episodes. He was also a character designer in 1985 for the film The Secret of the Sword , and would go on to be the art director of the television series Ghostbusters for sixty-five episodes in 1986. In 1987 Zembillas was commissioned for Spiral Zone as a character designer for sixty-five episodes. [1]

In 1991, Charles Zembillas was commissioned to work as an animator, art director, and character designer for movies and TV shows such as Wish Kid, Where's Waldo?, Captain N, and James Bond Jr. In 1993, he was the character designer of the TV series Hurricanes as "Skevos Zembillas". In the same year, he also served as the storyboard reviser for the TV series Sonic the Hedgehog.

In 1996, Charles Zembillas worked for Naughty Dog Inc. on a new project known as "Crash Bandicoot", a video game series for the Sony PlayStation. Zembillas would continue to work for Naughty Dog in 1998 with Crash Bandicoot: Warped.

In the year 2000, Zembillas designed early concept art for Naughty Dog in the game Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, as well as Spyro: Year of the Dragon.

Charles Zembillas currently serves as the CEO, Founder, and Instructor at The Animation Academy in California.

Filmography and games

DateTitlePlatformRole
1982 The Secret of NIMH FilmAssistant animator (uncredited)
1985 She-Ra: Princess of Power TV seriesCharacter designer
The Secret of the Sword Film
1986GhostbustersTV series
1987Spiral ZoneTV series
1989The Adventures of Ronald McDonald: McTreasure IslandShortModel director
1991Wish KidTV seriesCharacter designer
Where's Waldo? Additional character designer
Captain N and the New Super Mario WorldCharacter designer
Captain N: The Game Master
James Bond Jr.
1992 Defenders of Dynatron City TV short
1993 Sonic the Hedgehog TV series
HurricanesTV seriesCharacter designer
1995 The New Adventures of Madeline TV seriesCharacter and prop designer
1996 Crash Bandicoot Video gameArt director
1997 A Christmas Carol Video
1997 Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back Video game
1998 Crash Bandicoot: Warped Video game
Spyro the Dragon Character designer
The Snowden, Raggedy Ann and Andy Holiday ShowFilmLayout supervisor
2000 Spyro: Year of the Dragon Video gameCharacter designer
2001 Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
2003 Crash Nitro Kart Video gameArt director

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Zembillas, Charles. "Charles Zembillas – IMDb". IMDb . Retrieved October 29, 2013.
  2. Zembillas, Charles. "Blogger: User Profile: Charles Z" . Retrieved October 29, 2013.
  3. Zembillas, Charles (2008). Controlling Illusion: The Class Demonstrations of Charles Zembillas. Animation Academy. ISBN   978-0981605005 . Retrieved October 29, 2013.
  4. "Interview with Charles Zembillas". Crash Mania. May 17, 2009. Retrieved October 29, 2013.