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Ubbe Ert Iwerks (March 24, 1901 – July 7, 1971), known as Ub Iwerks ( / ˈʌb ˈaɪwɜːrks / UB EYE-wurks ), was an American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, and special effects technician, known for his work with Walt Disney Animation Studios in general, and for having worked on the development of the design of the ...
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Leslie Iwerks ( / ˈaɪwɜːrks /) is an American producer,...
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Donald Warren Iwerks (/ ˈ aɪ w ɜːr k s /; born 1929) is an...
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Mar 24, 2017 · Ub Iwerks was a man of many talents. He was a prolific animator and a brilliant technical mind. He was Walt’s Swiss Army knife, a man who was to Walt whatever he needed him to be. He was as necessary to the beginning of Walt’s career as he was to the end. He left The Walt Disney Studios at a critical juncture to pursue his own career, but ...
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- Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney became friends and business partners in 1919. Iwerks met and befriended Walt Disney at 18 at the Pesman-Rubin Commercial Art Studio in Kansas City, Missouri.
- The pair created several animated characters before Mickey Mouse. One of Iwerks and Disney’s earliest characters were Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a character that the business partners would later lose rights to.
- Iwerks went off on his own for a decade before returning to Disney Studios. Iwerks wanted more creative and experimental freedom and went off on his own in 1930, becoming an independent producer.
- Iwerks made significant advancements in animation and special effects. While on his own, Iwerks opened his own studio where he developed the multiplane camera, which created a three-dimensional effect on screen.
ComiColor Cartoons. ComiColor Cartoons are a series of twenty-five animated short subjects produced by Ub Iwerks from 1933 to 1936. The series was the last produced by Iwerks Studio; after losing distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1934, the Iwerks studio's senior company Celebrity Pictures (run by Pat Powers) had to distribute the films itself.
FilmRelease DateNovember 25, 1933February 17, 1934April 7, 1934May 19, 1934Don Iwerks followed his father, Disney Legend Ub Iwerks, to The Walt Disney Studios in 1950. There, among many leadership roles and accomplishments, Don developed cameras, projectors, and other technical systems, many of which are still used in Disney parks around the world, among them Circle-Vision 360, wide-gauge 3-D film systems, and the projection system for the wildly popular Star Tours ...
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Ub Iwerks. Ubbe Ert Iwerks (March 24, 1901 – July 7, 1971), better known as Ub Iwerks, was an American animator. He is best known for creating Mickey Mouse, together with Walt Disney . Ub Iwerks was born in 1901 in Kansas City. His father Eert Ubbe was an immigrant from Germany.
