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David Krentz is an American
paleoart
Paleoart (also spelled palaeoart, paleo-art, or paleo art) is any original artistic work that attempts to depict prehistoric life according to scientific evidence. Works of paleoart may be representations of fossil remains or imagined depiction ...
ist, character designer, animator, storyboard artist, writer and director specializing in
dinosaurs.
As an animator for
Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures is an American film production company and subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company. The studio is the flagship producer of live-action feature films within the Walt Disney Studios unit ...
, Krentz has worked on
Disney animated feature
This list of theatrical animated feature films consists of animated films produced or released by The Walt Disney Studios, the film division of The Walt Disney Company.This list does not include films or specials streamed on Disney+ as Disne ...
titles such as ''
Fantasia 2000
''Fantasia 2000'' is a 1999 American animated musical anthology film
An anthology film (also known as an omnibus film, package film, or portmanteau film) is a single film consisting of several shorter films, each complete in itself and distin ...
'', ''
Disney's Dinosaur'',
''
Treasure Planet
''Treasure Planet'' is a 2002 American animated science fiction action-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The 43rd Disney animated feature film, it is a science fiction adaptat ...
'', and ''
John Carter'', as well as productions for other studios such as ''
Escape from Planet Earth
''Escape from Planet Earth'' is a 2013 computer animated comedy-adventure science fiction film produced by Rainmaker Entertainment and distributed by The Weinstein Company in the United States and Entertainment One in Canada, directed by Cal Br ...
''.
He has also contributed character designs and
computer-generated models for films such as the 2013
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of ''
Walking with Dinosaurs
''Walking with Dinosaurs'' is a 1999 six-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Tim Haines and produced by the BBC Science Unit the Discovery Channel and BBC Worldwide, in association with TV Asahi, ProSieben and France 3. Envi ...
'', including close to 20
ZBrush models.
In addition to his work on films, Krentz has contributed his character design expertise to television shows such as the
Discovery Channel's four-part
nature documentary
A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures, usually concentrating on video taken in their natural habitat but also often including footage of t ...
''
Dinosaur Revolution
''Dinosaur Revolution'' is a four-part American nature documentary produced by Creative Differences. It utilizes computer-generated imagery to portray dinosaurs and other animals from the Mesozoic era. The program was originally aired on the Disc ...
'' and its feature film version, ''
Dinotasia'', which was created from unused sequences of the show.
Krentz was also the co-director and art director for both of these productions.
More recently, he has worked as a writer and storyboard artist for the
Adult Swim
Adult Swim (AS; stylized as dult swim'' and often abbreviated as s'') is an American adult-oriented night-time cable television channel that shares channel space with the basic cable network Cartoon Network and is programmed by its in-house ...
animated production ''
Primal''. For his work as a storyboard artist on the episode "Plague of Madness", he has won an
Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation. For the same episode, he was also listed as a recipient of the award for
Outstanding Animated Program.
His
3D modeling of dinosaurs was preceded by his paleoart, in which he has an avocational interest in sculpting of dinosaurs.
References
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Living people
Paleoartists
Year of birth missing (living people)