Being in mind of sports due to the Olympics, here are some paintings of Ken’s. Inspired by activities that he did in his younger days (he is still a mean tennis player).

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Is to introduce the world to Ken Mundie. Ken at 80 years old, is still a prolific animator.

As producers of his current film we’re interested in finding people interested in contributing digital painting. because Ken is so experienced there is much to be learned working on his animation. Keep in mind that Ken is still creating animation, with over 50 years of experience. Faster than we can paint it. If interested please contact: kenmundieproject@gmail.com

Here is his basic bio.

Ken’s 60 years of animation experience began at WALT DISNEY FEATURE ANIMATION. Later Ken designed and animated a series of film titles for DEPATIE/FRELEING ENTERPRISES. The TV titles included “The Wild, Wild, West”, “Secret Agent Man”, “Rawhide”, and “Death Valley Days”. For feature films, Ken designed the titles for “The Great Race”, “Do Not Disturb”, and “A Fine Madness”.

“The Door” an animated short film, produced and directed by Ken led to him designing and directing the first Fat Albert special for CAMBELL, SILVER, COSBY entitled “Hey, Hey, Hey it’s Fat Albert”. After Fat Albert, Ken continued to work on the development of an animated version of “Odyssey” while designing and animating several commercials for LEO BURNETT, KELLOGS and MATTEL, HANNAH/BARBERA and production designs for the feature film “Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland”.

KEN MUNDIE and STUART LOWDER started working together in 1990 on the television production of FOX’S “Peter Pan and the Pirates”.

Stuart Lowder has worked as an Art Director and Art Manager since 1983. After meeting Ken during the production of the TV show “Peter Pan and the Pirates” he helped to established the animation department for the entertainment division for BRODERBUND SOFTWARE. There he worked on several CD ROM titles for the “Carmen Sandiego” series. While at INDUSTRIAL, LIGHT AND MAGIC, Stuart managed the animation department during a number of visual effects project including: “Star Wars”, “The Mummy,”“Pirates”, “Son of Mask”, “Lemony Snicket” “Van Helsing”, “Hulk”. Stuart worked as the Animation Production Manager for the Academy Award winning animated feature film “Happy Feet.” Most recently Stuart was an animation producer on “Where The Wild Things Are”.

“The Match” is an animated film about an epic tennis match that represents the battle of brute force against the intellect. It will be animated entirely by Ken Mundie. We are hoping to find people interested in painting the finished animation and/or find funding.

The above film is part of the first act.

I was a child in the late 60’s early 70’s. I was always fascinated by animated commercials, title sequences and saturday morning cartoons. Some of course were not very well done, but they filled my mornings with delight. I loved The Jacksons, The Osmonds. Also Kimba the white lion, and Mighty Mouse, even Underdog and fractured fairy tales. Not a discerning critic I knew what I liked and styled my early drawings on warner bros. designs.

I had no sense of the people working behind the scenes. These Cartoons were real to me. When I thought about it at all my only concern was how someone was able to draw the same image in different poses over and over again. It seemed impossible.

There was a period in the ealry 70’s when they started rerunning early sixty shows, everyday at 6pm. My sister and I got hooked on the Wild, Wild, West show. I’m sure that the animated titles were what first interested me in the show.

Older and with a background in animation, I now know what it took to get this work done. I still love the titles of Wild, Wild West. They are beautiful. Through a friend I met Ken Mundie about a year ago. He is the animator responsible for them. He also did the first pilot of Fat Albert and directed many of the designs. This site is devoted to his current project. A film called the The Match. The work already looks great.

This is a color test of the film.

Another color test.

Fattt Albert

Another achievement of Ken’s is the first pilot of Fat Albert, the animated cartoon series based upon Bill Cosby’s childhood and writing. He was Animation Director and ended up designing many of the characters, and the look. This pilot unfortunately has been lost. If you know of it’s location, please contact this blog!!

Lifting Albert

Wendy Johnson Carmical met Stuart Lowder in the mid 1990’s when they worked together in the animation department at Broderbund. Wendy worked as a project lead on titles for the “Carmen Sandiego” series. She went on to work in a variety of supervisory or animation roles for Purplemoon, Disney Online, Disney Imagineering, Sonamo Collaberative Media, and Learntempo. Most recently Wendy was Project Manager for the Juvenile Group at Beckermayer Book Producers. Wendy has been involved with publishing hundreds of books, toys, online adverts and PC games. She is also an animator and has completed a number of short films for commercial and independent ventures.