Talk:Bill Davis (artist)

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Bill Davis, a.k.a William Davis, a.k.a. William Robert Davis, a.k.a Trowzers Akimbo (born May 1949) is an American animation director/designer, creative director, illustrator, graphic designer, painter and founder of Mother Productions. He married his wife, Betty Tikker Davis, at the age of 18 and is the father of two children. Among other accomplishments, Bill received an Emmy Award for his animated title and segue films on NBC’s, "NBC, The First 50 Years: A Closer Look," created over 200 "More to Come" on-air slides for the "Tonight Show, Starring Johnny Carson" and designed the famous, if not infamous "Gong Show" logo. He has made major contributions in the fields of illustration, graphic design, animation, computer games and fine art. He was lead graphic designer for NBC, an animation director/designer for Kurtz & Friends and as a freelancer, VP of development/creative director for two computer game companies: Sierra On-Line and Rocket Science Games and currently occupies the creative director chair at Mother Productions, an organization which creates websites, on-air and internet animation, motion graphics, logos and other graphic design.

The preceding text is from an article I created containing a autobio of myself contributed so I can link it to other articles, already posted on Wikipedia, concerned with companies or projects, in which I made a significant contribution. I welcome any advice concerning anything I need to modify or add to bring it into line with Wikipedia guidelines.

Thanks.

Trowzers 04:55, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

I've added citations to references for 'boards Magazine, Sierra News Magazine and Business Wire.

Trowzers

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Added "Emmy Award" citation. Trowzers 15:58, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

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