Iwao Takamoto Net Worth is
$1.1 Million

Mini Biography

Iwao Takamoto had recently graduated from Thomas Jefferson SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in LA when japan bombed Pearl Harbor; Iwao, his parents and siblings had been interned as foe aliens in the Manzanar internment camp where he discovered the rudiments of sketching and computer animation from two fellow internees who experienced worked as artwork directors at Hollywood film studios. When provided an opportunity to keep the camp to choose fruits in Idaho, Iwao put on Walt Disney for employment as an animator; he spent the weekend before his visit sketching and sketching almost anything he noticed. He got the work as an associate illustrator operating as an apprentice beneath the tutelage of Disney’s “Nine Aged Men”. especially Bob Carlson and Milt Kahl. While at Disney, Takamoto done both short movies and features; in 1961 he remaining Disney for Hanna-Barbera where he’d have a submit developing many well-known and beloved toon characters such as for example Scooby Doo, Astro, George Jetson’s doggie, and Penelope Pitstop. He retired as Vice Chief executive of Unique Prohjects for Warner Brothers.

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