Bill Davis (artist)

For the Irish artist, see William Davis (artist).
For other people with the same name, see William Davis (disambiguation).

Bill Davis
Davis in 2007
BornMay 1949 (age 76)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationsArtist, creative director
Known for
SpouseBetty Tikker Davis

William Robert Davis (born May 1949) is an Emmy Award-winning American illustrator, animation director, graphic designer, and painter. Davis received his Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Title Sequences for his work on NBC's The First 50 Years: A Closer Look in 1978. As creative director at Sierra On-Line from 1989 to 1996, he introduced Hollywood production techniques including storyboarding, hand-drawn animations, and advanced animation methods to enhance the coherence and artistic quality of PC games. He established the role of art director and initiated outsourcing animation work to international studios.

Davis later served as creative director at Rocket Science Games and founded Mother Productions, a graphic design firm which creates animation, motion graphics, logos and other graphic designs for on-air and online purposes. Since the 2000s, he has maintained an active fine art practice under the artistic persona Trowzers Akimbo, creating landscape paintings primarily focused on Yosemite National Park and the surrounding Sierra Nevada region.

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