The Department of Spanish and Portuguese Colloquium Presents An Informal Talk and Conversation with Tim Fielder
Tim Fielder is an illustrator, concept designer, cartoonist, and animator born and raised in Mississippi. He has a lifelong love of Visual Afrofuturism, Pulp entertainment, and action films. He holds other Afrofuturists such as Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, John Jennings, and Stacey Robinson as major influences. He has worked over the years in the storyboarding, film visual development, gaming, comics, and animation industries for clients as varied as Marvel Comics, The Village Voice, Tri-Star Pictures, to Ubisoft Entertainment. He has also worked as an educator for institutions such as New York University, the New York Film Academy and Howard University.
He is known for his graphic novel Matty's Rocket and his TEDx Talk on the subject of Afrofuturism. His projects, Matty's Rocket, High John Conqueror, and the upcoming INFINITUM, are graphic stories from his company Dieselfunk Studios. Most recently, Tim, along with his twin brother Jim, created the art form called Glogging, which is implemented in their Youtube program called THE DIESELFUNK SHOW.
Tim makes his hime with his wife and children in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of Harlem.
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