‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ animator Tuck Tucker passes away at 59
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WASHINGTON: Tuck Tucker, the veteran animator who labored on widespread sequence comparable to ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ and ‘Hey Arnold!’, handed away on December 22. He was 59. According to Deadline, Tucker’s household posted the information of Tucker’s passing on Facebook.
“It is with a heavy and broken heart that the Tucker family announces the death of Tuck Tucker, father, husband, son, brother, and uncle. We know he was loved by all of those whom he met. In lieu of visitations, if you have memories of Tuck you would like to share on his timeline, the family would greatly appreciate reading them,” wrote Bailey Tucker on Facebook.
As reported by Deadline, Tucker was born William Osborne Tucker III on August 20, 1961. He labored on the 1987 movie Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night earlier than boarding on a number of the most iconic titles in animation together with the 1989 Disney characteristic The Little Mermaid.
In the TV area, he labored on Nickelodeon’s ‘Rugrats’ in addition to ‘The Simpsons’. Tucker was a storyboard director for ‘Hey Arnold!’ between 1996 and 1999 and in addition directed the 2002 characteristic primarily based on the favored Nickelodeon sequence. He was finest recognized for his work on ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’. In addition to being the storyboard artist for ‘SpongeBob SquarePants The Movie’ in 2004, he served as supervising storyboard director for 47 episodes of the hit sequence from 2007 to 2014. On high of that, he wrote six episodes.
As per Deadline, in 2011, he gained an Annie Award for Best Music in a Television Production alongside Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton, and Nick Carr. His different credit embrace ‘Family Guy’, ‘Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story’, ‘Drawn Together’, ‘The Fairly OddParents’, amongst others. In 2015, he started educating graphic and animation design at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia.
Most not too long ago, he labored on the upcoming ‘Bob’s Burgers’ characteristic, which is ready to be launched by twentieth Century Studios at the moment on April 9, 2021.
‘Hey Arnold!’ creator Craig Bartlett took to Instagram to honour Tucker. “A great friend, a master draftsman, a tireless practical joker, a brilliant storyteller, the first one I reached out to when I began ‘Hey Arnold!’ because he was the best board guy I had ever met,” wrote Bartlett.
“I’ll always remember him at his drawing board, arms blackened to the elbows with graphite, eraser shavings everywhere, bringing my characters to life. A killer work ethic, passionately into it. I’m so lucky I got to work with him for so many years. He gave and gave. I miss him already, my heart is broken. Rest in power, Tuck Tucker.”
