Apart from being a principal in Duck, Chouinard labored as a designer and director on a whole bunch of tv commercials. He and the Duck Soup workers participated in advert campaigns for world manufacturers together with Levi’s, 7Up, Nestle, Kellogg’s, Verizon, and the U.S. Olympic Committee, to call a number of. Chouinard directed the Levi’s “Roundup” advert linked under. The crew engaged on the advert Xeroxed live-action footage onto cels and animated the clothes being herded as if it had been cattle.
After listening to the information about Chouinard’s passing, long-time Duck Soup worker Carolyn Bates posted a touching tribute on Fb:
Roger was an unbelievable designer/director, later sculptor. Very type and beneficiant. Duck Soup was an animation household I belonged to for greater than 20 years… To me, Duck Soup represented an ideal animation studio of bygone days. It had nice animation expertise, numerous alternatives, so many enjoyable, inventive tasks. This was when animated commercials had memorable characters.
The studio was a big employer of expertise in L.A. for many years, with many artists who handed by means of, together with Corny Cole, Mel Sommers, Toby Bluth, Amby Paliwoda, Bonita Versh, Istvan Banyai, Sam Cornell, and Tom Sito. Chouinard typically contributed designs and layouts, along with directing lots of the spots. Right here’s a small pattern of among the work performed by Chouinard’s studio:
Over his profession, Chouinard was honored with quite a few recognitions together with the Communication Arts Award of Excellence and a number of other Clio Awards.
Along with his animation work, Chouinard labored in a number of completely different types of creative expression from editorial illustration to writing and illustrating youngsters’s books and creating public sculptures. His editorial illustrations had been printed in The New York Occasions, The Los Angeles Occasions, The Washington Put up, the Boston Globe, Enterprise Week, and the Wall Avenue Journal, amongst others.
Chouinard painted as nicely, and his “Robotic” collage work and sculptures have been exhibited at Mori, Fingers on third, and LA Artcore in Los Angeles in addition to the Hakone Artwork Museum, Gallery EcruNoMori, and Atogoyama Artwork Works in Japan. A collection of his work may be seen on his private web site.
For years, Chouinard traveled each summer season to Japan the place he would take part in artwork workshops for youngsters.
Energetic till the very finish of his life, Chouinard was most lately engaged on making assemblages, sculptures, collages, and mixed-media work that usually included discovered objects.
Roger is survived by Mariko Chouinard, his spouse of 37 years, daughter Christine (Max) Kilger (with Deanna Chouinard), daughter Nicole (Martin Hiemer) Chouinard, and son Paul Chouinard.
