Jozef Szekeres
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Jozef Szekeres is one of two directors for the Black Mermaid Productions creative team which is Australian based. http://www.blackmermaid.com/ Sydney born, Jozef, joined Walt Disney Animation Australia as an animator in 1989. He was a senior animator on several video features: Aladdin: King of Thieves, Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure, Peter Pan II: Return to Neverland, and Jungle Book II. Jozef also sculpted maquettes of the lead Disney characters for the studio. After Disney, Jozef worked as a freelance animator and director for many of the major Australian commercial production companies including Film Graphics. As a comic book artist his work has been published in Australian independent comics including Oblagon, Greener Pastures and Platinum Grit. His American published comic work includes the ElfQuest: WaveDancers six-issue series for Warp Graphics in 1993, the Dart three-issue miniseries for Image Comics in 1996, and Safety-Belt Man and a story in Joe Linsners Dawn: Return of the Goddess (Issue #3) for Sirius Entertainment in 2000. In 1998 Jozef was appointed as a mascot design consultant and the maquette sculptor for the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Jozef was also a conceptual designer on the feature films, Dark City and Cut, and has worked occasionally over the past 15 years with MEG (Make-up Effects Group) on their commercials and feature films as a conceptualist and sculptor. As part of his exploration of sculpture, Jozef has recently launched his first 16" fashion doll Elizabet Bizelle http://www.jozefszekeresdolls.com/. From 2001-06 Jozef worked at Aristocrat Technologies as a senior illustrator (both traditional and digital) creating gaming art. His most recent artworks have appeared in Blue magazine (#66, the last isue released before Blue magazine went on hiatus), as well as the 2007 Sydney Mardi Gras event poster. Jozef's artwork can be viewed on the BMP Art Gallery page and on the DeviantArt website http://elf-fin.deviantart.com/. Co-Founder of the Comics and Graphic Novel Portfolio for the ASA.
Also now the ASA (Australian Society of Authors) Comics and Graphic Novel Portfolio Holder.
