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- Billy Greene, an award-winning filmmaker, animator and percussionist was born in New York City and raised in Burlington, Vermont. Billy's artistic activity reflected his child-like innocence, subtle humor and off-handed modesty. He excelled in stop-motion animation, translating his acute observation of movement and character into the telling gestures of the beings he brought to life. He had a genius for getting miraculous effects from the simplest means. Humorous touches and subtle shadings of mood and atmosphere characterized his animating work, which was becoming increasingly influential among his peers. Billy's independently produced short animated film, "Thought Bubble" features a harmonica playing homeless man as its main character and premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festivals in Park City, Utah where attendess praised its poetic qualities. The film then showed regularly in film festivals world-wide, notably at France's Annency International Animation Festival and the New York Film Festival. Billy began his professional career with 181 Productions in New York City, which specialized in children's programming, and he gained further expertise animating commercials for Clayart Trickfilm Studio in Frankfurt, Germany. For several years he worked in Portland, Oregon as a senior animator on _"PJ's, The" (1999)_, Will Vinton Studio's nationally-syndicated animated television series which was the brainchild of Eddie Murphy. He had then returned to the Bay Area to animate for "Phantom Investigators", a Wholesome Products production for Warner Brothers television. In addition to his film-making skills, he was a passionate and dedicated percussionist, among his numerous musical projects was the San Francisco band "Poltroon". Billy had a remarkably sunny and generous personality. Throughout his life he was a loving soul and the light of his parents', and many other people's lives. His perceptiveness, gentleness and unique sense of humor will live forever in his art works and in the hearts of those who were privileged to know him.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
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