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Timothy Albee, Creator of Kaze, Ghost Warrior, and the CGI character animator for the Re-imagined series of Battlestar Galactica.

Timothy Albee, also known as Dreamcatcher, is the sole creator (director, writer, animator, musician and voice actor) of Kaze: Ghost Warrior, which he accomplished in six months on two consumer-grade computers that, combined with software, totaled less than $5,000. He wrote and published a book to detail exactly how he accomplished this, so that others might do the same thing. He runs his own animation studio, Timothy Albee Animation and is also a co-founder of Northern Lights Animation.

His fursona, Dreamcatcher, is an androgynous cheetah/wolf hybrid.

In addition to his Timothy Albee Animation website, his TA_FineArt Yahoo group and other professional sites, Timothy maintains a Yerf account for his furry art.

Timothy Albee was a guest of honor at Eurofurence 10 (2004) and at Anthrocon 2005.

Biography

Timothy was born in Michigan and raised in a very small farming community. He bought his first computer when he was 10 years old (Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer). He started college at a state university and then went to CCS in Detroit, leaving college shortly because of disappointment with the faculty's inability to teach him what he wanted to learn. He apprenticed to a flute-master in Virginia for a while, learning to make bamboo flutes, then traveled the Renaissance Faire circuit where he worked as a bard, juggler, slight-of-hand artist, "martial-arts juggler," swordsman and various and sundry other very odd jobs.

He wound up in California in 1991, working as a professional musician focusing mainly on folk and classical harp. He was hired to do sound-production for a small music label where he was first exposed to the Video Toaster. After a few years in "Cali," he took a sabbatical, returning to Michigan to finish his degree.

He started working for a company to which Disney Interactive was outsourcing its Animated Storybooks, and got back into animation. Then he went back to California to be lead animator on Activision's Apocalypse. He then went on to work on Babylon 5, and then to Walt Disney Feature Animation to work on Dinosaur. After his tenure at WDFA was up, he formed "Exile Films," which was rolled-into "Studio Mythos" when offshore investors took over, leading the studio in a completely contrary direction. Securing the company a gig to fulfill his obligations, he left everything associated with Mythos and drove north.

Timothy is a participant in the furry fandom, and Kaze: Ghost Warrior is shown at many furry conventions. He was also once engaged to 2 the Ranting Gryphon, and is currently in a dedicated, long-term relationship with Jessie T. Wolf.

Quotes

"You succeed, not 'in spite' of the risks you take, but because of them."

"Every day is an opportunity to Live your Truths. Hold onto them, hold them dear to you, (and allow others to do the same with their own,) — they the 'doorway' through which you can make what you Believe in your Heart, what you Experience in 'Reality."

Animation and Movie Projects

Timothy has the following projects in progress:

• Kaze (prequel feature)
• Kaze: Ghost Warrior (series) (Pilot already released)
• Wolfpack (in development)
• Freeborn

Books

Books created by Timothy Albee include:

• Essential LightWave 3D 8 (also by Steve Warner, with Robin Wood)
• LightWave 3D 8 Character Animation
• CGI Filmmaking, The Creation Of Ghost Warrior
• 1001 LightWave Tips and Tricks and LightWave Getting Started Guide

External links

• http://www.ta-animation.com/index.htm
• http://ta-animation.com/TA_FineArt/
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TA_FineArt
• http://yerf.com/uploads/albetimo
• http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_%28RDM%29

Some of this page is derived from Wikipedia. The original article was at Timothy Albee. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WikiFur, the text of Wikipedia is available under CC-BY-SA and the GFDL.