MENTOR HUEBNER & HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRE, 2002

Mentor Huebner, was an artist in two fields of artistic endeavor - Fine Arts & Films. In Fine Arts -- he is known as a Post Impressionist Painter and he accomplished around 2000 landscapes, seascapes and portraits. In Films his credits list around 250 Feature Films and screen credits or contract credits range from Primary Production Illustrator, Conceptual Designer, Conceptual Story Board Artist, Choreographer of Complicated Sequences, Production Designer, Art Director, and in secret -- Ghost Director and/or Ghost Designer.

Some of his films are: Blade Runner, Ben Hur, Flash Gordon, Forbidden Planet, The Planet of the Apes, The Longest Day, Entity, North By Northwest, Meteor, Money Talks, War of the Roses, The Trials of Nuremberg, Fiddler on the Roof, Daylight, Addams Family, Wizards & Warriors, Outrageous Fortunes, The Thing, Total Recall, The Time Machine and End of Days.

He also helped to design 10 Theme Parks. (If you can name ten then those are the ones.) Warner's Theme Park in Brisbane, Auastralia, was based on his conceptual drawings that he accomplished for one year Prior to the work beginning.

It is estimated that for Films he did around 40,000 charcoal drawings, for the Longest Day he desinged around 4000 drawings to create the Normandy Invasion for Zanuck. Many of Mentor's production drawings are of such high quality that not only are they technically correct, saving the Studios many several hundreds of thousands of dollars because of his expertise in calling very precise and accurate shots, but they are also suitable for showing in museums and many have been through the Washington, DC Smithsonian Museum of Art and the New York Museum of Modern Art.

Although Mentor Huebner is considered an Icon throughout the art world and a genius, and is called "King of the Illustrators" by his peers, and often worked on two film productions at the same time, and sometimes was contracted in for one job (one film) and then was asked to work as the Ghost Director -- still much as he would have wanted to -- he was unable to function on the production: HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRE, 2002. as listed, as Mentor Huebner, sadly died March 19, 2001, at dawn.

~ Louise Huebner