Victor Haboush began his career as an art director at Walt
Disney Studios, after studying at the Art Center College of Design
in Pasadena. At Disney, he received screen credit for his work on
such animated classics as “Sleeping Beauty”, “The Lady and The
Tramp” and “101 Dalmatians” as well as the Academy Award winning
short film, “Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom”. Later, as head
art director at UPA, he worked on the animated feature, “Gay
Puree”. Haboush also worked on “The Flintstones” and “The
Jetsons” for Hanna-Barbera Productions and “Mr. Limpet” for Warner
Bros. His formation of Spungbuggy Works with writer John Dunne and
fellow animator, Herb Stott, marked Haboush’s switch from animation
to live action films.
For more than two
decades, Haboush worked as a director/cameraman in his own
commercial production business, the Haboush Company. He won
numerous awards, including the Cannes Gold and Silver Lions, Clios,
and IBAs. Haboush’s commercials often combined both dialogue and
animation with live action. His extensive commercial credits include
Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Hefty Bags and Schlitz Malt Liquor. Although
he retired in the mid 90’s and returned to painting full time,
Haboush returned to animation a few years later to work on the
critically acclaimed feature “Iron Giant”. He received screen credit
as a developmental artist.
Haboush considers himself an emerging
artist who is still studying art. He experiments with different
techniques and mediums, often painting on a “work in progress” for
years before he is satisfied with the final rendition. Painting
subjects are plucked from Haboush’s life in Los Angeles,
periodicals, photographs, anything that catches the painter’s eye
and fancy. Jazz musicians, sea gulls, zaftig nudes and roses all
come alive in oil. A day at the beach is captured in oils and in
watercolors. Each painting is a unique composite of the artist’s
continual learning process and his fascination with the world around
him. Haboush hopes that by using his knowledge, talent and paint he
can transform flat white surfaces into works of wonder, mystery and
universal emotions.
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