Dave creek – best known as the main character designer for the popular FOX animated series “Bob’s Burgers” – has died after a parachute jump accident.
Dave died Thursday after sustaining injuries in a skydiving accident last weekend, but it is not clear at this time what his injuries were.
Tributes poured in from his Hollywood collaborators … including ‘Bob’s Burgers’ director Simon Chong.
Today, we tragically lost our main character designer and friend, Dave Creek. A wonderfully brilliant and talented man I can guarantee has designed your favorite character on Bob’s at some point. I will miss you, mate x https://t.co/NOxEq1VOGw
– Simon Chong (@ chongster62) 8 January 2021
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Bernard Derriman, a supervising director of the program, also paid tribute to their longtime colleague and tweeted one of Dave’s sketches and posted photos of one of the tree houses Dave built around bonsai plants. The work is quite remarkable.
Today we lost a great artist and a good friend at Bobs – our main character designer Dave Creek. Here is one of his many designs, Lady Tinsel, and one of his incredible tree houses. pic.twitter.com/5yX4fZ8ZiQ
– Bernard Derriman (@derriman) 8 January 2021
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Dave’s other big passion was skydiving. His Instagram feed contains many videos showing him jumping.
The last video he posted was on December 28 and he captioned it: ‘Steep break at 5000 feet’. He included the hashtags “adrenaline”, “happiness”, “meat rocket” and “fun”.
The CartoonBrew store first reported his death.
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Dave has been credited with 79 episodes of ‘Bob’s Burgers’ since the series’ 2011 launch. Among his other animation credits are ‘Central Park’, ‘Brickleberry’ and the movie ‘Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown’.
He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2005 and was also a deputy professor in teaching character animation and workshops.
Dave was 42.
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