Biographie
Born in Ontario, Mike S. Fowler grew up in a picturesque village with nature and creativity around him. His mother was a talented artist and his father encourage his skills at every opportunity. Mike started his professional artistic career at the age of thirteen when he visited a local newspaper, with his comic strips under his arm, and asked to meet with the owner of the paper to publish his cartoons, (of which they did the following week - December 10, 1980). Art and photography continued through high school, college and during his work as a top sales agent and store manager. In 1995, Mike decided to step full time into the world of animation.
Mike's animation experience included the titles of layout artist, supervisor, multimedia designer, animator, and storyboard artist. With the release of his first successful book, "Animation Background Layout: From Student to Professional", he added the credit of being a published author to his list of achievements. Mike has developed from concept through to production, several critically acclaimed montage/demonstration films, artists' showcase books, and educational promotional material for studios and colleges/universities in Canada, USA, Hungary, Germany and India.
From 2000 to 2006, Mike worked at New Brunswick Community College and University of New Brunswick as an Animation Instructor and New Media Professor, respectively. During this time, he achieved three awards including: 1) Province of New Brunswick: 2003 Program Excellence Award; 2) NBCC Miramichi: 2003 Program of Excellence; and 3) A.C.C.C.(Association of Canadian Community Colleges): 2002 Best Teaching Practices. In 2006, he returned back to Ontario to once again work in both the animation industry and as a concert photographer.
In 2021 Mike S. Fowler retired from animation. He continues to actively work as a professional concert photographer for many media magazines and radio outlets in Southern Ontario, Canada including work for Corus Ent.'s Q107, 102.1 The Edge, 107.5 Dave Rocks and Y108.
