William Stout (He/Him)
Concept Artist
Traditional Artist
Storyboard Artist
Table/Booth: 1007
At 17, William Stout received a four-year California State Scholarship to CalArts.
After 120 film ads, Bill worked on 70 feature films and became a production designer. Stout was the very first film artist to receive the “Concept Designer” credit.
His 1981 masterwork, THE DINOSAURS, inspired Jurassic Park. Stout’s works dominated “Dinosaurs Past and Present,” a 14-museum record breaker. At the Smithsonian alone, visitation topped two million.
After Stout’s Houston Museum of Natural Science “Life Before the Dinosaurs” murals, he painted three Cretaceous murals and oversaw full-sized dinosaur sculptures for Walt Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Then, he painted 12 murals for the San Diego Natural History Museum and two more for the Zoo.
Stout’s 1989 Antarctica trip resulted in the traveling show “Dinosaurs, Penguins and Whales-The Wildlife of Antarctica”.
The National Science Foundation’s 1992-1993 Antarctic Artists and Writers Program grant saw Stout dive under the ice, climb an active volcano, and produce over 100 Antarctic wildlife studies. The Muckenthaler Cultural Center hosted Stout’s 13th one-man show, “Dinosaurs, Penguins & Whales: William Stout’s Antarctica,” in 1999.
