Dick Moore
The illustrator of Funky Features Zodiac Astrology Poster - Gemini and the 13th poster, The Zodiac.
His career path isn’t one that you would necessarily expect an artist to follow, as he joined the US Navy, in 1950, after attending the Chicago Academy of Arts. Once he was discharged from the military he was free to pursue his passion working in various studios across the United States for a number of years before finally settling in California. The psychedelic Gemini is a wonderful example of the time.
He moved to Muir Beach, Marin County, in 1967 where he continued to work on projects. In 1969 he moved to Colorado, spent a year there, and then came back to California and the Russian River area in 1970. In 1974 he moved to Hawaii and spent 7 years in Kona on the Big Island doing watercolor painting (as Richard Moore) and some small commercial projects.
He returned to the Bay Area in 1982 and continued to free-lance until becoming employed at Colossal Pictures doing animation background painting and moving to computer painting during a 6‑year stay there.
Then he had an opportunity for George Lucas’s Industrial Light and Magic, painting in the computer for a 7‑year period, lasting until 2004 when he semi-retired and still continues to paint and dabble in a few art projects.