Former Filmation Layout artist and character designer Carol Lundberg died on Feb. 11 at the age of 72. She worked at Filmation from 1969 until the early ’80s, and later lent her talents to shows produced at such renowned toon houses as Marvel Prods., Hanna-Barbera Studios and Hyperion Pictures.
At Filmation, Lundberg did layout for 1973’s Star Trek, 1975’s The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, 1977’s The New Adventures of Batman and The Young Sentinels, 1979’s The New Adventures Of Flash Gordon, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) among other animated series and specials. Her credits as a character designer for the studio include 1981’s SHAZAM! and Blackstar, as well as 1985’s She-Ra, Princess of Power.
Lundberg served as a model designer on Marvel’s 1983 series G.I. Joe and went on to design characters for the 1987 feature-length effort G.I. Joe: The Movie. In the ’90s, she worked in layout and background design for Hanna-Barbera on The Pirates of Dark Water (1991) and Once Upon a Forest (1993). Other credits include storyboard director for the 1994 Ruby-Spears Prods. series Mega Man.
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