Tim Kirk (born October 30, 1947) is both a professional artist and an American fan artist. He worked as a senior designer at Tokyo DisneySea, as an Imagineer for the Walt Disney company.
Kirk's artwork had a childlike quality that found few buyers in the science fiction and fantasy field at the time, so he took a job in 1973 as an illustrator for Hallmark Cards and then Current Inc., drawing cute animals for greeting cards, box covers, and wrapping paper.[1]
Kirk joined Walt Disney Productions in 1980 as an illustrator, designer, and "Imagineer", playing an especially important role in the creation of the theme park DisneySea in Japan.
He co-designed the Typhoon Lagoon water park with his brother, Steve Kirk, and Imagineers Raellen Lescault, Chris Runco, Julie Svendsen, and others.[2] He sketched out the "waterskiing alligator" logo for Disney's Blizzard Beach, which helped convince Disney CEO Michael Eisner to go with a winter sports theme, rather than alternative like a "dinosaur dig" or "Mayan temple".[3] He also designed parts of the Great Movie Ride, Tower of Terror, Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular, and Muppet*Vision 3D.[4]
