Terry O'Reilley

Terry O'Reilley was a layout assistent, revisionist and supervisor for the animated adaption of Hilda and worked on the show for seasons 1, 2 and the Mountain King Movie.

For his work on Hilda, he won the Daytime Emmy in 2019 in the category "Outstanding Main Title and Graphic Design for an Animated Program". This award was shared among the whole animation department who worked on the show and the directors.

Career
Terry developed an early passion for art including his own published comic strip while still in high school. He continued to follow his passion throughout his life working as an animator on numerous tv shows and cartoons as; 'The Lion Guard', 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie', 'Atomic Puppet', 'Flash Gordon', 'The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin', 'Franklin', 'Barbar' and 'The Raccoons'. All culminating with an Emmy award for him and his team in 2019 for his work on Hilda.

He started working in the animation industry in 1985 as a opaquer on the tv movie 'The Body Electric '. In later years he worked as a opaquer, layout artist, color designer, character designer, layout assistant and location designer for several Canadian and American studios such as CBC, Nelvana, Amazon and Disney.

In 2017 he began working for Mercury Filmworks and started working as a layout assistant on the first season of Hilda. For season 2 he became a layout revisionist for all 13 episodes.

His last job at Mercury and for Hilda was as Layout Supervisor for the Mountain King movie. He sadly died in April 2021, two months before production on the movie wrapped up on June 23, 2021.

O'Reilly passed away at the Ottawa General Hospital on Wednesday, April 21, 2021, at the age of 54. After battling a brief illness of heart failure, Terry was surrounded by family when he passed away.

Trivia
The movie was made in memory of Terry O'Reilley and his colleague Kevin Kocvar, who was a assistant editor for the series, and passed away a year earlier on April 13, 2020. O'Reilley's name is credited and after the credits a memoriam baring his name (and the name of Kocvar) is seen above a picture of Trolberg.