18 MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY august 1-7, 2024 www.montereycountynow.com A love of animation and animals took Julie Harvey from painting lampshades to Scooby-Doo to Doris Day. By Pam Marino An Animated Life Julie Harvey in the studio of her Carmel Valley home, with one of her detailed and whimsical paintings of animals. She studied fine art in England and Canada, while all the while working toward becoming an animator. After her animation career, she and her husband Maurice Harvey, also an artist, moved to Carmel Valley to focus on fine art again. Sitting in a darkened movie theater with her mother in England during World War II, a young girl named Julie was watching the Walt Disney Productions film Bambi for the first time. She was mesmerized by the animation but horrified by the unseen hunters who brought death and destruction to Bambi’s forest. On the walk home she peppered her mother with questions, mostly asking why anyone would want to kill animals. The movie would be an important touch point for Julia Harnett Harvey, known as “Julie,” who was shaped by two passions: animation and animals. Now 90 years old, the Carmel Valley resident delights at the chance to reflect on her life that includes escaping Nazi bombers, starting her art career painting lampshades and mannequins, as well as achieving her dream of becoming an animator and bringing to life one of the most famous fictional dogs of all time, Scooby-Doo. Life had so much in store for young Julie besides becoming an animator in what was once a male-only profession. Her love of animals and a move from Daniel Dreifuss
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