Charles Bonifacio

Charles Bonifacio is a Canadian animator who worked on Nelvana productions such as Rock and Rule, Inspector Gadget, Star Wars: Ewoks, the Care Bears television series and the first two Care Bears movies of the 1980s. He was director of animation on The Care Bears Movie[1] and on Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation.[2] In the 1990s, he worked on FernGully: The Last Rainforest and several Disney animated films.

Bonifacio's other animation credits include A Cosmic Christmas, Watership Down (uncredited), The Devil and Daniel Mouse, Romie-0 and Julie-8, Intergalactic Thanksgiving, Easter Fever, the last three Strawberry Shortcake TV specials, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Rock-A-Doodle and Once Upon a Forest. Bonifacio has also worked on Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan, Lilo & Stitch, Return to Never Land, Tarzan II and Brother Bear 2.

In the late 1980s and 1990s, Charles taught classical animation at Sheridan College.[3] Clive A. Smith, one of Nelvana's founders, recruited Bonifacio from Sheridan College among a host of young animators from that institution, one of the few animation schools in the world at the time.[4]

References

  1. ^ Urquhart, Peter (Fall 2003). "You should know something—anything—about this movie. You paid for it". Canadian Journal of Film Studies. 12 (3). Film Studies Association of Canada: 65–80. doi:10.3138/cjfs.12.2.65.
  2. ^ Canby, Vincent (1986-03-21). "Screen: Care Bears in a sequel". The New York Times. p. C8. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
  3. ^ "Ontario Colleges: 25 years: Courses in demand for a reason – From helicopters to Hollywood, specialized courses find a niche and graduates find jobs". The Globe and Mail. 1992-09-11. p. C9.
  4. ^ Glassman, Marc (2001-12-19). "Clive Smith and his amazing dancing bear". Playback. Retrieved 2008-01-28.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.