The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is honoring Brit animator and storyboard artist Peter Western with its Special Award at this year's BAFTA Children's Awards. Spanning more than 40 years, Western's designs have brought life to animated characters across a raft of TV and film productions including Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Fungus The Bogeyman, Bing, Horrid Henry, American Tail 2: Fievel Goes West, The Village, The Snowman And The Snowdog, Space Jam and Quest F…...
- 11/16/2016
- Deadline TV
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is honoring Brit animator and storyboard artist Peter Western with its Special Award at this year's BAFTA Children's Awards. Spanning more than 40 years, Western's designs have brought life to animated characters across a raft of TV and film productions including Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Fungus The Bogeyman, Bing, Horrid Henry, American Tail 2: Fievel Goes West, The Village, The Snowman And The Snowdog, Space Jam and Quest F…...
- 11/16/2016
- Deadline
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts on Wednesday announced that animator and storyboard artist Peter Western (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Fungus the Bogeyman, Space Jam) will be honored with the Special Award at this year’s British Academy Children’s Awards on Sunday in London.
He will be presented the honor "in recognition of his exceptional contribution to animation," said the organization. "With a career spanning 40 years, Western’s designs have brought to life best-loved animated characters across many celebrated television and film productions."
Said Helen Blakeman, chair of BAFTA Children’s Committee: "Peter has a wealth of experience, gained from...
He will be presented the honor "in recognition of his exceptional contribution to animation," said the organization. "With a career spanning 40 years, Western’s designs have brought to life best-loved animated characters across many celebrated television and film productions."
Said Helen Blakeman, chair of BAFTA Children’s Committee: "Peter has a wealth of experience, gained from...
- 11/16/2016
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Happy imps are pitted against hideous ogres in this knowing DayGlo kids’ film
Not since The Magic Roundabout has an animation had me so urgently wondering: “What exactly are these people on?” A shameless merchandising and franchising opportunity, DreamWorks’ neo-psychedelic Trolls is based on the once ubiquitous range of repellently cute homunculi with rubbery faces and gravity-defying DayGlo coiffures. But, co-directed by Shrek and SpongeBob franchise hand Mike Mitchell and written by the Kung Fu Panda team of Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, Trolls proves an immensely entertaining, highly savvy piece that always has a sardonic wink to remind us that we’re not in Smurfland any more.
Mocking its own glittery cheer something rotten, Trolls pits the pathologically happy, rainbow-coloured imps against a tribe of hideous ogre malcontents, the Bergens, who seem to owe some of their CGI DNA to Fungus the Bogeyman. Justin Timberlake – who’s also executive...
Not since The Magic Roundabout has an animation had me so urgently wondering: “What exactly are these people on?” A shameless merchandising and franchising opportunity, DreamWorks’ neo-psychedelic Trolls is based on the once ubiquitous range of repellently cute homunculi with rubbery faces and gravity-defying DayGlo coiffures. But, co-directed by Shrek and SpongeBob franchise hand Mike Mitchell and written by the Kung Fu Panda team of Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, Trolls proves an immensely entertaining, highly savvy piece that always has a sardonic wink to remind us that we’re not in Smurfland any more.
Mocking its own glittery cheer something rotten, Trolls pits the pathologically happy, rainbow-coloured imps against a tribe of hideous ogre malcontents, the Bergens, who seem to owe some of their CGI DNA to Fungus the Bogeyman. Justin Timberlake – who’s also executive...
- 10/23/2016
- by Jonathan Romney
- The Guardian - Film News
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