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David Bowers Born Cheshire, England, UK Occupation Animator, Film director, Screenwriter, Voice Actor Years active 1988–present David Bowers is an animator and film director originally from Stockport, Greater Manchester in the UK.
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Early life
Bowers studied animation at West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham, but left during the first year to work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit as an inbetweener under director Richard Williams.
Career
After Roger Rabbit, Bowers worked at Cosgrove Hall on the cult-favourite television shows Danger Mouse and Duckula before moving to London to work for Steven Spielberg's Amblimation studio. He worked as an animator on An American Tail: Fievel Goes West before going freelance to work on advertisments and features. Bowers later returned to Amblimation to work on early story development and as a Supervising Animator on Balto.
With the founding of DreamWorks SKG, Bowers moved to Los Angeles to work as a story artist on The Prince of Egypt and The Road to El Dorado. It was during this period that he met Aardman's Nick Park and Peter Lord, who asked him to help storyboard Aardman’s first feature-length film, the critically acclaimed Chicken Run. He was ultimately credited as Storyboard Supervisor.
After Chicken Run, Bowers moved between Los Angeles and Bristol, United Kingdom, working on several DreamWorks and Aardman projects, including the hit CG animated comedy Shark Tale and the Oscar-winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit before directing his first feature Flushed Away with Sam Fell.
He directed a big-screen adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's classic Astro Boy for Imagi Animation Studios and Summit Entertainment that was released in 2009.[1]
Bowers directed Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, his first live-action film, which was released in cinemas on 25 March 2011.[2][3]
Filmography
Year Film Notes 1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit Inbetween artist 1989 Count Duckula Animator (one episode) 1991 An American Tail: Fievel Goes West Animator 1992 Danger Mouse Animator (four episodes) 1992 FernGully: The Last Rainforest Animator 1993 We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story Animator 1995 Balto Storyboard artist, supervising animator: "Rosy" 1998 The Prince of Egypt Storyboard artist 2000 Chicken Run Storyboard artist 2000 The Road to El Dorado Storyboard artist 2004 Shark Tale Story artist 2005 Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Senior storyboard artist 2006 Flushed Away Director, screenplay, additional voices 2009 Astro Boy Director, writer, voice of Mike The Fridge 2010 The RRF in New Recruit Director, voice of Mike The Fridge (short film) Astro Boy vs. The Junkyard Pirates Director (short film) 2011 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Director 2012 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days References
- ^ Frater, Patrick (October 10, 2009). "Imagi hitches rocket to 'Astro Boy'". The Hollywood Reporter (e5 Global Media). http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/david-bowers-direct-wimpy-sequel-24917. Retrieved August 28, 2010.
- ^ Kit, Borys (June 23, 2010). "David Bowers to direct 'Wimpy' sequel". The Hollywood Reporter (e5 Global Media). http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3ic25a0caf931c8924bdba883636df9070. Retrieved August 28, 2010.
- ^ McClintock, Pamela (June 23, 2010). "Bowers in talks for 'Wimpy' sequel". Variety (Reed Business Information). http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118020969. Retrieved August 28, 2010.
External links
2010s Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011) · Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012)Categories:- Living people
- English film directors
- English animators
- Animated film directors
- People from Stockport
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