Richard Williams (born on March 19, 1933 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian animator. He is best known for serving as animation director on Disney/Amblin's Who Framed Roger Rabbit and for his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler. He was also a film title sequence designer and animator; his most famous works in this field included the title sequences to What's New, Pussycat? (1965), title and linking sequences in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968). He also animated the eponymous cartoon feline for two of the later Pink Panther films.
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"The Thief" and "Roger Rabit" are certainly two of his more important works, and the making of "The Thief" makes for a great animation history story. But I believe the part of the Wiki article you quote missed the Academy Award winning "A Christmas Carol" which is also a very important work.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely! He is such a glorious artist!
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