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 [ citation needed ] 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]