Charles Bonifacio

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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]

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.