- Alan Best
Alan Best (b.
2 May 1959 inHamilton, Ontario ) is a Canadiananimation director and producer.Early life
He was educated at
St. George's School (Vancouver) and trained at the Paris atelier of French poster artistPaul Colin .He was production trainee on "Cet obscur objet du désir ", the final film of Spanish-born directorLuis Buñuel .Career
He began his career as an assistant animator working for
Hanna-Barbera studios.He worked on the animated features, " Heavy Metal" (1981), "
Pink Floyd The Wall " (1982), and at the studios ofHalas and Batchelor ,Bob Godfrey , TVC,Bill Melendez , andRichard Williams .He directed the first all-animated
music video , "(How to Be A) Millionaire " for the British pop band ABC and the first CGI-animated television series, "ReBoot ".He was supervising director of the
ABC Family sci-fi series "Galidor " [ [http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=pressdetail&contentid=341&countrycode=2057&yearcode=2002&oldXML=true&archive=true"The Parallel Lives of Alan Best, CGI Supervising Director, Lego Group, 2002"] ] .In 2005 he redesigned Victor, the "
Just for Laughs " festivalmascot .Personal life
He is married to British-born writer Katrina Best (née Barton) with whom he has a son and daughter.
He is the nephew of
Bloomsbury Group sculptor/natural historian Alan Best [ [http://books.google.ca/books?id=U41seKVQbmwC&pg=PA163&dq=%22alan+best%22&ei=cSzASPvlE4m6zASEj6iEBg&sig=ACfU3U2ghx0fY3vFB2wvNLBFGbJMdfFbCw"Journal of the Eightieth Year, May Sarton, W. W. Norton & Company, 1995"] ] and great-great nephew of British printmakerFrank Morley-Fletcher [ [http://woodblock.com/encyclopedia/entries/011_03/interview.html"Woodblock Printing by the Japanese Method, by F. Morley-Fletcher, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1916"] ] .He is a cousin of British portrait painter
Glyn Philpot [ [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Glyn-Philpot-1884-1937-Edwardian-Modernist/dp/0904017613"Glyn Philpot, 1884-1937: Edwardian Aesthete to Thirties Modernist, by Robin Gibson, National Portrait Gallery Publications, 1986"] ] , actorsRonald Colman ,Pamela Brown (actress) and British diplomatDavid Gore-Booth .References
External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078887/"IMDB entry for Alan Best"]
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