An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

Simon Wells is an English-American film director of animation and live-action films. He is the great grandson of famous author, H. G. Wells. Born in Cambridge, he attended De Montfort University where he studied audio-visual design. Upon graduating he found a job at Richard Williams's studio where... he animated commercials and other projects. Wells later supervised the animation on Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. Wells later became a member of Amblimation, a studio owned by Steven Spielberg, where he served as director on films such as An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story and Balto. Wells was set to direct a sequel to Casper but the project was cancelled. After the closure of Amblimation Wells joined Dreamworks where he worked as storyboard artist on many animated projects, he also directed The Prince of Egypt which was nominated for an Annie Award. In 2002 he directed his first live-action film, a film adaptation of his great-grandfather's book The Time Machine. In 2011 he co-wrote and directed the box office failure Mars Needs Moms using motion-capture technology during the filming.
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Phil Nibbelink is an American animator and film director as well as comic book writer and illustrator. He is a former member of Walt Disney Animation Studios. Nibbelink worked for ten years at Disney and was a directing animator on Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. Then he spent another ten years working... under Steven Spielberg as an animation director, working on such films as An American Tail: Fievel Goes West and Casper as animation director. He also directed an animated adaptation of the children's book We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story for Amblimation. He was working with Dick Zondag and the upcoming movie, Cats when it was cancelled do to the closing of the Amblimation studio in London. In recent years Nibbelink has turned his attention to independent filmmaking, cranking out not just one but three full-length animated features single-handedly. Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss , an animated feature, was made entirely by Nibbelink. His most recent project is as storyboard artist on Wolverine and the X-Men. He is founder and owner of his own company, Phil Nibbelink Productions.
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