Phil Nibbelink
Phil Nibbelink (born June 3, 1955) is an American
Academy Award-winning Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the 1991 cult animated sequel An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
.
Career
Nibbelink worked for ten years at
Disney and was a directing animator on Who Framed Roger Rabbit.[1] Then he spent ten years working under Steven Spielberg as an animation director, working on films such as An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (which he co-directed with Simon Wells) and Casper as animation director.[2] He also directed an animated adaptation of the children's book We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story for Amblimation.[3] He was originally scheduled to co-direct Balto with Wells, but production on We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story was incomplete, so Wells advised Nibbelink to continue working on We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, while he set to work on Balto. Afterwards, Nibbelink began working with Dick and Ralph Zondag (with whom he and Wells had co-directed We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story) on the upcoming movie, Cats, until it was cancelled after Amblimation's founder and owner, Steven Spielberg, closed the studio in 1997 and co-founded DreamWorks Animation
.
Later works
Nibbelink later turned his attention to independent filmmaking, producing three full-length animated features single-handedly. These films included Puss in Boots (1999) and Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss (2006).[4] He is the founder and owner of his company, Phil Nibbelink Productions. His most recent project is as storyboard artist on Wolverine and the X-Men.
Filmography
- Marmaduke (2022) (co-director, animation director, storyboard artist, additional writing, songwriter)
- Michael Jackson's Halloween (2017) (storyboard artist)
- Animal Crackers (2017) (storyboard artist)
- The Further Adventures of Thunderbolt (2015) (animator)
- Wolverine and the X-Men (2008–2009) (storyboard artist)
- Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss (2006) (voice of Prince,[5] director, producer, writer, editor, animator, background artist, songwriter)
- Leif Ericson: The Boy Who Discovered America (2000) (director, writer, editor, animator, background artist)
- Puss in Boots (1999) (director, writer, editor, animator, background artist, songwriter)
- Boogie Woogie Whale Sing-Along (1997) (director, writer, animator)
- Casper (1995) (animation director)
- We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993) (director)
- The Magic Voyage (1992) (animation director, key animator, storyboard artist)
- An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) (director)
- Oliver & Company (1988) (storyboard artist - uncredited)
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (directing animator, supervising animator)
- The Great Mouse Detective (1986) (character animator)
- The Black Cauldron (1985) (voice of Henchmen, character designer, character animator)
- The Fox and the Hound (1981) (character animator)
- Banjo the Woodpile Cat (1979) (animator: dogs) (uncredited)
External links
References
- ^ RABBIT'- DISNEY'S BOLD GAMBLE IN ANIMATION - The Washington Post[dead link]
- ^ Review/Film; Immigrant Mice Face the Frontier - The New York Times
- ^ Roll Back the Rock: An oral history of We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story for its 25th birthday - SyFy.com
- ^ Phil Nibbelink talks Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss - Animated Views
- ^ Behind The Voice Actors