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Alan Best (b. 2 May 1959 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian animation director and producer.
Early life
editHe was educated at St. George's School (Vancouver) and trained at the Paris atélier of French poster artist Paul Colin. He was production trainee on Cet obscur objet du désir, the final film of Spanish-born director Luis Buñuel.
Career
editHe began his career as an assistant animator working for Hanna-Barbera studios.
He worked on the animated features, Heavy Metal (film) (1981), Pink Floyd The Wall (1982), and at the studios of Halas and Batchelor, Bob Godfrey, TVC, Bill Melendez, and Richard Williams.
He directed the first all-animated music video, (How to Be A) Millionaire for the British pop band ABC (band).
He was supervising director of the ABC Family sci-fi series Galidor[1].
In 2005 he redesigned Victor, the Just for Laughs festival mascot.
Personal life
editHe 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[2] and great-great nephew of British printmaker Frank Morley-Fletcher[3].
He is a cousin of British portrait painter Glyn Philpot[4], actors Ronald Colman, Pamela Brown (actress) and British diplomat David Gore-Booth.
References
edit- ^ The Parallel Lives of Alan Best, CGI Supervising Director, Lego Group, 2002
- ^ Journal of the Eightieth Year, May Sarton, W. W. Norton & Company, 1995
- ^ Woodblock Printing by the Japanese Method, by F. Morley-Fletcher, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1916
- ^ Glyn Philpot, 1884-1937: Edwardian Aesthete to Thirties Modernist, by Robin Gibson, National Portrait Gallery Publications, 1986