Animator and Director. Three time Oscar winner, best known for the animation in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" He attended the Ontario College of Art and Design University prior to emigrating to Spain and then London. His first film, "The Little Island" (1958), won a BAFTA award for Best Animated Film. His early work included designing animated title effects for movies like "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" (1966), "Casino Royale" (1967), and "The Pink Panther" (1975). He won his first Oscar in 1972 for the animated adaption of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" which aired on ABC in December 1971 and then released in movie theaters shortly after. He also shared an Emmy with two producers for the Christmas animated special "Ziggy's Gift" (1982) based on the Tom Wilson cartoon character. His best known work was "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" (1988). As director of animation, he oversaw a team of 340 people and created the characters of Roger Rabbit and his human wife Jessica. The movie was a departure from earlier animation like Mary Poppins, integrating live action and animation seamlessly. The animation involved using cartoon cels, transparent sheets on which the animation was drawn or painted, and optical compositing, which involved using multiple film projectors, linked to a movie camera. He, along with Ken Ralston, Ed Jones and George Gibbs, won an Oscar for Best Special Effects; and he was also awarded a special achievement Oscar for his animation direction. His final film, "Prologue" (2015), was also nominated for an Oscar. He taught workshops on animation and was described by animator Don Hertzfeld as "our Michaelangelo... a master of space and movement whose technical abilities were simply unparalleled in modern hand-drawn animation.” At the age of 86, he still worked seven hours a day up to his death at his home in Bristol, England from cancer.