Simon Wells

Simon Wells
Born 1961 (age 5455)
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Nationality British
Occupation Film director, storyboard artist, animator, screenwriter
Spouse(s) Wendy Wells

Simon Wells (born 1961) is an English film director of animation and live-action films. He is the great-grandson of author H. G. Wells.

Early life and education

Born in Cambridge, he attended The Perse School and 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.

Career

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 Mars Needs Moms using motion-capture technology during the filming.

Filmography

Film

Year Film Notes
1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit supervising animator
1989 Back to the Future Part II consultant: Future
1990 Back to the Future Part III assistance/thanks
1991 An American Tail: Fievel Goes West director
1993 We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story director
1995 Balto director
1998 Antz additional story artist
The Prince of Egypt director
2000 The Road to El Dorado additional story artist
Chicken Run additional story
2001 Shrek special thanks
2002 The Time Machine director
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron story artist
2003 Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas story artist
2004 Shrek 2 additional story artist
Shark Tale additional story artist
The Polar Express digital visual concept consultant
2005 Madagascar story artist
2006 Over the Hedge story artist
Flushed Away story artist
2007 Shrek the Third story artist
2008 Kung Fu Panda action sequence supervisor/story artist
2011 Mars Needs Moms director/writer
Kung Fu Panda 2 additional story/story artist
2013 The Croods story artist
2016 Kung Fu Panda 3 story artist


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