Charles Bonifacio

Charles Bonifacio is a Canadian animator who worked on Nelvana productions such as Rock and Rule, Inspector Gadget, Star Wars: Ewoks, the Care Bears television series and the first two Care Bears movies of the 1980s. He was director of animation on The Care Bears Movie[1] and on Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation.[2] In the 1990s, he worked on FernGully: The Last Rainforest and Disney's Mulan.

He has also worked on other animated films and specials including The Land Before Time, Rock-a-Doodle, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Once Upon a Forest, A Cosmic Christmas, all three early films of Strawberry Shortcake, Watership Down (uncredited), Easter Fever, Intergalactic Thanksgiving, The Devil and Daniel Mouse, Romie-0 and Julie-8 and Tarzan II.

In the 1990s, he worked at Sheridan College.[3] Clive A. Smith, one of Nelvana's founders, recruited Bonifacio from Sheridan College among a host of young animators from that institution.[4]

Bonifacio has also worked on the Disney animated films The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan, Lilo & Stitch, Return to Never Land, Tarzan II and Brother Bear 2.

References

  1. Urquhart, Peter (Fall 2003). "You should know something—anything—about this movie. You paid for it". Canadian Journal of Film Studies. Film Studies Association of Canada. 12 (3): 65–80.
  2. Canby, Vincent (1986-03-21). "Screen: Care Bears in a sequel". New York Times. p. C8. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
  3. "Ontario Colleges: 25 years: Courses in demand for a reason – From helicopters to Hollywood, specialized courses find a niche and graduates find jobs". The Globe and Mail. 1992-09-11. p. C9.
  4. Glassman, Marc (2001-12-19). "Clive Smith and his amazing dancing bear". Playback. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
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