Biographical note

Richard Williams (1933-2019) was the legendary Director of Animation and designer of the new characters for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, for which he won two Academy Awards, including a Special Achievement Award.
Canadian-born Williams won three US Academy Awards, three British Academy Awards and an Emmy, among 246 international awards - starting with his first film, The Little Island, in 1958. He also animated title sequences for The Return of the Pink Panther, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, What's New Pussycat? and Casino Royale, and linking sequences for The Charge of the Light Brigade, as well as countless prize-winning commercials. In 1990 his peers voted him 'The Animator's Animator'.
His last film, Prologue (2015), was nominated for both a US Academy Award and a British Academy Award.

In 1995 he started giving the Richard Williams Animation Masterclass for professionals and students in London, Hollywood, New York, San Francisco, Vancouver, Sydney, Hong Kong, France and Denmark. This Masterclass was subsequently published as The Animator's Survival Kit in 2001 and became an international best-seller. It is also available in a sixteen-DVD box set, and as an IPad app.

Williams was working on his memoir, Adventures in Animation, when he died in 2019.