More than an animator, Williams was an artist. “A lot of people stop at the fact that he was a perfectionist without asking why he was that way,” said Schreck.

“The best is yet to come,” Richard Williams said as he accepted a Special Achievement Award for his work on “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” during the 1988 Academy Awards. In retrospect, the Canadian ...

Williams was notorious for his perfectionism, going over budget and deadline on nearly every project. He not only wished for “The Thief” to become his magnum opus but the most ambitious ...

While in Canada, Williams wrote “The Animator’s Survival Kit,” an instructional book that has become required reading for virtually every animation program in the world. His short film “Prologue” ...

Just in time for the twentieth anniversary of its publication, the late Richard Williams’s essential how-to book The Animator’s Survival Kit is being reissued by Faber & Faber.

Richard Williams was an Oscar -winning animation director best known for his work on the 1988 hit Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a film that triggered the revival of animation as a viable format for cinema.

Born: March 19, 1933; Died: August 16, 2019 Richard Williams, who has died of cancer aged 86, was an animator who won no fewer than three Oscars. He got two for his work on creating the wacky ...

Richard Williams, the animator known for his work on “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” and two “Pink Panther” films, is dead, his family told PA Media, the UK national news agency. He was 86 years ...

Richard Edmund Williams, animator, voice actor, director, and writer. Born: 19 March 1933 in Toronto, Canada. Died: 16 August 2019 in Bristol, aged 86 ...

LONDON (AP) — Richard Williams, a Canadian-British animator whose work on the bouncing cartoon bunny in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” helped blur the boundaries between the animated world and ...

Before she joined Vox in 2014, she was the first TV editor of the A.V. Club. Legendary animator Richard Williams died Friday, August 16, 2019, at the age of 86.

Richard Williams, an Oscar-winning animator who seemed to imbue his ink and pencil creations with real flesh and fur, no more so than in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, an eye-popping merger of live ...