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John Stevenson (born 1958) is a British filmmaker and puppeteer. Stevenson has over 40 years of experience with animation. Stevenson worked as a story artist on the feature films The Great Muppet Caper, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth and Little Shop of Horrors and as a character designer and story artist on shows and films like The Dreamstone, Count Duckula, Back to the Future: The Animated Series, The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat, two of the Fox Tales specials and FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue. He also worked as an art director on Back to the Future: The Animated Series and a puppeteer on James & the Giant Peach and Motion Capture Performer on The Moxy Pirate Show. In 1991, Stevenson moved to the United States, and in 1998 he was hired as a head of story at DreamWorks Animation. There he worked for many years in the art department on many films such as Shrek, Shrek 2, Madagascar and Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, in addition to helming a number of episodes of their animated primetime show Father of the Pride. He worked for four years bringing Kung Fu Panda to the screen. In 2009, Stevenson was nominated for an Academy Award with Mark Osborne for Best Animated Feature for Kung Fu Panda and won the Annie Award with Osborne for Directing in a Feature Production. In 2011-12 Stevenson directed a six-minute animated short film for The Coca-Cola Company produced by Ridley and Tony Scott called The Polar Bears. Since 2012, Stevenson has been directing for Rocket Pictures the sequel of Gnomeo & Juliet, titled Sherlock Gnomes, The film was released on 23 March 2018 to negative reception. Stevenson was originally set to work as director for an upcoming film based on the character created by Mattel, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. He was also attached to various projects like The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, We3, Alien Rock Band and Rotten Island. In August 2014, it was announced that Stevenson will direct for Unified Pictures a CG-animated feature film The Ark and the Aardvark inspired by Noah's Ark. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Stevenson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
John Stevenson
Animator
for Animator in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Christmas Special: Deck the Shells
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It's the night before Christmas with the Ninja Turtles (based on the 1987 TV series). The Turtles, along with their sensei Splinter and the 5th Turtle Zach, spend the holidays in April's apartment. After April reads A Visit From St. Nicholas (novel by Clement C. Moore) and everybody goes to bed in order for Santa Claus to show up, Raphael realizes Zach dropped his letter to Santa on the floor and it didn't get mailed to him and informs the other Turtles the situation. Now the Turtles go out in New York to search for old St. Nick and deliver Zach's letter before it's too late, otherwise Zach will be heartbroken. Meanwhile, Shredder plots to kidnap Santa and settle the score with him because when he was little, every Christmas in Japan, Santa never gave him any presents he asked for, and instead of presents, he gave him a stocking full of coal. That's because Shredder was on his naughty list because of his evil deeds. Now the Turtles must rescue Santa and give him Zach's letter so he can read it. From the creators of Legend of the Three Caballeros (2018). Voices by Ben Stiller, Tom Kenny, Steve Carell, David DeLuise, Hugh Laurie, Grey DeLisle, Hynden Walch, Ashley Tisdale, Johnny Depp, Wally Wingert, Eric Bauza, Bruce Lanoil, and Stephen J. Anderson.
