Paul Berry (animator)

Paul Thomas berry (13 March 1961 – 26 June 2001) was a British stop-motion animator who first worked on Cosgrove Hall's Wind In The Willows before directing the 1991 Oscar-nominated ^[1] short horror stop-motion animation film The Sandman. ^[2] In 1992 the film was awarded the Craft Prize for Best Animation at Ottawa International Animation Festival. ^[3]

Career[]

Other projects Paul Berry worked on included The Nightmare Before Christmas (animator), James and the Giant Peach (animation supervisor), Monkeybone (supervising animator) ^[4] and the music video for Primus' cover of The Devil Went Down to Georgia.

Death[]

On 26 June 2001 Berry died of a brain tumour. He had stayed strong for several months prior to his death. He was 40 years old. ^[5]

References[]

External links[]

• Paul Berry at IMDb
• The Sandman on YouTube watch full version of Paul Berry's short film

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