Life and career
Stevenson worked as a story artist on the feature films ''The Great Muppet Caper'', ''The Dark Crystal'', ''Labyrinth (1986 film), Labyrinth'' and ''Little Shop of Horrors (film), 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 and the Giant Peach (film), 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 (2005 film), 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 (film), Kung Fu Panda'' to the screen. In 2009, Stevenson was nominated for an Academy Award with Mark Osborne (filmmaker), Mark Osborne for Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Best Animated Feature for ''Kung Fu Panda'' and won the Annie Award with Osborne for Annie Award for Directing in a Feature Production, Directing in a Feature Production. In 2011-12 Stevenson directed a six-minute animated short film for The Coca-Cola Company produced by Ridley Scott, 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.References
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* 1958 births Living people Annie Award winners British animated film directors British animators British art directors British expatriates in the United States British film directors British puppeteers British storyboard artists DreamWorks Animation people {{UK-film-bio-stub