Charles Bonifacio
Canadian animator
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Charles Bonifacio is a Canadian animator who worked on Nelvana productions such as Rock and Rule, Inspector Gadget, Star Wars: Ewoks, the Care Bears television series and the first two Care Bears movies of the 1980s. He was director of animation on The Care Bears Movie[1] and on Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation.[2] In the 1990s, he worked on FernGully: The Last Rainforest and several Disney animated films.
Bonifacio's other animation credits include A Cosmic Christmas, Watership Down (uncredited), The Devil and Daniel Mouse, Romie-0 and Julie-8, Intergalactic Thanksgiving, Easter Fever, the last three Strawberry Shortcake TV specials, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Rock-A-Doodle and Once Upon a Forest. Bonifacio has also worked on Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan, Lilo & Stitch, Return to Never Land, Tarzan II[citation needed] and Brother Bear 2.
In the late 1980s and 1990s, Charles taught classical animation at Sheridan College.[3] Clive A. Smith, one of Nelvana's founders, recruited Bonifacio from Sheridan College among a host of young animators from that institution, one of the few animation schools in the world at the time.[4]
