John Weldon (Animator)
John Felix Weldon ( born May 11, 1945 in Belleville, Ontario ) is a Canadian animator.
Life
Weldon grew up in Montreal and studied mathematics and psychology at McGill University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree. He then visited the MacDonald Teachers' College for a year. After finishing his studies, Weldon worked for a short while as a trainee in an insurance agency. In his spare time he wrote a musical and a play and wrote and illustrated with Pipkin Papers also a comic book. He arrived in 1970 as a freelance animation assistant to the National Film Board of Canada and began working as a draftsman and tracer. Weldon was in 1975 involved in many films as a director and screenwriter, where he had taught the basics of Animationsfilmens itself. For Special Delivery, in which he directed along with Eunice Macaulay, he received an Oscar in 1979.
The NFB published 2003 under the title John Weldon 's Deeper dementia a short retrospective on Weldon's work. Anima Mundi praised Weldon's work in 2004: "No matter what technique he uses, drawing, dolls, electronic data processing, there is always Weldon mind up with humor thoughtful or conversely, to bring the universe of thought laugh ".
In 2004, he retired; his last film for the NFB was Home Security. Since then, he writes songs and working on comics.
Weldon is verheitet; the marriage produced a son and a daughter.