‘Roger Rabbit’ Animator Richard Williams Has Died At 86

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Richard Williams, the Canadian-born animator whose intricate, playful work contains Who Framed Roger Rabbit and two Pink Panther film title sequences, has died, as per The Hollywood Reporter. He was 86.

After making an award-winning quick movie known as The Little Island in 1958, Williams lent his companies to main motion pictures and purchasers. Among his first big-time jobs was designing the frilly, curvy opening credit score sequence to 1965’s What’s New, Pussycat?

He additionally did credit for the movie model of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the 1967 Bond spoof Casino Royale, and, later, each The Return of the Pink Panther and The Pink Panther Strikes Again. The latter is the franchise’s most formidable credit score sequence, with the eponymous feline stitched into parody variations of The Sound of Music, Singin’ within the Rain, and King Kong.

Williams is finest identified for serving because the animation director on Roger Rabbit, designing not solely the title character but in addition Baby Herman and Jessica Rabbit, on prime of overseeing the untold variety of basic animated characters squeezed into the 1988 basic.

In between gigs, Williams labored on his personal pet tasks. He received an Oscar for the 1971 animated model of A Christmas Carol, and helmed the 1977 characteristic Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure.