Producer Camilla Deakin remembers ”considerate, collaborative and respectful” animator.Roger Mainwood, the UK filmmaker and animator, has died after an illness at the age of 65.His credits included the feature animation Ethel & Ernest, which chronicles the lives of the parents of The Snowman illustrator Raymond Briggs.
It was nominated for mutiple awards including best animated feaure at the European Film Awards in 2017.The film was a passion project for Mainwood, who spent eight years developing it, adapting the screenplay from Briggs’ own graphic novel and drawing the majority of the storyboard himself.
He then spent a further two years
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