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Alastair Swinnerton
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Alastair Swinnerton is a UK writer/producer known mostly for his involvement with Lego Bionicle, which he co-created with Bob Thompson and Martin Andersen of Lego and Christian Faber of Danish advertising agency Advance. [1]
However, he has been writing and creating animation since the late 1980's, and was the co-creator and co-writer of The Baskervilles, Alphanim's 2000 26 half hour cartoon series set in Hell, or a theme park based on Hell depending on which country it was viewed in. [2] He has many other credits, including the 1998 series of The Wombles, [3] and the second season of the Emmy-nominated Disney Channel/Dorling Kindersley series Amazing Animals. [4] He has been associated with various companies, including Corsham Entertainment, in which he was briefly partnered by Gary Kurtz, producer of Star Wars, and Richard Bazeley, a former Disney animator. [5] Most recently he was the writer, and co-director & co-producer with Neil Graham of London's Zoo Films, of The Tale of Jack Frost, a half hour CGI Christmas special based on the David Melling book that aired on CBBC at Christmas 2004 and which was nominated for a BAFTA in 2005. [6]