Alan Best

Alan Best started out as an assistant animator for Hanna-Barbera while still in high school. He went on to study art and design in Paris at the atelier of the art deco poster artist Paul Colin. As trainee at France's Studios Éclair, he worked under such directors as Eric Rohmer, Claude Lelouch and Luis Buñuel. In London, he returned to animation as background artist, designer and animator at the studios of George Dunning, Bob Godfrey, Oscar Grillo and Richard Williams. He produced and directed the first-ever fully animated music video, How to be a Millionaire, for the pop band ABC. Throughout the nineteen-eighties he produced and directed numerous commercials and music videos, branching out into live-action, computer-generated animation and visual effects. Since the nineties he has been a North American-based producer/director of television series and features.