Denis Rich

Denis Rich (1930-2007) was a British film production artist, primarily storyboards, who worked on The Dark Crystal, credited as a sketch artist. Some of his work on the film was displayed on the 2009 Blu-ray release extra feature "Storyboard Track: Picture-in-Picture." He subsequently worked on Return to Oz (which, while it was not a Creature Shop project, involved considerable overlap of performers and crew) and was a storyboard artist on the Creature Shop-effects film 101 Dalmatians.
Rich's career dated to the 1960s, initially as an animator primarily on projects where graphic design or stylized characters were prioritized rather than fluid movement, such as the short The Transformer (with The Yellow Submarine art director Heinz Edelmann), shorts by Bob Godfrey, the Tarzan spoof Tarzoon, and a 1977 animated/live-action version of Gulliver's Travels. Most of his film work however was providing storyboards or production illustrations for live-action films. He was credited on Superman 1978 for designing the main title sequence (in which a curtain opens, a hand reads Action Comics, and it transitions to the Daily Planet, the Moon, and finally the opening credits) and did storyboard work on the first two sequels.
Rich storyboarded For Your Eyes Only, Son of the Pink Panther, the 1993 version of The Three Musketeers, the 1998 movie based on TV's The Avengers, multiple Harry Potter films, Anna and the King, and Finding Neverland. He sporadically returned to animation, storyboarding two Paul McCartney shorts, as storyboard director on the British feature film Freddie as F.R.O.7., and a stint with Disney in the story development department for The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Mulan. His final screen credit was on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
==External links==
*IMDb
*Blog entry by animation artist Hans Bacher
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