Terry Shakespeare

Terry Alan Shakespeare is a director, animator, artist, and character designer, who has also been credited among several other professions. Originally, he worked for Don Bluth under his company, Don Bluth Productions from 1981 through 1987 and served as a key clean-up artist on some of the studios' most critically acclaimed productions, including The Secret of Nimh, An American Tail, and The Land Before Time.
In 1988, he founded Creative Capers Entertainment, a freelance company that has worked with and alongside many other different companies.
For Disney, he worked as part of the Consumer Products design from 1986 through 1988 and provided character designs for many of the theme parks' merchandising, such as some for Toontown, as well as the designs for some of the interior theme designing for several Disney Stores and other divisions throughout the company. Later, he would eventually work for the company as an additional uncredited animator through his company Creative Capers for many of Disney's successful films, including Beauty and The Beast from within the art department, The Tigger Movie as a second unit director/assistant director, Mr. Magoo as a supervising producer, 101 Dalmatians as a creative producer, and several other films.
He is also known as one of the three creators of the short-lived series, Nightmare Ned, as well as serving as a leading director for LEGO's Bionicle film trilogy, which was distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, the legal entity of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, and was released under the Miramax label internationally, however has also been seen in some promotional material from Disney alongside main-line releases from the company (example: Walt Disney Pictures TokenZone), with the first film even receiving a Disney DVD branded release for its' Russian Special Edition release. (see page Disney Special Edition video releases for more information)
He also worked as a vendor for Walt Disney Imagineering from 2009 through 2010.
He has also worked with Disney Interactive for several video games, serving as the director for Goofy's Fun House, Disney's Beauty and The Beast: Magical Ballroom, Tarzan Activity Center, Disney's Animated Storybook: Hercules, Disney's Animated Storybook: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and as an executive producer for Nightmare Ned.
==Disney Filmography==
Year 	Film 	Position 	Notes
1991 	Beauty and the Beast 	Visual development artist (uncredited) 	
1996 	101 Dalmatians 	Creative producer 	
1997 	Mr. Magoo 	Supervising producer (uncredited) 	Position held through Creative Capers Entertainment.
1997 	Nightmare Ned 	Co-creator, director, executive producer, writer, executive creative consultant	
2000 	The Tigger Movie 	Second unit director or assistant director (uncredited) 	Position held through Creative Capers Entertainment.
2003 	Bionicle: Mask of Light 	Director, art director 	Co-distribution with Buena Vista Home Entertainment and Miramax Home Entertainment for a few, albeit relatively obscure releases under the Walt Disney Home Entertainment or Disney DVD branding in Europe, as well as Africa and Asia, and released internationally by Miramax Home Entertainment.
2004 	Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui	Director 	Co-distribution with Buena Vista Home Entertainment and Miramax Home Entertainment for a relatively obscure release under the Walt Disney Home Entertainment brand in the Czech Republic (Czechia), under exclusive license from Imperial Entertainment and released internationally by Miramax Home Entertainment.
Walt Disney Character Voices International, Inc. was also the service provider for handling the Finnish cast and recording operations.
2005 	Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows 	Director, art director, visual effects 	Distribution with Buena Vista Home Entertainment and Miramax Home Entertainment for a relatively obscure release under the Disney DVD brand in the Netherlands, and released internationally by Miramax Home Entertainment.
2015-present	As Told by Emoji 	Executive designer 	Position held through Creative Capers Entertainment.
==Disney Gameography==
Year 	Video game 	Position 	Notes
1994 	Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse 	Animation director, animator	
1994 	Animated StoryBook: The Lion King 	Animation director 	
1995 	Timon & Pumbaa's Jungle Games 	Animation director 	
1995 	Gargoyles (video game) 	Animation director 	
1995 	Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow 	Animation director 	
1996 	Disney's Animated Storybook: The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Supervising director 	
1997 	Hercules (video game) 	Animation director 	
1997 	Nightmare Ned 	Executive producer 	
1997 	Disney's Animated Storybook: Hercules 	Supervising director 	
1999 	Tarzan: Activity Center 	Director 	
2000 	Beauty and the Beast: Magical Ballroom 	Director 	
2001 	Goofy's Fun House 	Director 	
2016-present	Disney Emoji Blitz 	Executive designer 	Position held through Creative Capers Entertainment.
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