James Baxter
Personal Info
Know For
Visual Effects
Gender
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Birthday
1967-01-01 (58 years old)
Place of Birth
Bristol - England - UK
Also known As
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James Baxter
Biography
British character animator. He was first known for his work on several Walt Disney Animation Studios films, including various characters in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Rafiki in The Lion King, Belle in Beauty and the Beast, and Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. After Notre Dame, Baxter moved over to DreamWorks Animation, where he worked on films such as The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Shrek 2 and Madagascar. Early in 2005, Baxter left DreamWorks and set out on his own as an independent animator. He became the head of his own studio, James Baxter Animation, in Pasadena, California, where he h...
Acting
2009
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Production
2022
as Thanks
2023
as Animation
2002
as Animation Supervisor
2006
as Animation Supervisor
1994
as Animation Supervisor
2008
as Animation Director
1991
as Animation Supervisor
1996
as Animation Supervisor
1998
as Animation
2004
as Animation Supervisor
2013
as Animation
1990
as Animation
2013
as Animation
1988
as Animation
2009
as Animation
2014
as Animation Supervisor
2000
as Animation Supervisor
2005
as Animation Supervisor
2007
as Animation Supervisor
1990
as Animation
2010
as Animation
2015
as Animation Director
2004
as Supervising Animator
2003
as Supervising Animator
2022
as Thanks
2015
as Thanks
2015
as Associate Producer
2004
as Supervising Animator
2020
as Animation
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