Charles Bonifacio

Charles Bonifacio is a Canadian animator who worked on Nelvana productions such as Rock and Rule, Inspector Gadget (1983 [TV series)|Inspector Gadget], Star Wars: Ewoks, the The [Care Bears (TV series)|Care Bears television series] and the first two Care Bears movies of the 1980s. He was director of animation on The Care Bears Movie and on Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation. In the 1990s, he worked on FernGully: The Last Rainforest and several Disney Pictures|Disney] animated films.
Bonifacio's other animation credits include A [Cosmic Christmas], Watership Down, The Devil and Daniel Mouse, Romie-0 and Julie-8, Intergalactic Thanksgiving, Easter Fever, the last three Strawberry Shortcake TV specials, The Land Before Time, All Dogs [Go to Heaven], Rock-A-Doodle and Once Upon a Forest. Bonifacio has also worked on Disney's The [Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame], Mulan, Lilo & Stitch, Return to Never Land, Tarzan II and Brother [Bear 2].
In the late 1980s and 1990s, Charles taught classical animation at Sheridan College. Clive A. Smith, one of Nelvana's founders, recruited Bonifacio from Sheridan College among a host of young animators from that institution, one of the few animation schools in the world at the time.