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Bill Perkins(Born 1954 in North Bay, Ontario is an Canadian animator and Animation designer who has worked on such films as Heavy Metal, The Care Bears Movie, " Balto", "The Iron Giant" and The PowerPuff Girls Movie".

Early in his career, Perkins studied Character Animation at The California Instititute of the Arts (CalArts)in the early years of the now renowned Disney Character Animation program and worked on some of the earliest Raccoons specials and 1981's Heavy Metal. He was a Storyboard Artist on the original "Inspector Gadget" series, a story baord artist as well as unit director for 1985's The Care Bears Movie''; the following year, after having the same job for its sequel. He subsequently worked for Hanna Barbera productions as a supervising director on "The Smurfs" then sequed into Computer Animation (1990). Joining SOFTIMAGE (1993) he directed the construction of "industry compliant" interfaces in the emerging field of Digital Ink and Paint technologies. He was a lead member of the team responsible for the first successfull completion of an animated feature film (Balto) using commercally available software (Softimage Toonz) and a key figure in the effort to introduce and implement technology into the 2D Animation production process during the years of the Animation renisannce (1994-1999) He currently ( as of 2006) resides in Ottawa Canada and is involved in the production of Interactive DVD's based on children's books.

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