ERIC LEIGHTON (Director), a 1994 Academy Award® nominee for his contribution to the visual effects on "The Nightmare Before Christmas," also makes his feature film directing debut on "Dinosaur." Prior to this assignment, he had earned a reputation for being one of the industry's top stop- motion animation talents. Born in San Diego, California, Leighton began making his own animated films at the age of 10 with a single-frame home movie camera. He went on to study film and animation at San Francisco State before getting his first professional assignment as a stop-motion animator on the "Gumby" television series. This was followed by a stint at Colossal Films in San Francisco, where he supervised as many as 30 Pillsbury Doughboy commercials, among others. Director Henry Selick tapped him to be the animation supervisor on Touchstone Pictures' landmark stop-motion feature, Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas." His other credits include work on "Robocop II" as well as assignments for ILM and Phil Tippett Studios.
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