David Bowers (director)

David Bowers (born 1970) is an English animator, storyboard artist, film director, screenwriter and voice actor. He studied fine art at Chester School of Art and animation at West Surrey College of Art and Design, and his first job was as an inbetweener on Who Framed Roger Rabbit under Richard Williams. He worked at Cosgrove Hall on Danger Mouse and Count Duckula, then at Steven Spielberg's Amblimation studio, where he animated on An American Tail: Fievel Goes West and was supervising animator on Balto. At DreamWorks he was a story artist on The Prince of Egypt and The Road to El Dorado, and he was storyboard supervisor on Aardman's Chicken Run. He directed Aardman's first computer-animated feature, Flushed Away, with Sam Fell, wrote and directed the animated Astro Boy (2009), and directed the live-action films Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, Dog Days and The Long Haul.