Ginger Gibbons: Children's Animation Director and Creator of Pre-school Animation and Cartoons (UK)
Ginger Gibbons is a well accomplished UK based producer and children's animation
director, whose credits include 'Angelina Ballerina', 'Percy the Park Keeper'
and 'The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends'. After leaving Epsom and Ewell School
of Art, Ginger Gibbons trained as an animator before becoming a children's animation
director at Larkin's Studio and Richard Taylor Cartoons. Moving on to Halas and
Batchelor, Ginger worked on commercials and gained his first experience as an
animator on children's films on the Edward Lear series. He then became chief animator
at the Trickfilm Studio, London, making TV commercials before forming his own
studio Gingerbread Animation. After then, spending a year in Paris, on his return,
Ginger Gibbons teamed up with Geoff Dunbar at the Grand Slamm Partnership. After
making many award winning commercials, he was the producer of three half hour
films for the Beatrix Potter series [The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends]. These
included 'The Tale of Mr Todd and the Further Adventures of Benjamin Bunny', 'The
Tale of Mrs Tiggywinkle and Mr Jeremy Fisher' and 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit and
Benjamin Bunny', which were successful worldwide. The latter film was Emmy nominated
in 1992 - 93. By 1994, Grand Slamm Children's Films was formed, with emphasis
on pre-school animation. Already a successful children's animation director, his
success continued with 'Kipper' and 'Percy the Park Keeper' (both of them award
winners). Several years later, the success continued with Toot and Puddle, a pre-school
animation series and winner of the USA Media and Iparenting Award. With his cartoons
and pre-school animation programmes commanding good viewing figures throughout
the UK and beyond, Ginger's role as a children's animation director has seen him
work on further projects, such as 'The Hairdresser's Dog', 'Jijou' and 'The Magic
Bed'.
Ginger Gibbons, Producer
Pre-school Animation UK
Children's Animation Director