Simon Wells was born in 1961 in Cambridge, UK. Herbert Wells' great-grandson. He received his professional education at the Leicester Polytechnic Institute, where he studied audiovisual design. Simon Wells then worked at the studio of animator Richard Williams, working on Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988). After that, the artist moved to the United States, collaborated with Robert Zemeckis on the set of his sequels Back to the Future, worked at the Amblin studio. In 1991, Simon Wells made his debut
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Simon Wells was born in 1961 in Cambridge, UK. Herbert Wells' great-grandson. He received his professional education at the Leicester Polytechnic Institute, where he studied audiovisual design. Simon Wells then worked at the studio of animator Richard Williams, working on Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988). After that, the artist moved to the United States, collaborated with Robert Zemeckis on the set of his sequels Back to the Future, worked at the Amblin studio. In 1991, Simon Wells made his debut as a director - he co-directed the animated film American Tail. This was followed by the cartoons The Dinosaur Story 2 (1993), Bolto (1995), and Prince of Egypt (1998). In 2002, Simon Wells acted as a director of a feature film, putting on the gaming large-budget science fiction film The Time Machine. True, the famous novel of his great-grandfather was somewhat modernized by screenwriters.