ShoWest has named Chris Miller and Raman Hui ShoWest "Animation Directors of the Year." They will be presented with their award at ShoWest's closing night ceremony on March 15, 2007, at Bally's and Paris Las Vegas.
"With their innovative work on SHREK and SHREK 2, Chris Miller and Raman Hui have continually raised the bar for animated features and helped DreamWorks Animation become one of the leaders in animated comedy," said by Mitch Neuhauser, co-managing director of the event underway, March 12-15, in Las Vegas.
Miller and Hui's work can next be seen in the DreamWorks Animation film, SHREK THE THIRD, set for release on May 18. With an all-star cast including Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Rupert Everett, Justin Timberlake and Julie Andrews among others, SHREK THE THIRD continues the journey of the lovable ogre, Shrek.
Making his feature film directing debut with SHREK THE THIRD, Miller joined DreamWorks Animation in 1998 as a story artist on the studio's first animated comedy, ANTZ. He went on to work as a story artist on the Academy Award-winning hit film, SHREK, along with writing additional dialogue and providing the voice of the hilarious Magic Mirror, as well as Gepetto. He served as head of story for SHREK 2. In addition to providing various voices for the SHREK films, he also voiced Kowalski the Penguin in MADAGASCAR. Miller has worked on a wide array of features, commercials, videos and Internet projects, including a short for Steven Spielberg, entitled, STEVEN'S DREAM. His commercial work includes spots for Coca-Cola, Canon, The Comedy Channel and FILA, for which he won a Clio Award for best animated commercial.
For some15 years, Hui has been a major force at PDI/DreamWorks, guiding the animation team from commercials and shorts to feature films. He started at the studio in 1989 working on various commercials and award-winning short films. He became lead character designer/supervising animator on PDI/DreamWorks first full-length CG feature film, ANTZ. He was supervising animator on SHREK, as well as the follow up Universal Studios theme park attraction Shrek 4D and on the blockbuster, SHREK 2. During the past decade at PDI/DreamWorks, Hui has worked on a variety of 3D characters, as well as directed, wrote and produced the celebrated PDI/DreamWorks short film, SLEEPY GUY.
ShoWest (www.showest.com) is the largest annual convention for the motion picture industry. It is the only international gathering devoted exclusively to the movie business and the single largest international gathering of motion picture professionals and theater owners in the world. Each year, ShoWest attracts delegates from more than 50 countries in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. ShoWest is managed by the Nielsen Business Media, a division of The Nielsen Co.
