Alastair Swinnerton
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Alastair Swinnerton is a UK writer/producer known mostly for his involvement with Lego's Bionicle, which he co-created with Bob Thompson and Martin Andersen of Lego and Christian Faber of Danish advertising agency Advance.
However, he has been writing and creating animation since the late 1980's, and was the co-creator and co-writer of The Baskervilles, Alphanim's 2000 26 half hour cartoon series set in Hell, or a theme park based on Hell depending on which country it was viewed in. He has many other credits, including the 1998 series of The Wombles, and the second season of the Emmy-nominated Disney Channel/Dorling Kindersley series Amazing Animals. He has been associated with various companies, including Corsham Entertainment, in which he was briefly partnered by Gary Kurtz, producer of Star Wars, and Richard Bazeley, a former Disney animator. Most recently he was the writer, and co-director & co-producer with Neil Graham of London's Zoo Films, of The Tale of Jack Frost, a half hour CGI Christmas special based on the David Melling book that aired on CBBC at Christmas 2004 and which was nominated for a BAFTA in 2005.
