Graham Annable was classically trained
as an animator at Sheridan College in Toronto, graduating in 1992.
He
has worked as an animator ever since, including work on
British
children's TV, storyboards for Chuck Jones Enterprises and Disney's
"A Goofy Movie".
Since 1994 he worked on an extended string
of computer game projects for LucasArts such as:
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Star Wars: Obi-Wan,
Full Throttle
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The Dig, Afterlife
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Outlaws
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The Curse of Monkey
Island
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RTX Red Rock
Graham's projects have won numerous animation
and graphics awards including the 1998 ASIFA Annie Award, animation's
highest honor, for "Outstanding Achievement in an Animated
Interactive Program".
Graham was a 2002 "Best
New Talent" Harvey Awards nominee.
Graham Annable's Grickle
was nominated for the YALSA 2002 Best Graphic Novel for Young Adults.
Graham is also the editor of and a contributor to the Hickee humor
anthology.
"The Boxtrolls" is a 2014 American stop-motionanimatedfantasycomedy film directed by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi (in their feature directorial debuts) loosely based on the 2005 novel Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow. It is produced by Laika. The film tells the story of Eggs, a human boy raised by trash-collecting trolls, known as "Boxtrolls", as he attempts to save them from Archibald Snatcher, a pest exterminator.
Graham currently resides in the California Bay
Area.