Sam Fell

Samuel Jason Fell born 22 November 1965 is a British animator director screenwriter and voice actor Sam started his career as director on the short film The Big Cheese for 3 Peach Animation He then joined Aardman Animations and worked on projects like Pop Peter Lords Oscarnominated short film Wats Pig as well as Rex the Runt before directing the 2002 project Chump He also developed a childrens TV series called Rabbits In 2001 he came up with the story of Flushed Away which he developed through 2002 From 2003 he went on to direct with David Bowers the film for Aardman He also provided the voices for the characters Liam The Prophet Ladykiller and Fanseller From 2008 he went on to direct The Tale of Despereaux for Universal Studios and also provided the voices of the characters Ned and Smudge Fell codirected Laikas ParaNorman with Chris Butler which was released in the United States in August 2012