Barrie Nelson

Barrie Nelson (May 7, 1933 – September 29, 2021) was a Canadian animator. He was most noted as the director of the 1971 animated short film Propaganda Message, and the "B-17" segment of the 1981 animated anthology film Heavy Metal.

Early life and career A native of Winnipeg, he studied fine art at the University of Manitoba.

Nelson also worked on the 1978 animated adaptation of Watership Down and the 1990 TV special Garfield's Feline Fantasies.

Films Nelson also later made the short film Ten: The Magic Number, about the adoption of the metric system in Canada, for the NFB. In the United States he continued to work on animated films and television series, Twins (1974), Opens Wednesday (1980), and You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks (1984).

Death Nelson died in Haiku, Hawaii on September 29, 2021, at the age of 88.