Bill Boes

Bill Boes serves as production designer of the Disney Channel Original Movie "Upside-Down Magic," based on The New York Times best-selling fantasy-fiction children's book series of the same name. Boes has received two Art Directors Guild Awards for "Excellence in Production Design" for his work on "A Series of Unfortunate Events" and Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow," the latter of which also received an Oscar® for "Best Art Direction-Set Decoration." His other production design credits include "The Nightmare Before Christmas," "Coraline," "James and the Giant Peach" and "Planet of the Apes"—also with Tim Burton—as well as "Hulk," "Alien: Resurrection," "Scooby-Doo," "Fantastic 4" and "The Smurfs." Inspired by Ray Harryhausen, the creator of the stop-motion model animation known as "Dynamation," Boes turned his childhood love of building models and puppets and animating stop-motion animated films in the garage into his robust, decades-long career. He credits his background in animation with an increased awareness of how visuals can motivate story and how images can affect emotion, mood and thought. Born in Santa Cruz, California, Boes studied film and art at San Francisco State University. Before Boes got into film production he worked as a staff toy designer for Galoob Toys in South San Francisco, one of the notable products were the successful "Micro Machines" line. In his downtime, he loves traveling the world, meeting different people and working in different cultures.