Biography
Steven Eric Gordon (born March 23, 1960) is an American film director, character designer and animator, who worked with animation film director Ralph Bakshi and on X-Men: Evolution.
== Career ==
=== Ralph Bakshi ===
He started in animation working on Ralph Bakshi's animated feature Lord of the Rings as a "roto-photo" artist while in high school. He then worked as an assistant animator and eventually animated (roto-scoped) several scenes and was given animator credit on the finished film. He worked for Bakshi on and off for years on films including American Pop and Fire and Ice (as animation director and character designer) working alongside Frank Frazetta and Cool World (as Key Animator on Holli and Lonette).
=== Marvel ===
Gordon was one of the directors on the first Marvel/Lionsgate direct-to-video films, Ultimate Avengers, as well as the character designer for that project and its sequel. He was also one of the directors for the TV series Wolverine and the X-Men. He directed the direct-to-DVD film Stan Lee presents: The Condor featuring Wilmer Valderrama. He was an uncredited storyboard artist on the feature film Terminator Salvation and a director on the second animated TV show The Avengers for Marvel and Starz.
=== Later career ===
In 2009, he co-directed the direct-to-video sequel to Happily N'ever After at Vanguard Animation alongside Boyd Kirkland. It was called Happily N'ever After 2: Snow White Another Bite @ The Apple and it turned out to be a hit on DVD. Over one million copies were sold.