Craig Welch (September 27, 1948 – May 18, 2020) was a Canadian animator.[1] He was most noted for his short films No Problem, which was a Genie Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the 14th Genie Awards in 1993,[2] and How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels, which won a number of awards at film festivals in 1996.[3]
Welch, a native of Windsor, Ontario,[4] owned an independent bookstore in Oshawa for a number of years before deciding to study animation at Sheridan College, where he released his first short film, Disconnected, as a student project in 1988.[1] He subsequently joined the National Film Board of Canada, for whom he made both No Problem (1992) and How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels (1996).[1]
His final short film, Welcome to Kentucky, was released in 2004, and was a Jutra Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the 7th Jutra Awards in 2005.[5] He then retired from the NFB and settled in Montreal, where he pursued painting.[1] He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in the late 2010s, and died of COVID-19 in Montreal on May 18, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Montreal.[1]