John Stevenson (born 1958) is a British filmmaker and puppeteer. Stevenson has over 40 years of experience with animation. Stevenson worked as a story artist on the feature films The Great Muppet Caper, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth and Little Shop of Horrors and as a character designer and story artist on shows and films like The Dreamstone, Count Duckula, Back to the Future: The Animated Series, The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat, two of the Fox Tales specials and FernGully 2: The Magical Rescu
We loved the martial arts genre. We watched so many of those movies, classic Shaw Brothers films, Kurosawa's films like Yojimbo and Seven Samurai, and the more recent films like Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Zhang Yimou's Hero. We wanted to pay homage to those films, not parody them.