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Jeff Pidgeon
Jeff Pidgeon is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist and voice actor at Pixar. Early life Influenced by Charles M. Schulz's comic strip ''Peanuts'', Jeff Pidgeon dreamed of becoming a newspaper cartoonist. He studied and graduated with a BFA degree from the California Institute of the Arts. He currently lives in Northern California. Career In 1991, he began working for Pixar Animation Studios, where he currently works as a writer, animator, and voice actor. He has worked behind the scenes on films such as '' FernGully: The Last Rainforest'', ''Toy Story'', ''A Bug's Life'', ''Toy Story 2'', '' Monsters, Inc.'' and ''WALL-E'', as well as many US TV shows. He also provided the voice for the " Aliens" in the ''Toy Story'' films and the ''Toy Story Toons'' short, '' Hawaiian Vacation''. He is the designer of Hamton J. Pig in ''Tiny Toon Adventures''. Pidgeon has also manufactured his own toys. Filmography Production work *'' Turning Red'' (2022) - additional s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California Institute Of The Arts
The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a Private university, private art school in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both the visual art, visual and performing arts. It offers Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. The school was first envisioned by many benefactors in the early 1960s including Nelbert Chouinard, Walt Disney, Lulu Von Hagen, and Thornton Ladd. History CalArts was originally formed in 1961, as a merger of the Chouinard Art Institute (founded 1921) and the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music (founded 1883). Both of the formerly existing institutions were going through financial difficulties, and the founder of the Art Institute, Nelbert Chouinard, was terminally ill. Walt Disney was longtime friends with both Chouinard and Lulu May Von Hagen, the chair of the Conservatory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Tiny Toon Adventures Characters
The ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' animated television series features an extensive cast of characters. The show's central characters are mostly various forms of anthropomorphic animals, based on ''Looney Tunes'' characters from earlier films and shows. In the series, the characters attend a high school called Acme Looniversity, set in the cartoon community of Acme Acres. This page lists the characters from ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' and its reboot ''Tiny Toons Looniversity''. Main characters Buster Bunny Buster Bunny (voiced by Charlie Adler in 1990–1992 of the original series and the cancelled 2002 video game, John Kassir in 1992–1999 of the original series, Eric Bauza in ''Tiny Toons Looniversity'') is the leading main character of the show. Buster is a young blue-and-white male bunny rabbit with a red shirt and white gloves, and is Babs's best friend. In the last episode, List of Tiny Toon Adventures episodes#It's a Wonderful Tiny Toon Christmas Special, ''It's a Wonderful Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christmas In Tattertown
''Christmas in Tattertown'' is a 1988 animated television Christmas special created and directed by Ralph Bakshi. The special was an unsold pilot episode for a series, ''Tattertown'', about a place where everything discarded in the world came alive. It aired on the cable television network Nickelodeon. Synopsis A high-strung, self-absorbed young girl named Debbie opens a magic book, sucking her, a stuffed dog, and her doll Miss Muffet into the realm of Tattertown, a Fleischeresque world where discarded items come to life. Miss Muffet rejoices at her newfound sentience and freedom until Debbie attempts to reassert her dominance. Muffet runs off and transforms herself into Muffet the Merciless, set on conquering Tattertown. Sidney the Spider, a villain who had previously made failed attempts at conquering Tattertown, takes Muffet to the "Deadster Zone", the home of "unsavory characters" such as war toys and weapons, to recruit the denizens into her army. A homesick Debbie dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Butter Battle Book
''The Butter Battle Book'' is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss and published by Random House on January 12, 1984. It is an anti-war story: specifically, a parable about arms races in general, mutual assured destruction and nuclear weapons in particular. ''The Butter Battle Book'' was a ''New York Times'' Notable Book of the Year. This book was written during the Cold War era and reflects the concerns of the time, as well as his own, regarding the perceived possibility that humanity could be destroyed in a nuclear war. It can also be seen as a satirical work, with its depiction of a deadly war based on a senseless conflict over something as trivial as a breakfast food. Plot elements of the book were adapted for Warner Bros. Animation's '' Green Eggs and Ham: The Second Serving''. Plot The Yooks and the Zooks live on opposite sides of a long curving wall. The Yooks wear blue clothes; the Zooks wear orange. The primary dispute between the two cultures is that the Yooks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Simpsons
''The Simpsons'' is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening, James L. Brooks and Sam Simon for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a Satire (film and television), satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer Simpson, Homer, Marge Simpson, Marge, Bart Simpson, Bart, Lisa Simpson, Lisa, and Maggie Simpson, Maggie. Set in the fictional town of Springfield (The Simpsons), Springfield, in an unspecified location in the United States, it caricatures society, Western culture, television and the human condition. The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of The Simpsons shorts, animated shorts with producer Brooks. He created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after his own family members, substituting Bart for his own name; he thought Simpson was a funny name in that it sounded similar to "simpleton". The shorts became a part of ''The Tracey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taz-Mania
''Taz-Mania'' is an American animated sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Animation from 1991 to 1995, broadcast in the United States on Fox Kids where it stars the Tasmanian Devil. Similar to other Warner Bros. cartoons of its time, such as ''Animaniacs'' and ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' (both of which were created by ''Taz-Mania'' co-developer Tom Ruegger), ''Taz-Mania'' frequently broke the fourth wall, and often made jokes showing that Taz could actually speak perfectly normally when he wanted to. The title song is performed by Jess Harnell and Jim Cummings. Premise The show follows the adventures of the ''Looney Tunes'' character Taz the Tasmanian Devil in the fictional land of Tazmania (based on Tasmania). The intro indicates that in this rendering of Tasmania "the sky's always yellow, rain or shine". Characters Tazmanian Devil family * Taz the Tazmanian Devil (voiced by Jim Cummings) is the central character of the series and appears in every episode. Taz is the older broth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command
''Buzz Lightyear of Star Command'' is an American animated science fiction comedy television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and co-produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It is a spin-off of Pixar's ''Toy Story'' franchise and presents a fictionalized account of the in-universe character Buzz Lightyear. The series was preceded by the direct-to-video film '' Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins,'' and aired on ABC and UPN from October 2, 2000, to January 13, 2001, as part of Disney's One Saturday Morning and Disney's One Too programming blocks, respectively." While the series is 2D animated, Pixar animated the CGI opening title sequence at the beginning of each episode. The program was animated by Walt Disney Animation Japan, Tama Productions, Sunwoo Entertainment, Sunmin Image Pictures, Sae Hahn Productions, Hana Animation, Jade Animation, Wang Film Productions and Toon City. Developed by Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle, who would late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike's New Car
''Mike's New Car'' is a 2002 American animated comedy short film, starring the protagonists from Pixar's '' Monsters, Inc.'', Mike Wazowski and James P. "Sulley" Sullivan. Directed by Pete Docter and Roger L. Gould, it is the first Pixar short to use dialogue and the first to take characters and situations from a previously established work. The short premiered on September 17, 2002, and was included in the DVD and VHS release of '' Monsters, Inc.'' It was nominated for a 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Plot Mike gets a new six-wheel drive car and happily insists on showing it off to Sulley. While Sulley is confused about what happened to Mike's old car, Mike is excited to drive his new car. Unfortunately for Mike, anything that can go wrong does go wrong. Once inside the car, Sulley attempts to make himself comfortable with the adjustable power seat, but then starts to play with it for fun until an annoyed Mike snaps at him to stop. Mike starts the engine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lifted (2006 Film)
''Lifted'' is a 2006 American animated science fiction short film written and directed by Gary Rydstrom and produced by Pixar Animation Studios. This is the directorial debut of Rydstrom, a Academy Award-winning sound designer, editor and mixer, and the first produced by Katherine Sarafian, who went on to produce Pixar's '' Brave'' released in 2012. Inspired by ''Metropolis'' (1927), the short debuted on October 12, 2006 at the 42nd Chicago International Film Festival at Columbia College, and was released theatrically with Pixar's ''Ratatouille'' on June 29, 2007. Plot A young alien named Stu is inside a spacecraft taking an alien abduction test. He must snatch a sleeping farmer named Ernie under the watchful eye of his impassive examiner, a gelatinous blob named Mr. B. Working from memory, Stu is expected to use an array of thousands of identical unlabeled toggle switches for this purpose; Mr. B's neutral expression gives no hints of which ones to use. Stu's hesitant fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Your Friend The Rat
''Your Friend the Rat'' is a 2007 American animated short film by Pixar, written and directed by Jim Capobianco. The special takes on the form of an educational film and stars rats Remy and Emile, the main protagonists of '' Ratatouille'', who argue for the reconciliation of humans and rats. They use historical facts presented via various styles of animation in a style similar to the ''Adventures in Music'' shorts, ''Melody'' and '' Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom''. This is Pixar's only special to feature traditional animation; at eleven minutes, it is also the 3rd longest Pixar special to date. Along with 2D animation, the short also includes stop-motion animation, computer generated imagery (CGI) and live action, much like the children's television show, '' A Little Curious''. Like ''Ratatouille'', ''Your Friend the Rat'' also features a musical sequence. This is also Pixar's only special to have a cameo of a protagonist of a film that would be released a year later, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Up (2009 Film)
''Up'' is a 2009 American animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed by Pete Docter, co-directed by Bob Peterson, and produced by Jonas Rivera, from a screenplay written by Peterson and Docter, and a story conceived by the duo and Tom McCarthy. The film features the voice talents of Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai and Bob Peterson. The film centers on Carl Fredricksen (Asner), an elderly widower who travels to South America with youngster Russell (Nagai) in order to fulfill a promise that he made to his late wife. In the jungle, they encounter an exotic bird and oppose Carl's childhood idol, who has sinister plans to capture it. Originally titled ''Heliums'', Docter conceived the outline for ''Up'' in 2004 based on fantasies of escaping from life when it became too irritating. He and eleven other Pixar artists spent three days in Venezuela for research and inspiration. The design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsters University
''Monsters University'' is a 2013 American animated Coming-of-age film, coming-of-age comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. A prequel to ''Monsters, Inc.'' (2001), it was directed by Dan Scanlon (in his feature directorial debut), produced by Kori Rae, and written by Scanlon and the writing team of Dan Gerson and Robert L. Baird. John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich served as the film's executive producers. The music for the film was composed and conducted by Randy Newman, making it his seventh collaboration with Pixar. ''Monsters University'' tells the story of the main characters of ''Monsters, Inc.'', James P. "Sulley" Sullivan and Mike Wazowski, and their experience in college leading to them becoming best friends. John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi, Bob Peterson (filmmaker), Bob Peterson and John Ratzenberger reprise their roles as James P. Sullivan, Mike Wazowski, Randall Boggs, Roz and the Abominable Snowm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
