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List Of Pixar Staff
This is a list of staff at Pixar Animation Studios. This includes past Pixar employees, as well as those who served as its primary directors and creative executives. Key * AB: Ash Brannon * AlB: Alan Barillaro * AC: Andrew Coats * AG: Axel Geddes * AnG: Anthony Greenberg * AJ: Andrew Jimenez * AM: Angus MacLane * AdM: Adrian Molina * AuM: Austin Madison * AJR: A. J. Riebli * ARS: Alvy Ray Smith * AS: Andrew Stanton * AW: Andrea Warren * BA: Bonnie Arnold * BAR: Bobby Alcid Rubio * BB: Brad Bird * BB: Ben Burtt * BC: Brenda Chapman * BF: Brian Fee * BL: Bud Luckey * BnL: Brian Larsen * BrL: Brad Lewis * BP: Bob Peterson * BPD: Bobby Podesta * BoP: Bob Pauley * BW: Brad West * CA: Catherine Apple * CK: Craig Kellman * DB: Dylan Brown * DC: Daniel Chong * DF: Danielle Feinberg * DG: Dan Gerson * DH: Darren Holmes * DKA: Darla K. Anderson * DL: Dan Lee * DLM: Daniel López Muñoz * DM: Dave Mullins * DaM: Dana Murray * DR: Denise Ream * DS: Dan Scanlon * DoS: Doug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pixar Animation Studios
Pixar (), doing business as Pixar Animation Studios, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films. Pixar is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, a segment of the Walt Disney Company. Pixar started in 1979 as part of the Lucasfilm computer division. It was known as the Graphics Group before its Corporate spin-off, spin-off as a corporation in 1986, with funding from Apple Inc., Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who became its majority shareholder. Disney announced its acquisition of Pixar in January 2006, and completed it in May 2006. Pixar is best known for its feature films, technologically powered by RenderMan (software), RenderMan, the company's own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan Interface Specification Rendering (computer graphics), image-rendering API. The studio's mascot is Luxo Jr. (cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Kellman
Craig Kellman (born September 28, 1971) is an American animator, character designer and director. He is best known for his work on ''Madagascar'' (2005), ''Hotel Transylvania'' (2012), ''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2'' (2013), ''Trolls'' (2016), ''The Powerpuff Girls'' and ''Samurai Jack''. Background Kellman attended the California Institute of the Arts as a part of their character animation program. At 18, he started work in animation on ''Bobby's World''. He would go on to produce and direct ''The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat'' at 23 and work on major animated series, such as ''Dexter's Laboratory'', ''The Powerpuff Girls'', ''Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends'' and HBO's ''The Ricky Gervais Show''. Awards and nominations Kellman has received multiple awards and nominations for his works in animation. He has been nominated twice for an Emmy, winning one 2017 for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation" for episode "XCII" of ''Samurai Jack''. Kellman also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Catmull
Edwin Earl Catmull (born March 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist and animator who served as the co-founder of Pixar and the President of Walt Disney Animation Studios. He has been honored for his contributions to 3D computer graphics, including the 2019 ACM Turing Award. Early life Edwin Catmull was born on March 31, 1945, in Parkersburg, West Virginia. His family later moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, where his father first served as principal of Granite High School and then of Taylorsville High School. Early in his life, Catmull found inspiration in Disney movies, including '' Peter Pan'' and ''Pinocchio'', and wanted to be an animator; however, after finishing high school, he had no idea how to get there as there were no animation schools around that time. Because he also liked math and physics, he chose a scientific career instead. He also made animation using flip-books. Catmull graduated in 1969, with a B.S. in physics and computer science from the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Silverman (animator)
David Silverman (born March 15, 1957) is an American animator who has animation director, directed numerous episodes of the animated television series ''The Simpsons'', as well as its The Simpsons Movie, 2007 film adaptation. Silverman was involved with the series from the very beginning, animating all of the original The Simpsons shorts, short ''Simpsons'' cartoons that aired on ''The Tracey Ullman Show''. He went on to serve as director of animation for several years. He also did the animation for the 2016 film ''The Edge of Seventeen'', which was produced by Gracie Films. Early life and career Silverman was born to a American Jews, Jewish family on Long Island, New York. His father, Joseph Silverman, was a chemical engineering professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, for over 30 years. He grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, and attended the University of Maryland for two years, focusing on art. He then attended UCLA and majored in animation. Early in his career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domee Shi
Domee Shi (; ; born 8 September 1989) is a Canadian animator, film director and screenwriter. She has directed the short film '' Bao'' (2018) and the feature films '' Turning Red'' (2022) and ''Elio'' (2025), becoming the first woman to direct a short film and then the first woman with sole director's credit on a feature film for Pixar. Shi began working for Pixar in 2011 as a storyboard artist, contributing to multiple films, including '' Inside Out'' (2015), ''The Good Dinosaur'' (2015), and ''Toy Story 4'' (2019). She was also an additional story artist for ''Incredibles 2'' (2018). For ''Bao'', Shi won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 91st Academy Awards, and also earned nominations for the 43rd Annie Awards, the International Online Cinema Awards, and the Tribeca Film Festival. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for ''Turning Red''. Early life Shi was born on 8 September 1989 in Chongqing, Sichuan (now Chongqing muni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Sweetland
Doug Sweetland is an American animator and filmmaker. He wrote and directed the Pixar short film ''Presto (film), Presto'' (2008), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Career In 1994, Sweetland joined Pixar after graduated from California Institute of the Arts which Sweetland attended in 1992. His first assignment was as an animator on ''Toy Story''. He continued as animator on ''A Bug's Life'', and ''Toy Story 2''. He was nominated for an Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Character Animation for the film. Sweetland was awarded Annie Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Character Animation for ''Monsters, Inc.'' and ''Finding Nemo''. He was supervising animator on Bud Luckey's ''Boundin''' and worked as an animator and storyboard artist on ''The Incredibles''. Sweetland followed this being supervising animator on John Lasseter's ''Cars (film), Cars''. In 2007, Sweetland pitched a short film about a sympathetic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Scanlon
Daniel Scanlon (born June 21, 1976) is an American filmmaker, storyboard artist, and animator. He is best known for directing the Pixar animated films ''Monsters University'' (2013) and ''Onward (film), Onward'' (2020), with the latter nominating him for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Early life Scanlon grew up in Clawson, Michigan, Clawson, Michigan. When he was one year old and his brother three years old, their father died, and when they were teenagers, a relative gave them a brief audio recording of their father. Scanlon has said that these experiences helped inspire the story of ''Onward (film), Onward.'' He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design in 1998. Career Scanlon was an animator for ''The Indescribable Nth'' and ''Joseph: King of Dreams''. He served as a storyboard artist for ''The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea'' and ''101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure''. Scanlon joined Pixar in 2001, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana Murray
Dana Leigh Murray is an American animator and film producer, best known for being the producer on the 2020 Pixar film ''Soul'', for which she has won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, alongside its director and co-producer Pete Docter. Filmography * TBA: ''Incredibles 3'' (producer) * 2020: ''Soul'' (producer) * 2019: ''Smash and Grab'' (Short) (executive producer) * 2017: ''Lou'' (Short) (producer) * 2015: '' Inside Out'' (production manager) * 2012: ''Brave'' (art manager) * 2010: ''Kilo'' (Short) (production manager) * 2009: '' Up'' (layout manager) * 2007: ''Ratatouille'' (lighting manager) * 2006: '' Lifted'' (Short) (production coordinator) * 2005: ''One Man Band'' (Short) (production coordinator) * 2005: '' Jack-Jack Attack'' (Video short) (production coordinator) * 2003: ''Making Nemo'' (Video short documentary) (very special thanks) * 2003: ''Finding Nemo'' (unit coordinator: digital final - as Dana Leigh Murray) Awards a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Lee (animator)
Dan Lee (May 19, 1969 – January 15, 2005) was a Canadian-American animator, best known as the character designer of Nemo, the title character from ''Finding Nemo''. Early life Lee was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1969, the youngest of four children of Chinese immigrants and grew up in Scarborough, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. He graduated with honours from the animation program at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. Career He worked on television cartoons and commercials for several studios, including Kennedy Cartoons in Toronto and Colossal Pictures in San Francisco before joining Pixar in June 1996. He worked as an animator on ''Darkwing Duck'' and ''Goof Troop'' while at Kennedy Cartoons. Personal life Lee died on January 15, 2005, in Berkeley, California, at the age of 35 years old, after a 17-month battle with lung cancer. ''Ratatouille'' was dedicated to him. Filmography * ''A Bug's Life'' (1998) – Additional character designer, animator, sketch artist * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darla K
Darla is a female given name of English origin which is a variant of Darlene. Darla means “Darling” Darla may refer to: People * Darla K. Anderson (), American film producer * Darla Hood (1931–1979), American child actress, best known for her role in the ''Our Gang'' series * Darla Moore (born 1954), American businesswoman * Darla Pacheco (born 1989), Puerto Rican model * Darla Vandenbossche (born 1963), Canadian actress Fictional characters * Darla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a vampire in ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' * Darla (''Finding Nemo''), character in the animated film ''Finding Nemo'' * Darla Aquista, also called the Warlock's Daughter, a DC Comics character * Darla Dudley, a DC Comics character from ''Shazam!'' comics and a member of the Shazam Family * Darla Forrester, in ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' * Darla Dimple, the main antagonist of the 1997 animated musical comedy film ''Cats Don't Dance'' Other uses * Darla (''Angel'' episode) * Darla (dog), an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren T
Darren is a masculine given name of uncertain etymological origins. Some theories state that it originated from an Anglicisation of the Irish first name Darragh or Dáire, meaning "oak tree". According to other sources, it is thought to come from the Gaelic surname meaning "great", but is also linked to a Welsh mountain named Moel Darren. It is also believed to be a variant of Darrell, which originated from the French surname ''D'Airelle'', meaning "of Airelle". The common spelling of Darren is found in the Welsh language, meaning "edge": Black Darren and Red Darren are found on the eastern side of the Hatterrall Ridge, west of Long Town. In New Zealand, the Darran Mountains are in the south of the country. The name increased in use for boys after American author Zane Grey used the name Daren Lane for the hero of his 1922 novel ''The Beast''; a number of American parents used the full name of the character, Daren Lane, as first and middle names for their sons. While the nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Gerson
Daniel Robert Gerson (August 1, 1966 – February 6, 2016) was an American screenwriter and voice actor, best known for his work with Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He co-wrote the screenplays of ''Monsters, Inc.'', ''Monsters University'' and '' Big Hero 6'', which was reported to be his last film as screenwriter. Gerson contributed material to '' Chicken Little'', ''Cars'', ''Meet the Robinsons'', '' Up'', '' Inside Out'' and ''Zootopia'', as well as television shows including ''Misguided Angeles'', ''Big Wolf on Campus'' and '' Something So Right''. ''Big Hero 6'' won the Academy Award for best animated film and was also the highest-grossing animated film of 2014. He also won a BAFTA award. Early life Gerson grew up in New York on the Upper West Side and attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School before studying at Cornell University, where he was a member of the Sigma Pi fraternity, Mu chapter. He then studied for an MFA at NYU and wrote for NB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
