Tasha Sounart (née Wedeen, formerly Harris) is an American animator, artist,

video game designer Video game design is the process of designing the rules and content of video games in the Video game development#Pre-production, pre-production stage and designing the gameplay, environment, storyline and characters in the Video game development ...

, and writer. She was the designer of Double Fine's

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RPG RPG may refer to: Military * Rocket-propelled grenade, a shoulder-launched anti-tank weapon **''Ruchnoi Protivotankoviy Granatomyot'' (Russian: ''Ручной Противотанковый Гранатомёт''), hand-held anti-tank grenade laun ...

'' Costume Quest''. She is currently an Associate Creative Director of Theme Parks at

Pixar 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 ...

Career

Tasha Sounart began her career as an animator on ''

A Bug's Life ''A Bug's Life'' (stylized in all lowercase) is a 1998 American animated comedy film directed by John Lasseter from a screenplay written by Andrew Stanton, Donald McEnery, and Bob Shaw, and a story conceived by Lasseter, Stanton, and Joe Ran ...

'' at

. She was an animator there for nine years, before leaving Pixar for Double Fine Productions. At Double Fine, she was the lead animator on '' Brütal Legend''. During the period of time when ''Brütal Legend'' was left with no publisher, the head of the Double Fine studio, Tim Schafer, gave the project leads a chance to forget about what they were doing and come up with concepts and lead a team on smaller projects over the course of two weeks to develop prototype games, dubbed the "Amnesia Fortnight". Sounart pitched an idea that she had when she was at Pixar about a game centered on kids trick-or-treating on Halloween. The prototype game, '' Costume Quest'', was pitched to publishers, and THQ greenlit the game with a $2 million budget. Tasha Sounart has a webcomic called '' Tasha's Comic'', which was created as part of '' Double Fine Comics''. During the production of ''Brütal Legend'', Double Fine's webmaster, Klint Honeychurch, created a flash game based on ''Tasha's Comic'', called '' Tasha's Game'' with artwork and animation by Sounart. On September 9, 2011 she posted her last comic on Double Fine's website and moved her comic to her personal blog because she had left Double Fine to rejoin Pixar as their lead franchise artist. On December 19, 2012, Tasha Sounart announced that she was expecting her first child. She gave birth to a son named Colton on July 3, 2013.

Recognition

Tasha Sounart won awards in the categories of art and for "Rising Star" at the Women in Gaming Awards at the 2011

Game Developers Conference The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual conference for video game developers. The event includes an expo, networking events, and awards shows like the Game Developers Choice Award for Game of the Year, Game Developers Choice Awards and ...

. ''Tasha's Game'' was nominated for "Best of Casual Gameplay 2008" in the platform browser games category from Jay is Games. ''Costume Quest'' was awarded the "Best Downloadable Game of the Year" at the 2010

Spike Video Game Awards The Spike Video Game Awards (in short VGAs, known as the VGX for the final show) was an annual award show hosted by American television network Spike from 2003 that recognized the best computer and video games of the year. Produced by '' GameT ...

and "PSN Game of the Year 2010" by PlayStation: The Official Magazine.

Filmography

*1998 ''

'', additional character designer, animator (Pixar) *1999 ''

Toy Story 2 ''Toy Story 2'' is a 1999 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios, and the first sequel to Toy Story. It is the second installment in the Toy Story (franchise), ''Toy Story'' franchise and was directed by J ...

'', additional storyboard artist, animator (Pixar) *2000 '' For the Birds'', animator (Pixar) *2001 '' Monsters, Inc.'', animator (Pixar) *2003 ''

Finding Nemo ''Finding Nemo'' is a 2003 American animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed by Andrew Stanton, co-directed by Lee Unkrich, and produced by Graham Walters, from ...

'', animator (Pixar) *2006 ''

Cars A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are around one billio ...

'', animator (Pixar) *2012 '' Brave'', marketing (Pixar)Linkedi
''Tasha Sounart’s Linkedin Account''
Retrieved 2025-02-05 – via Linkedin. *2013 ''

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 fea ...

'', marketing (Pixar) *2015 '' Inside Out'', marketing (Pixar) *2015 '' The Good Dinosaur'', marketing (Pixar) *2016 ''

Finding Dory ''Finding Dory'' is a 2016 American animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed by Andrew Stanton, co-directed by Angus MacLane, produced by Lindsey Collins, and written b ...

'', theme parks (Pixar) *2017 '' Cars 3'', theme parks (Pixar) *2017 ''

Coco Coco or variants may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film * ''Coco'' (2009 film), a French comedy film * ''Coco'' (2017 film), an American animated fantasy film * '' Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle'' (), a 2020 Japanese anime film ...

'', theme parks (Pixar) *2018 ''

Incredibles 2 ''Incredibles 2'' is a 2018 American animated superhero film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. Written and directed by Brad Bird, it is the sequel to '' The Incredibles'' (2004) and the second full-length instal ...

'', theme parks (Pixar) *2019 ''

Toy Story 4 ''Toy Story 4'' is a 2019 American animated comedy-drama film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It is the fourth installment in Pixar's ''Toy Story'' series and the sequel to ''Toy Story 3'' (2010). It was dire ...

'', theme parks (Pixar) *2020 '' Onward'', theme parks (Pixar) *2020 ''

Soul The soul is the purported Mind–body dualism, immaterial aspect or essence of a Outline of life forms, living being. It is typically believed to be Immortality, immortal and to exist apart from the material world. The three main theories that ...

'', theme parks (Pixar) *2021 ''

Luca Luca or LUCA may refer to: People * Luca (masculine given name), including a list of people * Luca (feminine given name), including a list of people * Luca (surname), including a list of people Places * The ancient name of Lucca, an Etruscan ...

'', theme parks (Pixar) *2022 '' Turning Red'', parks & promo (Pixar) *2022 ''

Lightyear A light-year, alternatively spelled light year (ly or lyr), is a unit of length used to express astronomical distance, astronomical distances and is equal to exactly , which is approximately 9.46 trillion km or 5.88 trillion mi. As defined by t ...

'', parks & promo (Pixar) *2023 ''

Elemental An elemental is a mythic supernatural being that is described in occult and alchemy, alchemical works from around the time of the European Renaissance, and particularly elaborated in the 16th century works of Paracelsus. According to Paracelsu ...

'', theme parks (Pixar)

Games

*2008 '' Tasha's Game'', artist, animator (Double Fine) *2009 '' Brütal Legend'', lead animator (Double Fine) *2010 '' Costume Quest'', project leader (Double Fine) *2011 ''

Iron Brigade The Iron Brigade, also known as The Black Hats, Black Hat Brigade, Iron Brigade of the West, and originally King's Wisconsin Brigade was an infantry brigade in the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. Although it fought ent ...

'', additional animation (Double Fine) *2011 '' Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster'', additional art (Double Fine)

References

External links

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Tasha's Comic
at the personal blog of Tasha Sounart, Tasha's quest log {{DEFAULTSORT:Sounart, Tasha American animators American women animators American webcomic creators American storyboard artists American video game designers American video game directors Double Fine people Living people American women video game designers Year of birth missing (living people)