industry professional presentation
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DOUG SWEETLAND
Industry Professional Presentation
Francesca Bedford
Thesis:Doug Sweetland is a very
talented animator and director at Pixar.
Life At Pixar:
Doug joined Pixar in 1994, where his first assignment was as an animator on Toy
Story.
Life At Pixar Cont:
After Toy Story, Doug went on to be an animator for A Bug’s Life and then Toy Story 2 (for which he was nominated for
an Annie Award for Outstanding Individual
Achievement for Character Animation).
Life At Pixar Cont:
Doug won back to back Annie Awards for Outstanding
Individual Achievement for Character Animation for
Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo.
Life at Pixar Cont:
Doug was lead animator for Bud Luckey’s Oscar
nominated short Boundin’.
Life At Pixar Cont:
Doug was an storyboard artist and animator on the Oscar
winning movie The Incredibles.
Life At Pixar Cont:
Doug then went on to be the supervising animator for John
Lasseter’s Cars.
Life At Pixar Cont:
Afterwards, Doug went on to pitch an animated short in 2007 about a sympathetic
magician who is dumped by his rabbit. This eventually became Presto (which, in
2008, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Animated Short Film).
Filmography:Toy Story (1995) (animator)
A Bug’s Life (1998) (animator)
Toy Story 2 (1999) (animator)
Monsters, Inc. (2001) (directing animator)
Finding Nemo (2003) (animator)
Boundin’ (2003) (lead animator)
The Incredibles (2004) (animator, storyboard artist)
Cars (2006) (supervising animator)
Presto (2008) (director, writer)
Currently:
It was reported in 2010 the Sweetland had been hired by Sony Pictures Animation to
direct The Familiars (release date in 2014).
Currently Cont:
It was reported in January of 2013 that Warner Bros. is developing an animated
feature called Storks (release date for 2015) which
Sweetland is set to direct.
Even with this report, Sony said that The Familiars is still
on.
Media Citations
http://www.pixartalk.com/pixarians/doug-sweetland/
http://www.animationfestival.ca/archives/2008/index.php?option=com_oiaf&task=showspeakers
http://www.pixarplace.com/links/
http://splinedoctors.com/2008/08/doug-sweetland-part-2/
http://snymed.blogspot.com/2013/02/free-disney-junior-preview-contest.html
http://www.hollywood.com/news/movies/7184465/our-q-a-toy-story-3-director-lee-unkrich?page=all
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/toy_story_2/
http://www.disneystore.com/a-bug-s-life/mn/1011004/
http://guecoaction.blogspot.com/2010/06/childrens-environmental-movies.html
http://www.disneystore.com/finding-nemo/mn/1000020/
Media Citations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundin’
http://www.listal.com/viewimage/1649185
http://pixartimes.com/dvd-easter-eggs/the-incredibles/
http://www.ruggedelegantliving.com/amazon/a/003446.html
http://www.impawards.com/2006/cars.html
http://olivias5050.blogspot.com/2012/03/cars.html
http://splinedoctors.com/2008/07/doug-sweetland-spline-cast-part-1/
http://www.tildee.com/show.php?key=H2tRfh
http://www.hollywood.com/photos/misc/7287022/doug-sweetland
http://www.animationmagazine.net/features/tartakovsky-signs-overall-deal-with-sony-animation/
http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/warner-bros-unveils-animation-think-tank-featuring-teams-behind-cats-dogs-and-muppets-71726