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5 Successful Traits of an Animator – Andrew Gordon Pixar Animator

5 Successful Traits of an Animator – Andrew Gordon Pixar Animator

Andrew Gordon has been animating characters professionally for  15 years. He joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1997 where he has been an animator on A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and Ratatouille.  The characters he has worked on include Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Gill, from Finding Nemo and Edna Mode, the costume designer in “The Incredibles” and Linguini from Ratatouille. He recently finished Supervising Animation on Pixar’s Academy Award nominated short film “Presto” and is in production on Toy Story 3. He is also involved with the Pixar  Animation Internship.

Mr. Gordon studied animation in Vancouver, New York and New Jersey, and prior to his work at Pixar, he worked in the Looney Tunes division of Warner Brothers. He was awarded “Outstanding Character Animation in an Animated Motion Picture” by the Visual Effects Society for his work in Finding Nemo.

He has been passionate about teaching animation for over 10 years. He has taught animation intensives throughout the world. Andrew is a contributing lecturer at Animation Mentor, CSU Summer Arts and VanArts. He is one of the founders of Spline Doctors (www.splinedoctors.com), a blog/podcast dedicated to animation education. He is currently helping develop and teach at the new animation program at California College of Art in Oakland (CCA).

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