Jeff Pidgeon

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Jeff Pidgeon
Alma mater California Institute of the Arts
Occupations
  • Animator
  • screenwriter
  • storyboard artist
  • voice actor
Years active1981–present
Notable work Monsters, Inc.
Cars
WALL-E
Inside Out (2015 film)
Spouse
Anita Coulter
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(m. 2005)​

Jeff Pidgeon is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist and voice actor at Pixar.

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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. [1] [2] He also provided the voice for the "Aliens" in the Toy Story films and the Toy Story Toons short, Hawaiian Vacation . [3]

He is the designer of Hamton J. Pig in Tiny Toon Adventures .[ citation needed ]

Pidgeon has also manufactured his own toys. [4]

Filmography

Production work

Voice acting

References

  1. ↑ "pixartalk.com". www.pixartalk.com. January 25, 2010. Archived from the original on November 17, 2011. Retrieved September 24, 2023.
  2. 1 2 Beck, Jerry (2005). The Animation Movie Guide. Beck. ISBN   9780786486946.
  3. 1 2 Santas, Constantine (2014). The Encyclopedia of Epic Films. Santas. ISBN   9780786486946.
  4. ↑ Flaherty, Joe. "How One Pixar Animator Manufactures His Own Toys". Wired.
  5. 1 2 3 "Jeff Pidgeon - 19 Character Images". Behind The Voice Actors.


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