Jeff Pidgeon | |
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| Alma mater | California Institute of the Arts |
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| Years active | 1981–present |
| Employer | Pixar |
| Notable work | Toy Story (1995) Toy Story 2 (1999) Monsters, Inc. (2001) Toy Story 3 (2010) Toy Story 4 (2019) |
| Spouse | Anita Coulter (m. 2005) |
Jeff Pidgeon is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist and voice actor at Pixar.
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.
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]