Doug Sweetland | |
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| Employer | Pixar Animation Studios (1994–-2010) |
Doug Sweetland is an American animator and filmmaker. He wrote and directed thePixar short filmPresto (2008), which was nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Animated Short Film.[2]
In 1994, Sweetland joinedPixar. His first assignment was as an animator onToy Story. He continued as animator onA Bug's Life,[3] andToy Story 2. He was nominated for an Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Character Animation for the film.
Sweetland was awarded Annie Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Character Animation forMonsters, Inc. andFinding Nemo.[2] He was supervising animator onBud Luckey'sBoundin'[4] and worked as an animator and storyboard artist onThe Incredibles. Sweetland followed this being supervising animator onJohn Lasseter'sCars.[3]
In 2007, Sweetland pitched a short film about a sympathetic magician who gets "dumped" by his rabbit. This eventually evolved to a more slapstick film (and a throwback toWarner Bros. classicLooney Tunes).Teddy Newton was brought on board to design the characters; it emerged as Sweetland's directorial debut,Presto, which precededWALL-E in theaters.[2] It was nominated in 2008 for theAcademy Award for Best Animated Short Film. It was included in theAnimation Show of Shows in 2008. After finishingPresto, Sweetland left Pixar in 2009.
On September 24, 2010, it was reported that Sweetland had been hired bySony Pictures Animation to direct an animated film adaptation ofThe Familiars novel series;[3] that project has been cancelled. In January 2013, Warner Bros. developed the animated feature filmStorks under their newly createdWarner Animation Group banner, conceived and written byNicholas Stoller and directed by Sweetland.[5] In April 2015, Warner Bros. announced that the film, which Sweetland co-directed with Stoller, would be released on September 23, 2016.[6]
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