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Douglas Sweetland is an American animator/director, he grew up watching Disney films and classic Saturday morning cartoons. As a child, Doug drew cartoons for the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts for several years. After graduating high school in 1992, Doug opted to attend California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and pursue his life-long love and passion for animation.
In 1994, he decided to leave school in his final year to join Pixar. His first assignment was as an animator on Toy Story. He continued as animator on A Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2. He was nominated for an Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Character Animation for Toy Story 2. Doug continued to build an incredible reputation as one of the best animators in the business. He was awarded back to back ANNIE awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Character Animation for Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo. Doug took on the lead animator role for Bud Luckey’s Oscar-nominated Boundin’ short and worked as an animator and storyboard artist on the Oscar-winning The Incredibles. Sweetland followed this up by stepping into the supervising animator role on John Lasseter’s Cars.
In 2007, Doug 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 to Warner Bros. classic Looney Tunes). Teddy Newton was brought on board to design the characters; it emerged as Sweetland’s directorial debut. Presto was very well received by audiences and critics alike when it preceded WALL-E in theaters. It was honored in 2008 with an Academy Award nomination in the Best Animated Short Film category. It was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2008.
On September 24, 2010, it was reported that Sweetland had been hired by Sony Pictures Animation to direct a computer-animated film The Familiars.
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Doug Sweetland Biography / Wiki
| Name | Doug Sweetland |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Visual Effects |
| Place of Birth | State College, Pennsylvania, Stati Uniti |
| Date of Birth | |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 0 |
| Deathday |
Doug Sweetland Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Presto | Presto DiGiotagione / Alec Azam (voice) | 2008-06-27 | Dignity. Poise. Mystery. We expect nothing less from the great turn-of-the-century magician, Presto. But when Presto neglects to feed his rabbit one t… |
| Windy Day | Other Forest Creatures | 2013-10-26 | A story about a mouse and his hat…. |
| The Pixar Story | Self (archive footage) | 2007-08-28 | A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios – from the success of “Toy Story” and Pixar’s promotion of talented people, to the building of it… |
Doug Sweetland Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Presto | Director | 2008-06-27 | Dignity. Poise. Mystery. We expect nothing less from the great turn-of-the-century magician, Presto. But when Presto neglects to feed his rabbit one t… |
| Storks | Director | 2016-09-22 | Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for a global internet retail giant. Junior, the company’s top delivery s… |
| Pigeon Toady’s Guide to Your New Baby | Director | 2016-12-20 | The scene-stealing brah dispenses some questionable advice on raising babies…. |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Presto | Writer | 2008-06-27 | Dignity. Poise. Mystery. We expect nothing less from the great turn-of-the-century magician, Presto. But when Presto neglects to feed his rabbit one t… |
| Windy Day | Story | 2013-10-26 | A story about a mouse and his hat…. |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Cars | Supervising Animator | 2006-06-08 | Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself u… |
| Monsters, Inc. | Animation Director | 2001-11-01 | James Sullivan and Mike Wazowski are monsters, they earn their living scaring children and are the best in the business… even though they’re more af… |
| Toy Story | Animation | 1995-10-30 | Led by Woody, Andy’s toys live happily in his room until Andy’s birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy’s he… |
| Toy Story 2 | Animation | 1999-10-30 | Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, … |
| A Bug’s Life | Animation | 1998-11-25 | On behalf of “oppressed bugs everywhere,” an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of fre… |
| The Incredibles | Animation | 2004-10-27 | Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbi… |
| Finding Nemo | Animation | 2003-05-30 | Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist’s office aquarium. It’s up to his worrisome … |
Credit: TMDB
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