ANDY EREKSON is a story artist, director, writer, and illustrator living in Los Angeles, California. After graduating from BYU in Provo, Utah, with a BFA in illustration, he worked at LAIKA Entertainment in Portland, Oregon as a visual development artist on Jack and Ben and a short called The Mouse That Soared. In 2009 he moved with his family to Los Angeles to work as a story artist at Sony Pictures Animation where he worked on Hotel Transylvania, Smurfs, Smurfs 2, and The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol. After three years at Sony, he started at Dreamworks Animation where he has worked in both television and on feature animated films such as Captain Underpants, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Abominable, Trollhunters, Kung Fu Panda 4, The Wild Robot, and was head of story on The Boss Baby: Family Business. He also wrote and directed the animated shorts Marooned and Precious Templeton: A Pony Tale. After eleven plus years at DreamWorks, he took a new position as a story artist at Warner Bros. Pictures Animation where he is working on Margie Claus. When he's not making the pictures, Andy enjoys spending time with his family, playing guitar, grilling, watching movies, and vacuuming his car.
Andy Erekson
Co-Director
for Co-Director in DreamWorks's The Crash Bandicoot Movie
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The story begins with a N. Sane evil scientist named Dr. Neo Cortex, who, with the help of his assistant Dr. Nitrus Brio, experiments on animals to assemble a massive army tasked with collecting as many gems and crystals charged with enough energy to power the immense and devastating mecha robot built by his co-assistant Dr. N. Gin, and thus finally complete his plan for world domination. However, something goes wrong with his latest experiment, Crash, which causes him to end up far from the villain's lair and on to Wumpa Island, where he meets Aku Aku, an ancient spirit of the island reincarnated in a mystical Tiki mask who acts as a protective guide to those around him. Along the way, they meet Coco, a sweet teenager who is actually Crash's younger sister by blood. She needs their help to save her friends: Tawna, Isabella, Liz, Megumi and Ami, who are still held captive by Cortex. Thus, our marsupial heroes join together in this adventure, despite their protective mask being the main target of the mutant army led by the mobster Pinstripe Potoroo, which Cortex needs to complete his aforementioned weapon, so they must be prepared for any obstacle, such as Pinstripe's loyal henchmen: Koala Kong and the Komodo Bros., and a trio of not-so-loyal bounty hunters formed by Tiny Tiger, Dingodile, and Ripper Roo.
