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Philip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He has had a career spanning over four decades in both live-action and animation. Bird was born in Montana and grew up in Oregon. He developed an interest in the art of animation early on, and completed his first short subject by age 14. Bird sent the film to Walt Disney Productions, leading to an apprenticeship from the studio's Nine Old Men. He attended the California Institute of the Arts in the late 1970s, and worked for Disney shortly thereafter. In the 1980s, Bird worked in film development with various studios. He co-wrote Batteries Not Included (1987), and developed two episodes of Amazing Stories for Steven Spielberg, including its spin-off (based on a segment written by Bird for the show), the widely panned animated sitcom Family Dog. Afterwards, Bird joined the animated sitcom The Simpsons as creative consultant for eight seasons. He directed the animated film The Iron Giant (1999); though acclaimed, it was a box-office bomb. Bird moved to Pixar where he wrote and directed two successful animated films, The Incredibles (2004) and Ratatouille (2007). They earned Bird two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature wins and Best Original Screenplay nominations. He transitioned to live-action filmmaking with similarly successful Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), he then directed Disney's Tomorrowland (2015). He returned to Pixar to develop Incredibles 2 (2018), which became the second-highest-grossing animated film of all time during its theatrical run, and earned him another nomination for the Academy Award. Bird has a reputation for supervising his projects to a high degree of detail. He advocates for creative freedom and the possibilities of animation, and has criticized its stereotype as children's entertainment, or classification as a genre, rather than an art. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brad Bird, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Brad Bird

Animator
for Animator in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Back in Action
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It's the year 1991 in New York City, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (based on the 1987 TV series) are returning for battle against their arch foe, Shredder, and more of their enemies. Plus, they still have the Turtle Van and the Turtle Blimp, but they also modify a used airplane and call it the Turtle Plane (looks like the Sea Duck from Disney's TaleSpin)! From the creators of Legend of the Three Caballeros (2018). Featuring the voices of Ben Stiller (Night at the Museum), Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), Steve Carell (Despicable Me), David DeLuise (Wizards of Waverly Place), Hugh Laurie (House), Grey DeLisle (What's New Scooby-Doo?), Hynden Walch (Teen Titans), Will Friedle (Kim Possible), Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond), Will Arnett (The Nut Job), Patrick Warburton (The Emperor's New Groove), Hank Azaria (Bartok the Magnificent), Bill Fagerbakke (Gargoyles), Ashley Tisdale (Phineas and Ferb), Eric Bauza (The Adventures of Puss in Boots), Bruce Lanoil (The Adventures of Timmy the Tooth), Alan Tudyk (Astro Boy), Andy Richter (Madagascar), JP Karliak (The Boss Baby), Janice Kawaye (My Life as a Teenage Robot), James Sie (Jackie Chan Adventures), and introducing Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean), and Wally Wingert (The Garfield Show). Share the action, fun, and adventure on this new animated feature film with your family again and again!