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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 Christmas Special: Deck the Shells
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It's the night before Christmas with the Ninja Turtles (based on the 1987 TV series). The Turtles, along with their sensei Splinter and the 5th Turtle Zach, spend the holidays in April's apartment. After April reads A Visit From St. Nicholas (novel by Clement C. Moore) and everybody goes to bed in order for Santa Claus to show up, Raphael realizes Zach dropped his letter to Santa on the floor and it didn't get mailed to him and informs the other Turtles the situation. Now the Turtles go out in New York to search for old St. Nick and deliver Zach's letter before it's too late, otherwise Zach will be heartbroken. Meanwhile, Shredder plots to kidnap Santa and settle the score with him because when he was little, every Christmas in Japan, Santa never gave him any presents he asked for, and instead of presents, he gave him a stocking full of coal. That's because Shredder was on his naughty list because of his evil deeds. Now the Turtles must rescue Santa and give him Zach's letter so he can read it. From the creators of Legend of the Three Caballeros (2018). Voices by Ben Stiller, Tom Kenny, Steve Carell, David DeLuise, Hugh Laurie, Grey DeLisle, Hynden Walch, Ashley Tisdale, Johnny Depp, Wally Wingert, Eric Bauza, Bruce Lanoil, and Stephen J. Anderson.
