Mark Walsh was an animator and director at Pixar Animation Studios. He began his career at Pixar in August 1997 working on A Bug's Life. He also did storyboard work on Toy Story 2[1]. He also worked on Monsters, Inc. and then became the directing animator of Finding Nemo. He worked a short while on The Incredibles before moving to Ratatouille as supervising animator. Walsh also worked on the DVD and Promo Production for Up and Toy Story 3. Walsh also directed Tom Hanks in recording sessions for a number of Toy Story Toons episodes. Most recently, he directed the short film Partysaurus Rex, where he voiced Drips the Whale. He left Pixar in 2015 and is now a director at Motional Entertainment, working on a VR short film called Gary the Gull[2].
Prior to Pixar, Walsh studied animation at California Institute of Arts (CalArts).
Filmography[]
- A Bug's Life (1998): animator
- Toy Story 2 (1999): animator and story artist
- Monsters, Inc. (2001): character developer
- Finding Nemo (2003): directing animator
- The Incredibles (2004): animator
- Ratatouille (2007): supervising animator
- Presto (2008): animator
- Up (2009): DVD And Promo Production
- Toy Story Toons (2011-2012): director (1 episode), story (1 episode), writer (1 episode), and voice of Drips (1 episode)
Samples of Work[]
- Toy Story 2 - Storyboarded the Al's Toy Barn commercial[1]
- The Incredibles - When Syndrome's Manta Jet crashes onto the Incredibles' house and Dash asks, "Does this mean we have to move again?"[1]