New Technologies in Animation (Pixar's Up)

Featuring Special Guest Scott Clark, Supervising Animator, PIXAR Animation Studios

Scott will screen and discuss clips from several of his hit films including the soon to be released Disney/Pixar, Up.

Up is a comedy adventure about 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen, who finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip: an overly optimistic 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell.

Scott will also discuss the animator’s creative and technical process.

Scott Clark joined Pixar Animation Studios in January 1996 as the animation department’s first intern. Shortly after graduating with a degree in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design that same year, he joined Pixar full-time.

Clark’s first assignment was as an animator on A Bugs Life (1998). He also served as an anima- tor on Toy Story 2 (1999), and the Academy Award-winning short and feature films Geri’s Game (1997), Finding Nemo (2003), and The Incredibles (2004). Clark directed the animated presentation of the 2000 Academy-Award nominees for Best Animated Short Film and was a Directing Animator on Monsters Inc (2001). Clark was the Supervising Animator for the Golden Globe-winning feature film Cars (2006) and most recently for Disney/Pixar’s upcoming feature film Up, scheduled for release on May 29, 2009. In addition to his work at Pixar, Clark taught com- puter animation at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco for nearly 10 years, and studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater. Clark was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up outside of Louisville, Kentucky. He has been draw- ing all his life and fell in love with animation when he took his first animation class from the Louisville Art Association in the 7th grade.

Kids 14 and under are free. All other tickets are $10.