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Teddy Newton is an American animator, director, and voice actor who works at Pixar Animation Studios. He is known for his work on The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and Day & Night, among others.
Teddy Newton is a versatile artist who has worked on various Pixar and Disney projects as an actor, animator, director, and more. He was born in 1964 in Encino, California, and has been nominated for an Oscar for his short film Presto.
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Theodore "Teddy" Newton is an American screenwriter, director, animator, storyboard artist, producer, and voice actor, who joined Pixar in 2002 to work on The Incredibles.
Newton was born in Encino, CA, but grew up in Dana Point, along the California coastline. He was inspired by the drawings of Al Hirschfeld and early Warner Bros. animation. Newton dropped out of CalArts in the early 90s and spent some time at Disney doing story sketch work on Pocahontas, Fantasia 2000, Runaway Brain, Mulan, and Hercules. Newton opted to leave Disney to pursue more creative opportunities.
Newton conceived the characters for DreamWorks Interactive's Cooper McQ Breaks Thru. Other early works include writing and storyboarding an entire episode of Dexter's Lab and doing inspirational boards and story development for The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales.
Newton formed a partnership with composer Michael Giacchino to make animated films, but they didn't have the capital to see it through. He then moved on to Warner Bros. Feature Animation and he partnered with Brad Bird on developing the story and characters for The Iron Giant.
He co-wrote and produced the live action feature, The Trouble with Lou, which was screened at the Slamdance Festival in 2001. This was followed by the animated (and very adult) Boys Night Out, which Newton wrote, co-directed, and handled the art direction. It paid off as Boys Night Out received an Annie Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Short Subject.
In 2002, he joined Pixar and became the character designer for The Incredibles. Here's what he said, as part of the production notes, about creating these now iconic characters, "Brad would simply describe the characters to me-he wouldn't use too many adjectives, but he would often do an impression or a voice for them. Sometimes the voice alone would put enough pictures and ideas in my head. It's like when you listen to the radio and you start to imagine what the person would look like. You get inspired and everything starts to take shape."
•Monsters, Inc. (2001): CDA
•The Incredibles (2004): Character design, end titles, voice of the man who calls Mr. Incredible in the teaser trailer, and Newsreel Narrator
•Cars (2006): Visual development, additional voices
•Ratatouille (2007): Voice of Talon Labarthe
•WALL-E (2008): Production artist, voice of SECUR-T
•Up (2009): Development artists, voice of man on TV
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Teddy Newton is an American animator, director, and voice actor who worked on several Pixar films, including The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and WALL-E. He also created the short Day & Night and directed an untitled project for Paramount Animation.
Teddy Newton is a character designer, director and voice actor who has worked on several Pixar films since 2002. He is known for creating the characters and gags for The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Up and Day & Night, among others.
Pixar Director Teddy Newton shares original sketches and thoughts about creating the picture book based on his short film, Day & Night.Save 25% and get free ...
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Teddy Newton is a Pixar Animation Studios artist who has worked on films such as The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Wall-E and Toy Story 3. He also directed the short film Day & Night and voiced various characters in Pixar and other animated projects.
Teddy Newton was born on March 3, 1964 in Encino, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Incredibles (2004), Toy Story 3 (2010) and WALL·E (2008).
