Doug Sweetland

Doug Sweetland is an American animator and filmmaker. He grew up watching Disney films and classic Saturday morning cartoons. As a child, he drew cartoons for the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts for several years. After graduating high school in 1992, he opted to attend California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and pursue his lifelong love and passion for animation.
In 1994, Sweetland decided to leave school in his final year to join Pixar. His first assignment was as an animator on Toy Story. He continued as animator on A Bug's LifeWALL'E Rolls In to Stores and Toy Story 2. He was nominated for an Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Character Animation for Toy Story 2. Doug continued to build an incredible reputation as one of the best animators in the business. He was awarded back-to-back Annie Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Character Animation for Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo. Doug took on the supervising animator role for Bud Luckey's Oscar-nominated Boundin' short and worked as an animator and storyboard artist on the Oscar-winning The Incredibles. Sweetland followed this up by stepping into the supervising animator role on John Lasseter's Cars.
In 2007, Sweetland pitched a short film about a sympathetic magician who gets "dumped" by his rabbit. This eventually evolved to a more slapstick film (and a throwback to Warner Bros. classic Looney Tunes). Teddy Newton was brought on board to design the characters; it emerged as Sweetland's directorial debut. Presto was very well received by audiences and critics alike when it preceded WALL-E in theaters. It was honored in 2008 with an Academy Award nomination in the Best Animated Short Film category. It was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2008.
On September 24, 2010, it was reported that Sweetland left Pixar and had been hired by Sony Pictures Animation to direct a computer-animated film adaptation of The Familiars novel series."The Familiars" movie gets a director; "The Familiars" movie gets a director that project has been cancelled. Then, in 2013, it was reported Sweetland had moved to the Warner Animation Group to co-direct their upcoming film Storks. In April 2015, Warner Bros. announced that the film, which Sweetland co-directed with Stoller, would be released on September 23, 2016..
==Filmography==
*Toy Story (animator)
*A Bug's Life (animator)
*Toy Story 2 (animator)
*Monsters, Inc. (directing animator)
*Finding Nemo (animator)
*Boundin' (supervising animator)
*The Incredibles (animator, storyboard artist)
*Cars (supervising animator)
*Presto (director, writer, voice of Presto Digiotagione and Alec Azam)
==Roles==
Presto.png|Presto DiGiotagione(Presto)
Alec.png|Alec Azam(Presto)
==References==
Category:Pixar
Category:Animators
Category:Directors
Category:Actors
Category:Males
Category:Voice actors
Category:Annie Award Winner
Category:Annie Award Nominated
Category:American people
Category:Toy Story
Category:A Bug's Life
Category:Monsters, Inc.
Category:Finding Nemo
Category:The Incredibles
Category:Cars
Category:Storyboard artists
Category:People from Pennsylvania
Category:Character Designers
Category:1970s births