Angus MacLane
Angus MacLane (born April 13, 1975) is an American film director, animator, screenwriter, and voice actor currently working at Pixar. He directed short films "BURN-E", "Toy Story Toons: Small Fry", and the television special "Toy Story of Terror!" He co-directed the film "Finding Dory" (2016). He is also a LEGO enthusiast and created the CubeDudes building format and designed a LEGO WALL-E that has become an official set from the LEGO Group. He will make his feature film directorial debut with the "Toy Story" spinoff film, "Lightyear", in June 2022. Early life and career. Angus  MacLane grew up in Portland, Oregon. He originally wanted to be a comic book artist but halfway through school switched to animation and hoped one day he could work at the Will Vinton Studios (now Laika) and would eventually go on to work for the studio before working for Pixar. In 1997, he received a bachelor of fine arts from Rhode Island School of Design. MacLane joined Pixar in 1997, starting as an animator on "Geri's Game". He worked as an animator on every Pixar feature film from "A Bug's Life" through "Toy Story 3". He also worked  in the character development on "Monsters, Inc." and "The Incredibles". His work on "The Incredibles" gained him an Annie for Outstanding Achievement in Character Animation. After serving as Supervising Animator on "One Man Band", MacLane started working on the story team for Andrew Stanton's "WALL-E" and later moved up to Directing Animator. After animating a small scene for a side character named BURN-E, MacLane wanted to know what might happen to the character. He originally wanted BURN-E's story arc part of the actual film, but Stanton ended up wanting him to develop it into a  short which eventually became "BURN-E", which can now be viewed on the DVD and Blu-ray releases of "WALL-E". For a short amount of time, he worked on the animation for "Up", and the animation on "Toy Story 3". After "BURN-E", MacLane started to move further to directing and writing works in the studio with the "Toy Story Toon:" "Small Fry" and Pixar's first TV special "Toy Story of Terror!", for which he won an Annie for Outstanding Achievement in Directing in an Animated TV/Broadcast Production. MacLane co-directed Pixar's 2016 film "Finding Dory