Brad Bird

Brad Bird was born in 1957 in Kalispell, Montana, the youngest of four children. He visited the Disney studios at eleven and met the great animators of the company, whom he said he wanted to join; at fourteen, he completed an animated film that he sent to them, and one of them, Milt Kahl, became his mentor. A Disney scholarship took him to the California Institute of the Arts, where his classmate was John Lasseter. Having become an animator at Disney, he was dismissed for criticising the management, then worked for television, and joined Pixar in 2000.

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• CinemaThe Iron GiantBrad Bird · 1999Cinema