Several outlets are reporting that Pixar has revealed Dan Scanlon as the director of Monsters University. The confirmation came during this week's Cars 2 bloggers' event at Pixar, which I unfortunately wasn't able to attend.
Scanlon (@MrDanScanlon on Twitter) is a former Disney and DreamWorks animator. Having joined Pixar in the mid-2000s, he did storyboards and provided screenplay material for Cars and co-directed the feature-based short Mater and the Ghostlight.
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Always good to have new feature directors!
Countdown to see if he's removed from the project and replaced.
If not, we'll have our first fresh director in a long time!
Hmmm... Dreamworks? That can't be good Hehehe Let's hope these 11 years working at Pixar have made him less Dreamworks-ish.
[Please don't attack me by saying how awesome HTTYD was, I also think it was].
Where people animate for is where people animate for - you can't deny that DreamWorks has a good set of animators talent-wise, no matter what you think of the upper level management.
Not arguing - just saying. I wish him the best at Pixar.
get your facts straight, Scanlon did not work for dreamworks, he worked for a small studio called character builders doing story work for disney sequels before joining pixar
Thanks for that detail. Corrected.
@ Alexandro. Dreamworks Animation's team actually admire Pixar and its movies, and they never have thought of a rivalry between them as many say.
I love the dark ambiance of those concept arts, they are surely saying that the movie will be gritty and give a real magic to these fantasy movies.
I knew some of you were going to disagree with me. Oh well, let's answer:
@Anonymous #1: I don't get your philosophical sentence.. ): But you're right, they have good animators.
@Anonymous #3: I never said any Pixar employee looked down on any Dreamworks employee. I just said that, since he's worked at Dreamworks -and most of Dreamworks movies are lousy- I just hope he doesn't bring that 'lousiness' to the studio, which i doubt, since he was only an animator [and they're talented, aren't they, Anonymous #1?]. But now it turns out he didn't even work at Dreamworks, as Anonymous #2 pointed out. So this whole conversation is pointless.
Oh! And btw, This post is about Monsters University, not about Brave. :D
News Flash:
4/14/12
Pete Doctor has been added to "Monsters University" as a last second co-director.
Shut up Metroid man!
*sigh* And where did you get this information Metroid Man?
Eagerly awaiting no reply... -.-
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