Geefwee Boedoe, sometimes credited as Gee Fwee Boedoe, is an American animator and illustrator.

Career

Geefwee Boedoe first worked as an animator for

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and

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, collaborating on movies like '' Monsters, Inc.'', where he did the main title design, '' Finding Nemo'', ''

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'' and ''

Beauty and the Beast ''Beauty and the Beast'' (french: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in ''La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins'' (''The Young American and Marine ...

''. He is sometimes credited as Gee Fwee Boedoe. Some of his work was shown in a travelling Pixar exposition, and in the book "The Art of ''Finding Nemo''". He wrote and illustrated his first book, ''Arrowville'', published by Laura Geringer and

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, in 2004. It is a book for 4- to 8-year-olds in the vein of ''

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'', and won the 2004

Reuben Award The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States. It presents the National Cartoonists Society Awards. The Society was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the ...

for Book Illustration from the National Cartoonists Society. His animated short film '' Let's Pollute'' was nominated for an

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(Oscar) for an Oscar for the Best Short Film, Animated category.

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* * Living people American illustrators American animators American animated film directors Pixar people Place of birth missing (living people) Walt Disney Animation Studios people Film and television title designers Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-animator-stub