Mark Elliott Andrews (born September 12, 1968) is an American film director, screenwriter, animator, he is best known for the 2012
Pixar
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feature film ''
Brave''. He was the story supervisor for ''
The Incredibles
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'', directed the short film ''
One Man Band
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'' and co-wrote the short films ''
Jack-Jack Attack
''Jack-Jack Attack '' is a 2005 American computer animated short film produced by Pixar and written and directed by Brad Bird. The short film is a spin-off on his 2004 film ''The Incredibles''.
Unlike many of their previous shorts, it was not g ...
'' and ''One Man Band''.
Andrews studied animation at the Character Animation Program at
CalArts
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. After that he was one of five who got a Disney internship, but was fired after three months. He is also considered to be
Brad Bird
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Bird was born in Montana and grew up i ...
's "right-hand man". Some of his student films have been featured at
MOMA
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's exhibition ''TOMORROWLAND: CalArts in Moving Pictures''. Unlike most other CalArts alumni, he was not a huge fan of Disney films, and claimed he was a bigger fan of anime such as ''
Kimba the White Lion
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'', ''
Speed Racer
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'', and ''
Robotech
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''.
He is the father of Maeve Andrews, who voiced
Jack-Jack Parr
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in ''
The Incredibles
''The Incredibles'' is a 2004 American computer-animated superhero film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Written and directed by Brad Bird, it stars the voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah V ...
''. Andrews replaced
Brenda Chapman
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as director of ''
Brave'' (2012). Both were credited as directors, and they won the
2013
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Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
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.
On January 15, 2013, it was announced that Andrews was writing and directing another feature film at Pixar. Andrews left Pixar in 2019 and his new project was eventually scrapped.
In June 2021,
Netflix
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announced that Andrews will serve as director of the original animated series ''
Super Giant Robot Brothers
''Super Giant Robot Brothers'' is an animated action-adventure comedy streaming television series created by Víctor Maldonado and Alfredo Torres for Netflix. It was released on August 4, 2022.
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'', which premiered on August 4, 2022.
Filmography
Feature Films
Short films
Other credits
Television
Video Games
References
External links
*
Mark Andrews's blog*
ttp://flipanimation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/brave-comes-to-london.html Mark Andrews at FLIP Animation MagazineRetrieved December 2012
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1968 births
Living people
21st-century American screenwriters
American storyboard artists
Animators from California
Animation screenwriters
Annie Award winners
California Institute of the Arts alumni
Pixar people
American animated film directors
American male screenwriters
Primetime Emmy Award winners
Directors of Best Animated Feature Academy Award winners
21st-century American male writers