Trevor Jimenez
Trevor Jimenez (* 20th century ) is a Canadian animator and director at Pixar . He gained notoriety through the Oscar nomination for his animated short film Weekends .
Life
Jiminez grew up in the 1980s as a child of divorce , spending the week with his mother in Hamilton, Ontario and on the weekends with his father in Toronto . He processed the impressions of the broken family relationship and his childhood fears in the surreal cartoon short film Weekends . The short film was shown at 66 festivals and won various awards.
Trevor Jimenez worked as a story artist for Cinderbiter , Blue Sky Studios , Illumination Entertainment , Disney Feature Animation and currently Pixar. As a student, he made the short film Key Lime Pie , which was shown at various festivals in 2008 (including Annecy , Ottawa and Zagreb ) and won a prize.
A program at Pixar called a co-op enabled him to use the studio resources to create weekends . Twenty-seven animators and artists helped create the film.
Filmography
Source:
| year | title | Credited as | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Key Lime Pie | Director u. a. | Animation short film |
| 2009 | Ice Age 3 - Dawn of the Dinosaurs ( Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ) | Story artist | Animated film by Blue Sky |
| 2011 | Rio | additional story artist | Animated film by Blue Sky |
| 2012 | The Lorax ( Dr. Seuss' The Lorax ) | storyboard artist | Animated film by Illumination |
| 2016 | Zoomania ( Zootopia ) | not listed (storyboard artist) | Animated film from Disney |
| 2016 | Finding Dory ( Finding Dory ) | story artist | Animated film by Pixar |
| 2017 | Weekends | Director u. a. | Animation short film |
| 2017 | Coco - more alive than life! ( Coco ) | story artist | Animated film by Pixar |
| 2018 | Chaos on the Net ( Ralph Breaks the Internet ) | not listed (story artist) | Animated film from Disney |
Awards
The short film Key Lime Pie was named Best Short Film at the Dallas International Film Festival .
The short film Weekends received 22 prizes, including the jury and audience awards for the best short film at the Festival d'Animation Annecy and the award for the best short film at the Warsaw International Film Festival . Weekends was nominated in the Best Animated Short Film category at the 2019 Academy Awards.
Web links
- Trevor Jimenez in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Academy Awards 2019. In: oscars.org. Retrieved January 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Victoria Ahearn: Canadian nominees dominate Oscars' animated short film category. In: The Star. January 22, 2019, accessed January 29, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d Jennifer Wolfe: Within a Dream: Bringing Emotion To Trevor Jimenez's 'Weekends'. In: Animation World Network. November 6, 2018, accessed January 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Trevor Jimenez in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Jennifer Wolfe: WATCH: Trevor Jimenez's Oscar-Shortlisted 'Weekends' Returns Online. In: Animation World Network. December 27, 2018, accessed January 29, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jimenez, Trevor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian animator and director at Pixar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |