Pete Docter

Nickelodeon Animation Podcast

Nickelodeon

Tv & Film

4.2 • 966 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Pete Docter was just 21 when he joined Pixar and since then he’s been the creative force behind some of the most influential animated films of all time like Inside Out, Up, Wall-E, Monsters Inc., and Toy Story. His films are modern animated classics, with characters and stories that break new ground, thrilling generations of cartoon fans, and that is exactly what we celebrate on the Nickelodeon Animation Podcast. Pete shares with Hector what it was like to be one of the first animators at Pixar, how constraints can elevate storytelling, and he even drops a few hints at what's next for him and the animation wizards of Pixar.

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0:00.0	Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nix Nix Nix Lonia.
0:07.0	From Nickelodeon Studios in Burbank, California, this is the Nickelodeon Animation
0:11.5	Podcast. Hi, I'm your host Hector Navarro.
0:15.0	Welcome to the podcast.
0:16.0	Our guest today is a really, really special one.
0:19.0	He's an Academy and Annie award-winning director, producer, writer, animator, who's known for directing some of
0:25.5	Pixar's best films. Starting at the company at age 21, he was the 10th employee ever hired
0:31.6	the third ever animator and has since become an essential
0:34.9	member of the senior creative team. It is my distinct pleasure to get to
0:39.5	introduce to you guys Mr. Pete Doctor. Thank you so much for joining us from up in Pixar.
0:45.0	This is fantastic.
0:50.0	Thank you so much for joining us from up in Pixar.
0:52.0	This is fantastic.
0:53.5	Yeah, I'm sitting up here in the development building.
0:57.0	I was just up working on whatever it is that I'm working on now.
1:01.0	Which it sounds like you can't say, but I'm going to try my darnest to get something out of you.
1:07.0	Okay.
1:08.0	All right, so when did you become a storyteller?
1:11.0	A lot of times people talk about, oh, story is most important and it definitely is but my venue into this whole
1:16.6	thing was technique I was fascinated by flipbooks the idea that you could have these
1:20.6	little still images and when they are flipped in succession they look like
1:25.4	they're moving they're alive and then you know as you get better you realize oh you can kind of
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