Mark Andrews (filmmaker)

Mark Elliott Andrews (born September 12, 1968) is an American filmmaker, animator, and storyboard artist. He is best known for directing (alongside Brenda Chapman) the 2012 Pixar feature film Brave. He was the story supervisor for The Incredibles and Ratatouille, directed the short film One Man Band and co-wrote the short films Jack-Jack Attack and One Man Band.

Mark Andrews
Andrews at the 66th British Academy Film Awards
Born	Mark Elliott Andrews (1968-09-12) September 12, 1968 (age 56) Los Angeles County, California, U.S.
Education	Bachelor of Fine Arts (1993)[1]
Alma mater	CalArts
Occupations	Film director screenwriter animator storyboard artist
Years active	1994–present
Employer	Pixar Animation Studios (2000–2018)[2]
Spouse	Patricia Gatz[2][3][4]
Children	4[5]
Relatives	Bryan Andrews (brother)
Awards	Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Brave (2012)

Career

Andrews studied animation at the Character Animation Program at CalArts. After that he was one of five who got a Disney internship, but was fired after three months.^[6] He is also considered to be Brad Bird's "right-hand man".^[who?] Some of his student films have been featured at MOMA'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, Speed Racer, and Robotech.^[7]

He is the father of Maeve Andrews, who voiced Jack-Jack Parr in The Incredibles.^[8] Andrews replaced Brenda Chapman as director of Brave (2012).^[9] Both were credited as directors, and they won the 2013 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.^[10]

On January 13, 2013, it was announced that Andrews was writing and directing another original feature film at Pixar.^[11] Having now directed an animated film, Andrews found the storyboarding phase on Brave to be a frustrating and overly time-consuming process since a 2-D context was being used to convey a 3-D film and it left little room for change later on, which contrasted with his experience on John Carter just before where that film was always being made in the context of the live-action medium and changes could be made in real time.^[12] Andrews pitched to Pixar Presidents Ed Catmull and Jim Morris his idea to make his next film at Pixar using mo-cap instead of storyboards for sketching ideas to be in a 3-D context earlier in the process of making a 3-D film, which was approved.^[12] Andrews ultimately left Pixar in 2018 with the understanding that the studio no longer wanted to make the film, which he described as a "big action-adventure fantasy epic".^[12]

Since leaving Pixar, Andrews has been a vocal proponent of implementing tools such as Unreal Engine to work in 3-D animation in context with significantly fewer financial and creative constraints while producing significantly more content.^[12] Andrews served as director and executive producer of the Netflix original animated series Super Giant Robot Brothers, which was released on August 4, 2022.^[13] The series was made using Unreal Engine developed by Epic Games in collaboration with Reel FX Animation.^[14]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Director	Screenplay	Story Supervisor	Story Artist	Other	Notes
1998	Quest for Camelot	No	No	No	No	Yes	Story Department
1999	The Iron Giant	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Workbook Designer
2001	Osmosis Jones	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Story: Animation Department Heads and Designers
2002	Spider-Man	No	No	No	Yes	No
2004	The Incredibles	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Visual Development, Additional Voices
2006	Cars	No	No	No	Additional	No
2007	Ratatouille	No	No	Yes	No	No
2009	Up	No	No	No	No	Yes	Additional Voices
2010	Toy Story 3	No	No	No	No	Yes	Additional Story
2011	Cars 2	No	No	No	No	Yes	Pixar Senior Creative Team
2012	John Carter	Second Unit	Yes	No	No	No
	Brave	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	Song Lyrics: "Touch the Sky", Pixar Senior Creative Team
2013	Monsters University	No	No	No	No	Yes	Pixar Senior Creative Team
2015	Inside Out	No	No	No	No	Yes
	The Good Dinosaur	No	No	No	No	Yes
2016	Finding Dory	No	No	No	No	Yes
2017	Cars 3	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Coco	No	No	No	No	Yes
2018	Incredibles 2	No	No	No	No	Yes	Story Consultant, Pixar Senior Creative Team

Short films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Story Artist	Executive Producer	Other	Notes
1997	Loose Tooth	No	No	No	No	Yes	Animation Story Developer
2005	Jack-Jack Attack	No	Story	No	No	No
	Mr. Incredible and Pals	No	No	Yes	No	No
	One Man Band	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
2007	Violet	Yes	No	No	No	No
2009	Alma	No	No	No	No	Yes	Consultant
2012	The Legend of Mor'du	No	No	No	Yes	No
2014	Love Hurts	No	No	No	No	Yes	Role: Reese
2020	Circle of Stone	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	[15]

Television

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Executive Producer	Storyboard Artist	Character Models	Song Lyricist	Notes
1996	The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Animation director, storyboard artist on episode: "Escape to Questworld" Models on episodes: "East of Zanzibar" and "Future Rage"
1998-2000	Histeria!	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Storyboarded 11 episodes
2001	The Powerpuff Girls	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Episode: "Nano of the North"
2001-04	Samurai Jack	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Wrote 5 episodes, storyboarded 2 episodes
2003-04	Star Wars: Clone Wars	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Storyboarded 20 episodes
2021	What If...?	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Storyboarded 9 episodes
2022	Super Giant Robot Brothers	Yes	No	Yes	Comic book	No	Yes
	Primal	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Episode: "The Red Mist"
TBA	Kyōryū[16]	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	No	No	Showrunner
	Hawkmaster	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	[17]

Music video

Year	Title	Director	Storyboard Artist	Notes
2021	"The Writing on the Wall"	Creative	Yes	Music video by Iron Maiden

Video games

Year	Title	Animator
1994	Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm	Yes

Other credits

Year	Title	Role
2008	Bolt	Consultant - uncredited[18]
2009	Tracy	Pitchman #1
	Wild Dogs	Special Thanks
2011	Toy Story Toons: Small Fry
2015	Sanjay's Super Team
2016	The Jungle Book	Thanks
2019	Smash and Grab	Brian Larsen's Story Brain Trust
	Float	Story Trust
2021	Nona	Special Thanks