Dan Scanlon
Dan Scanlon
Dan Scanlonis an American storyboard artist and director, working for Pixar...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth21 June 1976
CountryUnited States of America
pixar represents special starting
The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
dealing dealt failures life movies rarely telling wants
The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
pixar
I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
create creating emotion fall love original sequel tracking trying whether
Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.
animator
I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.
falling-in-love fall character
There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.
real moving fall
There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.
moving scary wrapping-up
The scary thing is that sometimes you are wrapping up animation on a sequence and you don't know how the movie ends or begins. You just have to bluff and move forward.
people want stuff
I like sharing stuff with people. I feel like it's kind of at their own discretion, you can see too much if you want to see too much.