Jorge (Gutierrez) is brave enough to put himself on the screen and people respond to it. The ‘curious mind’ is easy, but the ‘courage’ to explore it is more difficult. Tod didn’t know what it meant for a long time. “The greatest asset an artist can have is a curious mind and courage to explore it” – Maurice Noble once told him.The director asks him, “What do you think this looks like?” Visual development can influence and guide the story. Tod mostly works on visual development, but also sometimes on the story.Some people in LA were like “… you are throwing your career away, how brave!” … but he just wanted to try different things … Tod went to Thailand and 6 months turned to 12 years and he is still there. With his Mentor Maurice Noble, they were invited to make a short film in Thailand in the end of 90s.He finally said, “I am proud of you” … it took a long time to get there His dad, a rancher, wasn’t really convinced about his career until he was in his 20s and he could make a living out of it.Do all these things, because taking time from art will make you even better artist” “Try to find balance in your life, look at things outside of animation for inspiration – art, music, travel. Currently, Tod is a creative director at large for the Cartoon Saloon studio in Ireland and is busy creating new personal short film projects through his own studio Prodigal Pictures in Thailand. His animation design book, The Noble Approach, Maurice Noble and the Zen of Animation was published by Chronicle Books LLC. Tod is known for his work on Howl (2010), The Secret of Kells (2009) and The Book of Life (2014). Between degrees, Tod apprenticed under the Oscar-winning team of Chuck Jones, and Maurice Noble. At Cal/Arts, Tod fell under the mentorship of legendary animation designer Jules Engel, eventually garnering the “Student Oscar”, and “Annie Award” nomination for his short film, “Al Tudi Tuhak”. Tod received both his BFA and MFA from The California Institute of the Arts (Cal/Arts) under a scholarship from the Walt Disney Co. I met Tod while working at LEGO where he ran a week-long workshop about character design and animation.
He has worked extensively as a director, designer, and art director, helping develop projects for companies all over the world including Walt Disney, Warner Bros., and Nickelodeon. Tod is an animation designer and director originally from Wyoming, United States and currently living in Thailand.
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