Jill Culton
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Born | Jillian Marie Culton March 19, 1973 Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. |
Alma mater | California Institute of the Arts |
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Years active | 1993–present |
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Notable work | Open Season |
Jillian Marie Culton (born March 19, 1973) is an American animator, director, and screenwriter. With her directorial debut on Sony's first animated film, Open Season, she became the first female principal director of a big budget, computer-animated feature.[1]
Education and career
Previously, she studied at the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts, where she later taught animation.
She was also a storyboard artist for various Pixar films such as Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bug's Life and also co-wrote the original treatment for Monsters, Inc., and continued to become the Head of Development.
She animated on Toy Story and served as a Directing Animator at Turner Features for the film Cats Don't Dance.
Along with Anthony Stacchi, she helped to develop Curious George while working at Industrial Light & Magic.[2][3]
In 2003, Culton joined Sony Pictures Animation, which launched a year before to produce CG animated films.[4] During her years at Sony, Culton, along with directing Open Season and executive producing Open Season 2, also developed Hotel Transylvania.
As of 2010, Culton was at DreamWorks Animation.[5] For some time, she was writing and directing an animated film (now titled Abominable) about a little girl and a Yeti, tentatively titled Everest,[6][7] but by 2016, she had left the project.[8] However, she came back to the project to direct again.[9]
Filmography
- The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) (animator: Calvert/Cobbler Productions)
- Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993) (storyboard designer - uncredited)
- Toy Story (1995) (story artist)
- How the Toys Saved Christmas (1996) (story artist)
- Cats Don't Dance (1997) (supervising animator: Supporting Animal Characters, storyboard artist)
- A Bug's Life (1998) (additional storyboard artist)
- Toy Story 2 (1999) (character designer: new characters, story artist)
- Shrek (2001) (story artist)
- Monsters, Inc. (2001) (story, development story supervisor, visual development)
- Finding Nemo (2003) (additional storyboard artist)
- The Incredibles (2004) (story artist)
- Chicken Little (2005) (story artist)
- Cars (2006) (story artist)
- Open Season (2006) (director, story)
- Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run (2006) (director, writer)
- Surf's Up (2007) (special thanks)
- Ratatouille (2007) (additional storyboard artist)
- The Simpsons Movie (2007) (story artist)
- WALL-E (2008) (story artist)
- Open Season 2 (2009) (executive producer)
- Up (2009) (additional storyboard artist)
- Shrek Forever After (2010) (special thanks, character designer: new characters, story artist)
- Toy Story 3 (2010) (story artist)
- Cars 2 (2011) (story artist)
- Brave (2012) (additional storyboard artist)
- Monsters University (2013) (story artist)
- Inside Out (2015) (story artist)
- The Good Dinosaur (2015) (additional storyboard artist)
- Open Season: Scared Silly (2016) (based on original characters created by)
- Abominable (2019) (director, writer)
References
- ^ Stein, Ruthe (September 27, 2006). "DATE LINES / News, notes and updates from the Bay Area arts and culture scene compiled by Chronicle staff writers and critics". SFGate. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
- ^ Harris, Dana (May 8, 2003). "Sony tooning new animation unit". Variety. Retrieved July 31, 2014.
- ^ Eller, Claudia (May 12, 2003). "Lucas Starts Animation Division". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 31, 2014.
Later, Universal -- concerned about a budget that topped $100 million -- scrapped plans to enlist ILM in making a computer-animated adaptation of the children's classic "Curious George."
- ^ Wolfe, Jennifer (July 10, 2014). "Emails, Court Docs Show Sony Resisted Wage-Fixing Cartel". Animation World Network. Retrieved July 31, 2014.
- ^ "Two in One Interview: NY Illustrators – Character Designers". CTN Animation Expo. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
- ^ Gachman, Dina (March 21, 2013). "Bringing 'The Croods' to Life: A Spotlight Interview with Producers Kristine Belson and Jane Hartwell". Studio System News. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2013.
We have a project tentatively titled Everest, but that's a temp title. It's about a little girl and a Yeti, and the writer-director is Jill Culton.
- ^ Milligan, Mercedes (March 26, 2014). "DreamWorks Adopts FLIX for Story Development". Animation Magazine. Retrieved March 27, 2014.
Culton, who made her directorial debut with Sony's Open Season, is currently writing and directing a film about a young girl and a Yeti for DWA with the working title Everest.
- ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (December 5, 2016). "'How To Train Your Dragon 3' Flies To 2019; Uni's DWA To Scale 'Everest'". Deadline. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
- ^ Frater, Patrick (February 2, 2018). "CMC Takes Over Universal's Stake in Oriental DreamWorks".
External links
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- Jill Culton at IMDb