Jan Pinkava
January Jaroslav Pijia ( born June 21, 1963 in Prague) is a British- Czech animator, director and screenwriter. For his animated short film Geri 's Game, he won an Oscar.
Life
Pijia was born in 1963 as the third of four children in Prague. His father was the writer Václav Pinkava, who became known under the pseudonym January Křesadlo. After the invasion of the Warsaw Pact in 1968, the family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to England. Pijia went from 1974 to 1982 in Colchester to school. He became interested in early music, theater and sculpture, as one of his sculptures is on display at the library of the University of Essex. After he got his first video camera Christmas 1975, he experimented with various film and animation techniques. He soon won first prize in a film competition, so around 1980 screen with the animated short film The Rainbow the Young Film Maker's Competition of the Year Award in the BBC series test, a quiz show for children. 2001, his film was once again recognized in the program 's 100 Greatest Kids' TV shows as the most professional contribution in the 15- year history of Screen Test. In the film Son of Rambow from 2007 Pinkavas short film is also shown.
Pijia studied computer science at Aberystwyth University in Wales and graduated with a doctorate. After that he worked in the field of computer animation in a London company that had specialized in TV commercials.
1993 moved Pijia to the U.S. and began working in the Pixar Animation Studios. In 1994 he won the Clio Award for his first commercial for the brand Listerine. In the short film Geri 's Game of 1997 Pijia wrote the screenplay and has directed. The film won the 1998 Academy Award in the category of Best Animated Short Film.
During the Ottawa International Animation Festival 1998, the film was shot in just two days 67 aluminum plates, in which Pijia also directed. In the next few years he worked as an animator on various Pixar films such as A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc. with.
In 2000 he started as a director working on Ratatouille. He was replaced by Brad Bird, the director of the animated film The Incredibles 2005 - The Incredibles replaced. At this time Pijia had already developed the core story, and the characters and sets, therefore he is called in the finished film as co- director and as an author of the original story. Pijia soon left Pixar; in interviews he would not comment on the reasons for the separation. The film Ratatouille, which finally appeared in 2007, won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, the LAFCA award, the BFCA Award and Best of the Annie Award in the category of animated film. There were also four other Oscar nominations, including the nomination Pinkavas together with Brad Bird and Jim Capobianco in the category of Best Original Screenplay.
Today Pijia worked for the animation studio Laika Inc.