At 32, he represents the next wave: the studio’s artists who are young enough to have been profoundly influenced by Pixar’s pioneering first feature film - 1995’s “Toy Story” - while still in school. After his “fantastic” residential internship, he would return to work on “Cars” for years, then lend his shading artistry to such films as “Ratatouille.” Now, not a decade later, he is one of two character supervisors on this summer’s “Cars 2,” which has just topped $200-million at the global box office. “Pixar comes in and plucks you up and plugs you right into a film,” says animator Bob Moyer, who was a graduate student at Texas A&M when he interned on the 2006 film “Cars.” “No making copies or fetching coffee for anybody. Your mission: Help turn fantasy into digital reality all while you adjust to the most surreal of realizations - you belong. You are in your early 20s and you have arrived, here, in the belly of the “Monsters” beast. You are working on characters that will come alive and become ubiquitous and generate more than a half-billion dollars in box office and counting.
You are listening to tips from artists who have largely birthed and defined your very industry. The next month, you’re sitting next to animation demigod John Lasseter on Emeryville, Calif., acreage that is also called a “campus” but in truth is a whole other playing field. One month you’re sitting in class as a Visualization Sciences student in College Station, Texas, trying to master the finer points of 3-D painting and shading. THIS IS HOW Pixar 2.0: The Next Generation works. "CARS 2" character designer Bob Moyer is part of Pixar’s next wave of leaders.
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