Brian McEntee

What do you do to top being Art Director on Beauty and the Beast? You art direct the first Ice Age.

Brian McEntee, layout artist, art director, color stylist and writer, talks about leaving Cal Arts to start an animation career at Disney, riding the cresting wave of feature animation in the early nineties, then moving to Blue Sky Animation to work on the first hit CGI feature from Twentieth Century Fox.

In addition to working on a wide variety of animated features and shorts, Brian is also a novelist. Brian still returns to animation from time to time, but his first love is writing. He has just completed a second novel, “GENeration eXtraTERrestrial“.

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