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Keeping Tabs on His Inner Child with ‘Inside Out’ Animator @donshank
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“I always liked to draw cartoons, but I also always wanted to make movies,” Oakland, California, art director Don Shank (@donshank) says. “When I was about 8 years old, I was watching Bugs Bunny cartoons and it dawned on me: I didn’t have to choose. I could do both!” Today, Don works at Pixar, the American computer animation studio responsible for the Golden Globe-nominated film, Inside Out. He’s drawn to Parisian artists from the turn of the 20th century, but Don also finds inspiration and enthusiasm from his two daughters, Chloe and Phoebe. “Every day that I drop my youngest off at preschool we sit and draw a few pages together. It’s the best,” Don says. “Children have such a lack of preconception when they make art that it always seems so raw and free and fun.”
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