Mark Andrews

Mark Andrews studied at California Institute of the Arts and Santa Ynez Valley Union High School. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is animated film, film production and digital cinematography. Employment is recorded with Pixar. Distinctions recorded are Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program.

• Name — Mark Andrews • Birth Name — Mark Elliott Andrews • Birthplace — Los Angeles County, California, U.S. • Born — 12 September 1968 • Education — CalArts: Bachelor of Fine Arts (1993) • Occupation — * Film director • screenwriter • animator • storyboard artist • Employer — Pixar Animation Studios (2000–2018) • Years Active — 1994–present • Spouse — Patricia Gatz • Children — 4 • Relatives — Bryan Andrews (brother) • Awards — Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Brave (2012)

Andrews studied animation at the Character Animation Program at CalArts. After that he was one of five who got a Disney internship, but was fired after three months. He is also considered to be Brad Bird's "right-hand man". Some of his student films have been featured at MOMA's exhibition Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures. Unlike most other CalArts alumni, he was not a huge fan of Disney films, and claimed he was a bigger fan of anime such as Kimba the White Lion, Speed Racer, and Robotech. He is the father of Maeve Andrews, who voiced Jack-Jack Parr in The Incredibles. Andrews replaced Brenda Chapman as director of Brave (2012). Both were credited as directors, and they won the 2013 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. On January 13, 2013, it was announced that Andrews was writing and directing another original feature film at Pixar. Having now directed an animated film, Andrews found the storyboarding phase on Brave to be a frustrating and overly time-consuming process since a 2-D context was being used to convey a 3-D film and it left little room for change later on. This contrasted with his experience on John Carter just before where that film was always being made in the context of the live-action medium and changes could be made in real time. Andrews pitched to Pixar Presidents Ed Catmull and Jim Morris his idea to make his next film at Pixar using mo-cap instead of storyboards for sketching ideas. Andrews' intention for using mo-cap was to be in a 3-D context earlier in the process of making a 3-D film, which was approved. Andrews ultimately left Pixar in 2018 with the understanding that the studio no longer wanted to make the film, which he described as a "big action-adventure fantasy epic". Since leaving Pixar, Andrews has been a vocal proponent of implementing tools such as Unreal Engine to work in 3-D animation in context with significantly fewer financial and creative constraints while producing significantly more content. Andrews served as director and executive producer of the Netflix original animated series Super Giant Robot Brothers, which was released on August 4, 2022. The series was made using Unreal Engine developed by Epic Games in collaboration with Reel FX Animation. In October 2021, it was announced that Andrews was attached to write and executive-produce an animated fantasy drama for Fox Entertainment and Bento Box Entertainment titled Hawkmaster. In July 2024, Andrews was also attached as the showrunner of a "post-apocalyptic samurai dinosaur" series for animation and VFX studio Floating Rock titled Kyōryū. By July 2026, Andrews signed on as supervising director and co-showrunner on John Carter, Warlord of Mars, an animated series adaptation of John Carter. He previously wrote the screenplay for the live-action John Carter film.

• Year — Title — Director — Writer — Executive Producer — Storyboard Artist — Character Models — Song Lyricist — Notes • 1996 — The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest — Animation director, storyboard artist on episode: "Escape to Questworld" Models on episodes: "East of Zanzibar" and "Future Rage" • 1998–2000 — Histeria! — Storyboarded 11 episodes • 2001 — The Powerpuff Girls — Episode: "Nano of the North" • 2001–04 — Samurai Jack — Wrote 5 episodes, storyboarded 2 episodes • 2003–04 — Star Wars: Clone Wars — Storyboarded 20 episodes • 2021 — What If...? — Storyboarded 9 episodes • 2022 — Super Giant Robot Brothers — Comic book • 2022–26 — Primal — Episodes: "The Red Mist", "Feast of Flesh", and "Cavern of Horrors"

• Year — Title — Director — Storyboard Artist — Notes • 2021 — "The Writing on the Wall" — Creative — Music video by Iron Maiden

• Year — Title — Animator • 1994 — Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm

• Year — Title — Role • 2008 — Bolt — Consultant - uncredited • 2009 — Tracy — Pitchman #1 • Wild Dogs — Special Thanks • 2011 — Toy Story Toons: Small Fry • 2015 — Sanjay's Super Team • 2016 — The Jungle Book — Thanks • 2019 — Smash and Grab — Brian Larsen's Story Brain Trust • Float — Story Trust • 2021 — Nona — Special Thanks

Mark Andrews is recorded as screenwriter, animator, actor, storyboard artist and director.

• Year — Title — Director — Screenplay — Story Supervisor — Story Artist — Other — Notes • 1998 — Quest for Camelot — Story Department • 1999 — The Iron Giant — Workbook Designer • 2001 — Osmosis Jones — Story: Animation Department Heads and Designers • 2002 — Spider-Man • 2004 — The Incredibles — Visual Development, Additional Voices • 2006 — Cars — Additional • 2007 — Ratatouille • 2009 — Up — Additional Voices • 2010 — Toy Story 3 — Additional Story • 2011 — Cars 2 — Pixar Senior Creative Team • 2012 — John Carter — Second Unit • Brave — Song Lyrics: "Touch the Sky", Pixar Senior Creative Team • 2013 — Monsters University — Pixar Senior Creative Team • 2015 — Inside Out • The Good Dinosaur • 2016 — Finding Dory • 2017 — Cars 3 • Coco • 2018 — Incredibles 2 — Story Consultant, Pixar Senior Creative Team

• Year — Title — Director — Writer — Story Artist — Executive Producer — Other — Notes • 1997 — Loose Tooth — Animation Story Developer • 2005 — Jack-Jack Attack — Story • Mr. Incredible and Pals • One Man Band • 2007 — Violet • 2009 — Alma — Consultant • 2012 — The Legend of Mor'du • 2014 — Love Hurts — Role: Reese • 2020 — Circle of Stone