Cody Lyon

Lots of the King George iterations on #Hoppers were spent trying to keep him innocent and genuine. When he started to lean too schmoozy, it didn’t feel like our boi KG anymore.

This is the only shot of Tom I did in the final film. But I’ll be damned if it’s not my best work.

The first thing I did on #Hoppers was an anim test of Tom the lizard. I was fresh off of Inside Out 2, so it ended up being way over-animated and didn’t fit the Hoppers style or Tom’s personality at all. Whoops!

See #Hoppers in theaters this weekend! I animated these snakes just for you!

My first 10 years at Pixar

One of my biggest career regrets is not being able to spend more time working with the #WinOrLose crew. In my very short time, however, I was finally able to animate a hot dog slapping someone in the face. Stream the first 4 episodes on Disney+ now!

Ultimately we decided it was a bit busy/distracting, so the final version is just a very poor English lipsync. I tried to only use Jaw up/down and a tiny bit of mouth corner left/right.

My first pitch for Lance Slashblade’s lipsync in #InsideOut2 involved getting a Japanese-speaking animator to translate and record Lance’s lines for me. I matched his mouth to the translation so it would look like the actual line was an English dub.

While I’m not a hockey player myself, I was lucky to get lots of guidance from hockey experts at Pixar when inventing Riley’s “thread the needle” move for #InsideOut2. I watched so much hockey that YouTube still recommends Peter Forsberg compilations a year later 🏒