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Kyle Balda (born March 9, 1971) is an American animator and film director, best known for co-directing the Illumination films The Lorax (2012), with Chris Renaud; Minions (2015) and Despicable Me 3 (2017), with Pierre Coffin; and Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022), with Brad Ableson and Jonathan del Val. He previously worked as an animator for Industrial Light & Magic before moving to Pixar where he worked on three of their films.
Kyle Balda. Director: Minions: The Rise of Gru. Kyle Balda is a BAFTA nominated feature animation director working in the industry for 30 years, most notably with Illumination Entertainment and Pixar Animation Studios. He began his career in early 90s after studying at Calarts to join the crew of Industrial Light and Magic where he animated on such films as The Mask, Mars Attacks! and as supervising animator on Jumanji. After...
Jul 1, 2022 · Minions: The Rise of Gru: Directed by Kyle Balda, Brad Ableson, Jonathan del Val. With Steve Carell, Pierre Coffin, Alan Arkin, Taraji P. Henson. The untold story of one twelve-year-old's dream to become the world's greatest supervillain.
Sep 22, 2007 · Balda also loves teaching and sharing knowledge and has stepped off production, at regular intervals in his career to pursue his passion for mentoring”. In a freewheeling interview, Balda gave interesting perspectives on the finer points of animation and also on the joys of teaching.
Jul 13, 2022 · To divide and conquer the many tasks required for an animated project, Balda leaned on his co-directors, Brad Ableson and Jonathan del Val. “It’s a lot to juggle at once,” he explains. Balda ...
Jul 2, 2022 · Kyle Balda has had a hand in some aspect of animation most of his life. What started as an internship at LucasArt morphed into a graphics animator job on The Mask and the head animator on Jumanji.He quickly made his way to Weta Digital in New Zealand and Pixar, notably as the head animator on Toy Story 2.He eventually would make his way to Illumination Entertainment and worked on the head of layout for Despicable Me.While this was occurring he spent his spare time directing several short ...
Birthday: Mar 9, 1971. Birthplace: Tucson, Arizona, USA. Animator and animation director Kyle Balda served in a variety of capacities on some of the biggest box office hits of the late 20th and ...
Jun 24, 2015 · Off the back of the hugely successful The Lorax, Kyle Balda moved on to co-direct the first, standalone Minions movie. The film arrives in cinemas this Friday, and Kyle took some time out to chat ...
Kyle Balda is an American animator and film director, best known for co-directing 2012 animated film The Lorax with Chris Renaud and 2015's Minions with Pierre Coffin. He has also worked as animator on several films including Jumanji, Toy Story 2, and Despicable Me. He has worked for Pixar for years and now he is working for Illumination Entertainment.
Oct 30, 2023 · Over the past 30 years, Kyle Balda has risen from humble animator to co-director of beloved kids’ movies Minions: The Rise of Gru and Despicable Me 3.Beginning in animation for films including Mars Attacks, The Mask, and Toy Story 2, Kyle met director Pierre Coffin in Europe and helped create the animated series Pat & Stan, which would build the foundations for the Minions’ lovable antics.. In this illuminating podcast, Kyle shares the essential lessons he learned as an animator and his ...
Kyle Balda has enjoyed a 30-year career in animation, rising from animator to director of beloved kids' films like Minions: The Rise of Gru and Despicable Me...
Kyle Balda. Director: Minions: The Rise of Gru. Kyle Balda is a BAFTA nominated feature animation director working in the industry for 30 years, most notably with Illumination Entertainment and Pixar Animation Studios. He began his career in early 90s after studying at Calarts to join the crew of Industrial Light and Magic where he animated on such films as The Mask, Mars Attacks! and as supervising animator on Jumanji. After...
Jun 30, 2017 · Despicable Me 3: Directed by Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin, Eric Guillon. With Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker, Miranda Cosgrove. Gru meets his long-lost, charming, cheerful, and more successful twin brother Dru, who wants to team up with him for one last criminal heist.
How does the career path of an animation director looks like? What is the director's perspective on a production and the story? How to stay inspired? (Co-Dir...
Jun 28, 2022 · Steve Carell continues to voice Gru (center) in the forthcoming movie “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” which is set in San Francisco. Photo: Illumination Entertainment Universal Pictures. “Minions: The Rise of Gru” was a kind of homecoming for director Kyle Balda. A computer-animated homecoming, but still a fond revisit to a place he loves.
Jun 25, 2015 · In this episode of Lightbox Skwigly's Beverly Yeang talks to Kyle Balda and Pierre Coffin, the directors of Universal/Illumination's 'Minions', released in t...
Kyle Balda is a Bafta nominated feature animation director working in the animation industry for 30 years, most notably with Illumination Entertainment and Pixar Animation Studios.
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Jul 2, 2015 · This setting, paired with the directors Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda’s love for cinema, resulted in a film that pays tribute to all kinds of movies. In a phone interview, Mr. Coffin and Mr ...
Jun 30, 2022 · Their latest outing, directed by Kyle Balda, Brad Abelson and Jonathan Del Val, is “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” in which the arguably epicene creatures again try to help out their master Gru ...
Best known for making animation films The Lorax (2012), Kyle Balda is a renowned American animator and film director. Having started his career as an animation artist with Industrial Light and Music, Balda made his debut on the silver screen as an animator with the superhero fantasy comedy film The Mask (1994).
Kyle Balda. Director: Minions: The Rise of Gru. Kyle Balda is a BAFTA nominated feature animation director working in the industry for 30 years, most notably with Illumination Entertainment and Pixar Animation Studios. He began his career in early 90s after studying at Calarts to join the crew of Industrial Light and Magic where he animated on such films as The Mask, Mars Attacks! and as supervising animator on Jumanji. After...
One of those Sensei is Kyle Balda, a Bafta nominated feature animation director working in the animation industry for 30 years, most notably with Illumination Entertainment and Pixar Animation Studios. We talked to Kyle about his career, approach to stories, balancing humor and heart, and his plans for THU Japan this September! Read the interview.
Aug 23, 2009 · Highlights from Kyle Balda's 3D Animation Masterclass: Dialog Acting Tutorial, which appeared in the June 2009 issue of 3D World Magazine. This ten minute c...
