Angus MacLane
Birthdate – February 8, 1975 (49 Years Old)
Birthplace – N/A
A veteran Disney-Pixar animator and director, Angus MacLane (birthname: Angus Perry MacLane) is the director of Disney-Pixar’s 2022 spinoff of the Toy Story franchise, Lightyear. Though initially wanting to be a comic-book artist, MacLane switched his focus to animation and joined Pixar immediately after graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design. After working on each Pixar feature, starting with A Bug’s Life (1998) until Toy Story 3 (2010), he was elevated to character animator status on Monsters, Inc. (2001), and then Brad Bird’s Pixar classic, The Incredibles (2004), for which MacLane scored his first Annie Award.
After extensive collaboration with director Andrew Stanton on the Disney-Pixar masterwork, WALL-E (2008), MacLane joined Disney-Pixar’s director track with some shorts, leading up to his first feature directing assignment, the acclaimed Finding Dory (2016), with the voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O’Neill, Diane Keaton, and Eugene Levy. Soon after, MacLane began developing his idea for Lightyear, a movie concentrating on Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear character. The project was announced in 2020, with the voice of Chris Evans replacing that of Tim Allen, who voiced Buzz in the previous Toy Story movies.
Personal Details
Angus McLane was born in the Southern California county of Riverside and was raised in Portland, Oregon. He attended and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. MacLane’s height is 6’ 4”.
Filmography
The Incredibles
Animation Department (2004)
Lightyear
ERIC (2022)
Some Facts About Angus MacLane
Hidden Voice: Angus MacLane was the voice of the character of BURN-E, a supporting robotic character in Andrew Stanton’s Disney-Pixar animated classic, WALL-E (2008). He wrote and directed his first animated short the same year about the BURN-E character, which appears on the WALL-E DVD and Blu-ray packages.
A First in Animation: MacLane’s Lightyear is the first animated feature to be released in IMAX format, with the aspect ratio opening from 2.39: 1 to 1.43:1 for select sequences.
Awards
Two-time Winner, Best Director Animated TV/Character Animation, Annie Awards (2005, 2014).
