He contributed to these animated films as a co-author to the scripts, and worked with CGI stalwarts such as John Lasseter, Ronnie del Carmen, Bob Peterson, Andrew Stanton, Brad Bird, and Joe Ranft. It just kind of blew my socks off.ĭocter has been an integral part of some of Pixar's most seminal works, including Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bug's Life and Monsters, Inc., all of which received critical acclaim and honors. It's got to be about characters, and yet it was so cinematic, a film that couldn't be done in any other medium.
It was almost theatrical in the same way you might see a stage show because you're locked in a room. I like the more character-driven stuff, and Paper Moon brought that home to me in a way that I had not seen in live action, really focusing on the whole story just about characters. Elder in an interview for The Film That Changed My Life. He had a mirror on his desk and made faces with it as he conceptualized the character.ĭocter's fascination with character development was further influenced by a viewing of Paper Moon, he told journalist Robert K. He was one of the three key screenwriters behind the concept of Toy Story, and partially based the character of Buzz Lightyear on himself.
Coming to Pixar you feel like, 'Oh! There are others!'"ĭocter had been brought in with limited responsibilities, but John Lasseter quickly assigned him larger and larger roles in writing, animation, sound recording, and orchestra scoring. a lot of us felt we were the only person in the world who had this weird obsession with animation. Docter instantly felt at home in the tight-knit atmosphere of the company. Deciding to follow his instincts and what "felt right" at the time, he accepted the job offer from then obscure Pixar and began work there the day after his college graduation as the tenth employee at the company's animation group and its third animator. He started at Pixar in 1990 at the age of 21 after John Lasseter asked his former classmate the late Joe Ranft, who was one of Docter's teachers at CalArts, to recommend any students who would be a good fit for the company. He commented in an October 2009 interview, "Looking back, I kind of go, what was I thinking?" He was a fan of the company's early short films, but he knew nothing about them otherwise. All three shorts were later preserved by the Academy Film Archive. He did not think much of Pixar at that time, and later considered his choice to work there a strange and unusual one.īefore joining Pixar, Docter had created three non-computer animations, Next Door, Palm Springs, and Winter. Although Docter had planned to work for Walt Disney Animation Studios, his best offers came from Pixar and from the producers of The Simpsons.
He spent about a year at the University of Minnesota studying both philosophy and making art before transferring to the California Institute of the Arts, where he won a Student Academy Award for his production "Next Door" and graduated in 1990. Cartoon director Chuck Jones, producer Walt Disney, and cartoonist Jack Davis were major inspirations. He later described his interest in animation as a way to "play God", making up nearly living characters.
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and Up.ĭocter taught himself cartooning, making flip books and homemade animated shorts with a family movie camera. Unlike his two sisters, Kirsten Docter, who was the violist and a founding member of the Cavani String Quartet, and Kari Docter, a cellist with the Metropolitan Opera, Docter was not particularly interested in music, although he learned to play the double bass and played with the orchestras for the soundtracks of Monsters, Inc. He attended Nine Mile Elementary School, Oak Grove Junior High, and John F. A junior-high classmate later described him as "this kid who was really tall, but who was kind of awkward, maybe getting picked on by the school bullies because his voice change at puberty was very rough."īoth his parents worked in education: his mother, Rita, taught music and his father, Dave, was a choral director at Normandale Community College. He often played in the creek beside his house, pretending to be Indiana Jones and acting out scenes. He grew up introverted and socially isolated, preferring to work alone and having to remind himself to connect with others. Docter was born in Bloomington, Minnesota, the son of Rita Margaret (Kanne) and David Reinhardt Docter.
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