Bud Luckey

William 'Bud' Luckey, best known for his character design's for Toy Story, Toy Story 2,  Toy Story 3, A Bug's Life, Monsters inc, Finding Nemo, Cars, Up, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille. Such a talented artist, cartoonist, animator, singer, musician, composer and voice actor. Described by Pixar and Disney's Creative Executive Vice President John Lasseter as one of the true unsung heroes of animation.

Luckey started out as a character designer, joined Pixar and was heavily involved as a stroyboard artist and animator for the first Toy Story. He designed Woody as a cowboy being inspired by Edgar Bergens charactor Charlie McCarthy. It just so happened, Woody's owner Andy Davis was named after Luckey's son. His surname came from a near by Town in California called Davis.

Luckey designed and wrote a short called Boudin'. It was shown as the opening cartoon before The Incredibles where he also composed the music and lyrics, and sang and performed the banjo for the soundtrack.

Bud is a huge inspiration for me, he was 69 years old when he created Boudin' and got nominated for an academy award for best short film. Now i'm undecided what path i would like to go down further into this course but just by looking at his drawings and designing of his characters. I feel it is helping me get the best out of Curley and will be attempting to incorporate his style, by using long and short camera angles in my flick book stop motion animation.