As the creative Lighting Supervisor for Pixar’s “Toy Story”, Sharon Calahan has been a member of the technical team at Pixar for the many years. Her background and education in art and design led her into advertising, broadcast TV, video production, and eventually computer animation. With a focus on lighting direction, Sharon has worked in computer animation for over ten years. Besides “Toy Story” and various commercial work, other accomplishments have been as the computer animation Lighting Director for Hanna-Barbera’s “The Last Halloween” which won an Emmy for Special Effects.
Sharon was lighting director on Finding Nemo, Toy Story 2, and A Bug''s Life, She was Lighting Supervisor on Ratatouille and Toy Story
Sharon was lighting director on Finding Nemo, Toy Story 2, and A Bug''s Life, She was Lighting Supervisor on Ratatouille and Toy Story
Sharon has written extensively about the practice of lighting within animation
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