Peter Sohn

Peter Sohn is an American animator, voice actor and storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios.,

Sohn started his career with Pixar in the art and story departments for Finding Nemo.^[1] He also worked on The Incredibles, Ratatouille and WALL-E. Sohn also performed the voice of Emile in Ratatouille. He made his directorial debut with the short film Partly Cloudy in 2009 which he also wrote. Partly Cloudy was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2009. Sohn co-directed the English voice version of Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea in 2009 with John Lasseter and Brad Lewis.^[2]

Sohn was born and raised in New York City, his parents were Korean immigrants. He attended CalArts and while there got a summer job working on Brad Bird's The Iron Giant. After school he worked at The Walt Disney Company and Warner Brothers before coming to Pixar.

Russell, the boy in Up, was based on Sohn.^[3] He even voiced Russell in the corresponding short, George & A.J..

Sohn is currently co-directing The Untitled Pixar Movie About Dinosaurs with Bob Peterson, the film is set to release in 2013.

Filmography

• The Iron Giant (1999): Additional Animator, Rough Inbetweener
• Osmosis Jones (2001): Animator
• Finding Nemo (2003): Story Artist, Production Artist
• The Incredibles (2004): Story Artist, Production Artist, Animator, additional voices
• One Man Band (2005): Production Art
• Ratatouille (2007): Story Artist, Animator, voice of Emile
• Your Friend the Rat (2007): voice of Emile
• WALL-E (2008): Story Artist
• Cars Toons (2008): Additional Voices (Tokyo Mater)
• Ponyo (2009): Director (U.S. Production)
• Up (2009): Storyboard Artist
• Partly Cloudy (2009): Director, Writer
• George & A.J. (2009): Voice of Russell
• Toy Story 3 (2010): Additional Production Artist
• Monsters University (2013): Voice (unknown character)
• Untitled Pixar Movie About Dinosaurs (2013): Co-Director

References

External links

• Peter Sohn at the Internet Movie Database