Alum Profile
DormiE Took A ‘Brave’ Step into ComputeR Animation
With
encouragement from his art teachers,
Andy Lin ’04 embarked on a
career that has led to working on an
Oscar-winning film at Pixar Animation Studios.
Andy’s advice to current OES students:
“Believe in what you want to do and follow your heart.”
playing the games, but then he began making modifications to the software to create different environments or allow the characters in the games to do things beyond what was possible in the original game. Of course, Andy didn’t just play games all day; he
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wasn’t allowed to. Students have to go to classes and do homework. He found that he liked art classes the best and he liked his art teachers—Sue Jensen, Jack O’Brien, and Matt Lyon. Andy wanted to pursue his love of art but was concerned that he would not be able to make a living with it. His teachers told him that with his talent it was possible, and they encouraged him to go to art school. After graduating from OES, he went to the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), a highly respected art school in Georgia. At SCAD, he gravitated toward working with computer images, and after graduation he was accepted for an internship with Pixar Animation Studios in
oming to OES to live in the dorm was “pretty scary” for Andy Lin ’04. But when he arrived, he found lots of other people who were in the same situation: far from home and parents and on their own for the first time. And he soon found that many of his fellow dormies shared his enthusiasm for computer games. At first, Andy just enjoyed
Emeryville, California, and then stayed with Pixar as a lighting designer. Now he works there with a team of colleagues, similar to his life in the OES dorm. “Tere is a sense of camaraderie among fellow team-
mates,” he said. “Tere are a lot of unknowns and we are always trying to invent and discover new things together.” However, instead of modifying computer games, he and his teammates are creating animated films and are quite successful at it. He first worked on Partly Cloudy, which was a short attached to the Academy Award- winning feature film Up. Ten he worked on Cars 2, and he was the shot lighting artist on Brave, which won the Oscar this year for Best Animated Feature. “I was excited and happy when we won the
Oscar,” Andy said. “It reflects well on everybody who worked on the film and on the studio. Making these films possible is really a group effort.” As in the dorms, Andy has found a group of like- minded people who enjoy a similar interest, and he enjoys baking macaroons for his teammates. He looks back fondly on his life in the dorms at OES, where he discovered his interest, and he especially remembers spending time with classmates, such as on the senior rafting trip on the Deschutes River. “After floating on the river, we would just lie in our tent, exhausted but relaxed,” he said. “Most of all it was about the people.”
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