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Clay Kaytis (born March 22, 1973) is an American animator and film director, best known for directing the animated film The Angry Birds Movie (2016), the Christmas comedy film The Christmas Chronicles (2018), and the A Christmas Story sequel A Christmas Story Christmas (2022).
Clay Kaytis made his directing debut for Rovio Animation and Sony Pictures with The Angry Birds Movie (2016). Based on the number-one app of all time, the film grossed $352M worldwide and was Sony's #1 film of 2016.
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I'm Clay Kaytis and I've been animating and making films my entire adult life. I animated on about 20 Disney animated films from Pocahontas to Frozen and then I directed The Angry Birds Movie,...
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Clay Kaytis is an American animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He has been working at the studio since 1995. Alongside storyboard artist Fergal Reilly, he also directed the 2016 animated film The Angry Birds Movie and voiced Clayton the Waiter Bird.
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Nov 30, 2023 · Q&A: Director Clay Kaytis on Nostalgia, the Holidays, and Finding Himself in His Work The filmmaker behind THE CHRISTMAS CHRONICLES, A CHRISTMAS STORY CHRISTMAS, and Peanuts holiday specials knows a thing or two about the narrative risks involved in mining our childhoods
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Clay Kaytis is known as an Director, Animation, Actor, Creative Consultant, Animation Supervisor, Screenstory, Supervising Animator, Executive Producer, Writer, Screenplay, and Opening/Ending Animation. Some of his work includes Frozen, Wreck-It Ralph, and Tangled.
May 31, 2011 · Clay Kaytis, a 16 year veteran of Walt Disney Animation, was one of 3 animation supervisors on Tangled. His FMX 2011 presentation centered around how after several years of development, the animation team went back to basics, simplified their approach, learned valuable lessons on a daily basis from Glen Keane, and in a ridiculously short 8 ...