Introduction
Jeff Pidgeon (born March 19, 1965) is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, and voice actor at Pixar.
Early life
Jeff Pidgeon was born and raised in Vergennes, Vermont. Influenced by Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts, he dreamed of becoming a newspaper cartoonist. He studied and graduated with a BFA degree from the California Institute of the Arts. He currently lives in Northern California.
Career
In 1991, he began working for Pixar Animation Studios, where he currently works as a writer, animator, and voice actor. He has worked behind the scenes on films such as FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc. and WALL-E, as well as many US TV shows. He also provided the voice for the "Aliens" in the Toy Story films and the Toy Story Toons short, Hawaiian Vacation.
He is the designer of Hamton J. Pig in Tiny Toon Adventures.
Pidgeon has also manufactured his own toys.