Allison Rutland

Allison Rutland is a Canadian animator and illustrator, who has worked at major film studios such as Moving Picture Company, Framestore, and Pixar Studios. Rutland won the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in 2016.

Early life Rutland was raised in Milton, Ontario. She attended E.C. Drury High School. She then attended Sheridan College's Computer Animation program, graduating in 2003.

Career Rutland's animation career started with animating for film studios in Toronto, Canada, working primarily on commercials and TV shows. After her work on the film Everyone's Hero, she was accepted into film studios in London, England. She worked in London for two years on visual effects for studios that produced movies such as The Tale of Despereaux, Where the Wild Things Are, and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

Rutland notes across the animation studies in her career of a gender imbalance of women animators: she was the only woman in her Toronto employment, and one of twenty women employed by Pixar in 2009.

She also teaches online at the Academy of Art University.

Awards and achievements Rutland was the recipient of the Annie Award in 2016 for her work on Character Animation for Inside Out. She was nominated alongside colleague John Chun Chiu Lee for the Annie Award in 2017 for her work on Coco, with the award going to the former.

In 2017, Rutland was inducted in the Milton Walk of Fame.

Filmography The Tale of Despereaux (2008), character animator Toy Story 3 (2010), character animator Brave (2012), character animator Monsters University (2013), character animator Inside Out (2015), character developer and animator Finding Dory (2016), character animator Coco (2017), character animator Incredibles 2 (2018), character animator Onward (2020), directing animator Soul (2020), character animator Turning Red (2022), character animator Elemental (2023), directing animator

Other works Sammy the Snail, Book, illustrator