Mark Andrews

Mark Elliott Andrews (born September 12, 1968) is an American filmmaker, animator, and storyboard artist. He is best known for directing (alongside Brenda Chapman) the 2012 Pixar feature film Brave. He was the story supervisor for The Incredibles and Ratatouille, directed the short film One Man Band and co-wrote the short films Jack-Jack Attack and One Man Band.

Career Andrews studied animation at the Character Animation Program at CalArts. After that he was one of five who got a Disney internship, but was fired after three months. He is also considered to be Brad Bird's "right-hand man". Some of his student films have been featured at MOMA's exhibition Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures. Unlike most other CalArts alumni, he was not a huge fan of Disney films, and claimed he was a bigger fan of anime such as Kimba the White Lion, Speed Racer, and Robotech.

He is the father of Maeve Andrews, who voiced Jack-Jack Parr in The Incredibles. Andrews replaced Brenda Chapman as director of Brave (2012). Both were credited as directors, and they won the 2013 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

On January 13, 2013, it was announced that Andrews was writing and directing another original feature film at Pixar. Having now directed an animated film, Andrews found the storyboarding phase on Brave to be a frustrating and overly time-consuming process since a 2-D context was being used to convey a 3-D film and it left little room for change later on. This contrasted with his experience on John Carter just before where that film was always being made in the context of the live-action medium and changes could be made in real time. Andrews pitched to Pixar Presidents Ed Catmull and Jim Morris his idea to make his next film at Pixar using mo-cap instead of storyboards for sketching ideas. Andrews' intention for using mo-cap was to be in a 3-D context earlier in the process of making a 3-D film, which was approved. The series was made using Unreal Engine developed by Epic Games in collaboration with Reel FX Animation.

In October 2021, it was announced that Andrews was attached to write and executive-produce an animated fantasy drama for Fox Entertainment and Bento Box Entertainment titled Hawkmaster. In July 2024, Andrews was also attached as the showrunner of a "post-apocalyptic samurai dinosaur" series for animation and VFX studio Floating Rock titled Kyōryū. By July 2026, Andrews signed on as supervising director and co-showrunner on John Carter, Warlord of Mars, an animated series adaptation of John Carter.

Filmography

Films

Short films

Television

Music video Year Title DirectorStoryboardArtistNotes2021"The Writing on the Wall" Music video by Iron Maiden

Video games

Other credits Year Title Role 2008 Bolt Consultant - uncredited 2009 Tracy Pitchman #1 Wild Dogs Special Thanks 2011 Toy Story Toons: Small Fry 2015 Sanjay's Super Team 2016 The Jungle Book Thanks 2019 Smash and Grab Brian Larsen's Story Brain Trust Float Story Trust 2021 Nona Special Thanks