Bobby Podesta

  • Chief Creative Officer

    Bobby Podesta graduated with his BFA in Film from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), where he completed several films, including his short Smoke…, which received the student Emmy for Animation in 1997. After graduation, Bobby joined Pixar Animation Studios, where he worked as an animator and story artist on A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles. Bobby was a Directing Animator on Cars and Supervising Animator on the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage at Disneyland. Most recently he was Supervising Animator on Toy Story 3 before leaving Pixar to become Chief Creative Officer at ToyTalk.