Jerry Rees
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Jerry Rees is an animator and director best known for the 1987 Emmy-nominated animated special The Brave Little Toaster. He supervised and helped create many of the visual effects for the cult classic Tron, and is also a sculptor and fine artist.
Rees was mentored as an animator from the age of 16 at Disney Studios by one of Walt Disney’s Nine Old Men, trained and taught at California Institute of the Arts, and began work in 1978 as animator for the Christian children's film The Small One. He also worked on the 1981 Disney film The Fox and the Hound, and the following year served as one of the visual effects supervisors for the cutting-edge science fiction film Tron.
In 1987, Rees and science fiction writer Thomas M. Disch collaborated on adapting Disch's short story The Brave Little Toaster into an animated film. The resulting movie was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and nominated for Best Animated Program at the 1988 Emmys. He also teamed up with fellow Cal Arts alum Tim Burton to co-write and co-direct the cult classic featurettes Doctor of Doom and Luau.
Rees also directed the 1991 Neil Simon-penned The Marrying Man and served as an animation producer on the 1996 film Space Jam.
In addition to his film credits, Rees helped produce and direct a record-setting 13 multimedia features at the various Disney theme parks, including Sounds Dangerous at Disney-MGM Studios, the live-action sequences of Cranium Command at EPCOT, Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular at Disney-MGM Studios, Rockin' Roller Coaster at Disney-MGM Studios and Eurodisney, Extra-Terrorestrial Alien Encouter at Magic Kingdom, Michael & Mickey at Disney-MGM Studios, the new Cinemagique show at EuroDisney, as well as the award-winning "Back to Neverland" documentary starring Robin Williams and Walter Cronkite shown as part of the animation studio tours at Disneyland and Walt Disney World.
Currently, Rees is a full time creative consultant at the San Francisco film studio Wild Brain, Inc., where he is developing CGI Features. Rees is also attached to direct a Casey Silver Productions CGI feature.
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