Jill Culton is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, and screenwriter. With her directorial debut on Sony's first animated film, Open Season , she became the first female principal director of a big budget, computer-generated feature.

Jill Culton is known for Abominable (2019), Monsters, Inc. (2001) and Toy Story (1995).

Sep 25, 2019 · Abominable director Jill Culton on the trials and rewards of 30 years in animation. From scrappy days at Pixar to getting Sony’s animation department off the ground, Culton has seen it all

Oct 11, 2019 · It took several years, but writer-director Jill Culton has finally seen her animated film “ Abominable ” come to the big screen, and in a big way. The DreamWorks Animation – Pearl Studio...

Jill Culton is a Pixar employee who co-wrote Monsters, Inc. (2001) and was a part of the animation team for Toy Story (1995) and Toy Story 2 (1999). Culton also directed a non-Pixar film, Sony Pictures Animation's Open Season (2006).[1]

Jill Culton is an American animator, who is best known for her directorial debut on Sony's first animated movie, Open Season. Previously, she studied at the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts.

Sep 19, 2019 · Yi (Chloe Bennet), center, her mother (Michelle Wong, left) and grandmother, Nai Nai (Tsai Chin, right) have a tense moment in their Shanghai apartment in DreamWorks Animation and Pearl Studio’s “Abominable,” written and directed by Jill Culton.

Jill Culton is a 30-year veteran in animation serving as an animator (2D and CG), a character designer, visual development artist, story board artist, head of story development, writer, director and executive producer.

For writer and director Jill Culton, who also directed Open Season (2006), taking on Abominable meant an opportunity to develop an animated film with a strong, female lead more representative of the type character she would have related more to as a kid than the fairy tale princesses she routinely saw in films and on TV. When DreamWorks invited ...