From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Colin Brady is an American animator and film director He graduate of the California Institute of the Arts CalArts has worked as lead animator animation director supervising animator and codirector with animated film powerhouses Pixar and Industrial Light amp Magic His credits have included Toy Story Toy Story 2 A Bugs Life Men in Black 2 Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events and many others A native from Chicago he started studying Mechanical Engineering at USC but dropped to go on to CalArts to pursue animation After graduating Brady joined Rhythm amp Hues Studios worked as animator on Binx the cat in Hocus Pocus He later joined Pixar Animation Studios and worked as animator on Toy Story A Bugs Life and Toy Story 2 Brady also worked at the story department in Toy Story 2 and director of the Toy Story Activity Center On Hulk and Lemony Snicket Brady and his team pioneered the motion capture of attack dogs and even eightmonthold infants On Lemony Snicket Brady helped develop an inexpensive system to reliably track facial motion While working at Imagi Studios he was appointed as director for Astro Boy a part originally givin to Eric Leighton the director of Dinosaur but later on he was switch with David Bowers He then joined Sony Pictures Animation as director for The Smurfs Movie but he again replaced with Raja Gosnell In addition Brady was supervising animator on Men in Black 2 and ET The Extraterrestrial Special Edition He is currently working as director on The Legend of Santa Claus at Lumenas Animation Studios Brady is the current Director of Marketing and Strategic Alliances at nCore Media Description above from the Wikipedia article Colin Brady licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia