Kyle Balda
Kyle Balda was born in Tucson, Arizona, United States on March 9th, 1971 and is the American Animator And Film Director. At the age of 53, Kyle Balda biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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During his time at CalArts, Balda was hired by LucasArts as an intern to create the animated opening credit sequence for the graphic adventure game Day of the Tentacle.
He started his career as an animator by working at Industrial Light & Magic, in the films including 1994's The Mask as graphics animator, 1995's Jumanji as animation supervisor, and in 1996's Mars Attacks! as character animator. He also worked at Weta Digital once in New Zealand, on the 1996 film The Frighteners, he animated the Grim Reaper for the film. Later Balda started working at Pixar, and his works included 1998's A Bug's Life as an additional animator, 1999's Toy Story 2 as the directing animator, and 2001's Monsters, Inc. as animator. In 2010, he joined the Illumination Entertainment in Paris, and worked in the 2010s Despicable Me as the head of layout. Balda has also directed several short films and lectured at different animation schools.
In 2012, Balda co-directed the Illumination's animated film for his directorial debut The Lorax along with Chris Renaud. The film was released domestically on March 2, 2012 by Universal Pictures and grossed over $348 million with a budget of $70 million.
In 2015, Balda directed another Illumination animated film, Minions, along with Pierre Coffin. The film was released domestically on July 10, 2015, by Universal and has grossed over $1.1 billion.
In 2017, Balda co-directed Despicable Me 3. In his role as co-director he pushed for the film to have a more vibrant color palette than its predecessors.