Brian Fee

Brian Fee
Fee in 2017
Occupations	Storyboard artist film director voice actor
Years active	1998–present
Employer	Pixar Animation Studios (2003–2023)[1][2]
Children	2[1]

Brian Fee is an American storyboard artist, director, and voice actor best known for his work at Pixar Animation Studios[3] where he made his directorial debut with the feature film Cars 3 (2017), the third film of the Cars franchise.[4][5][6][7]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Director	(Original) Story by	Story Artist	Animator	Designer	Other	Notes
2000	The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle	No	No	No	Assistant	No	No	Assistant Animator: Traditional Animation
	The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea	No	No	No	No	Prop	No	Direct-to-video
	Joseph: King of Dreams	No	No	No	Character builders	No	No
2006	Cars[8]	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Voices of Al Oft the Lightyear Blimp / Brian Fee Clamp
2007	Ratatouille	No	No	Additional	No	No	No
2008	WALL-E	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
2011	Cars 2	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
2013	Monsters University	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
2017	Cars 3	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Pixar Senior Creative Team

Independent

Year	Title	Producer	Cinematographer	Other	Role	Notes
2009	Tracy[9]	Yes	Yes	Yes	Tracy Knapp / Albert Knapp Sr.	Extras, additional music

Shorts

Year	Title	Director	Story Artist	Animator	Notes
1999	Fractured Fairy Tales: The Phox, the Box & the Lox	No	No	Assistant	Animation Assistant
2000	The Indescribable Nth	No	No	Assistant	Assistant Animator
2022	Cars on the Road	Yes	Yes	No	Directed episodes 3, 4, and 7; Pixar Senior Creative Team

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law	Animator, assisting & clean-up	Episode: Bannon Custody Case

Other credits

Year	Title	Credit
2008	BURN-E	Special Thanks
2015	Inside Out	Pixar Senior Creative Team
	The Good Dinosaur
2016	Finding Dory
2017	Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool	Special Thanks
	Coco	Pixar Senior Creative Team
2018	Incredibles 2
2019	Toy Story 4
2020	Onward
	Soul
2021	Luca
2022	Turning Red
	Lightyear
2023	Elemental

References

1. Cohen, Adam (November 2, 2017). "Interview with Disney*PIXAR CARS 3 Director Brian Fee and Producer Kevin Reher". DaDa Rocks. Retrieved June 15, 2024.
2. Taylor, Drew (July 5, 2023). "Inside Pixar's Existential Crisis and How It Can Bounce Back After Disney+ Stole Its Mojo". TheWrap. Retrieved January 18, 2025.
3. Murphy, Jackson. "Pixar's Brian Fee on "Cars 3" and the NASCAR Hall Of Fame". Animation Scoop. Retrieved 31 October 2017. After working as a storyboard artist on several Disney/Pixar films, [...] Brian Fee made his directorial debut
4. S, C (May 30, 2016). "Cars 3 Images and Details Revealed by Disney•Pixar". comingsoon.net. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
5. Taylor, Drew (April 27, 2017). "'Cars 3' Director Brian Fee on Going From Story Artist to Filmmaker". Moviefone. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
6. Radish, Christina (26 April 2017). "'Cars 3': Debut Director Brian Fee on His Moment of Panic". Collider. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
7. Sciretta, Peter (16 June 2017). "The Emotional Story That Inspired 'Cars 3'". SlashFilm. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
8. Anderton, Ethan (May 17, 2017). "'Cars 3' Interview: Director Brian Fee on the Story's Evolution, Improvisation in Animation & More". SlashFilm. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
9. Trumbore, Dave (March 5, 2020). "How Dan Scanlon's Indie Film 'Tracy' Paved the Way to 'Onward'". Collider. Retrieved November 10, 2020.

External links

• Brian Fee at IMDb