Andrew has been animating characters professionally for 15 years. He joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1997 as an animator on "A Bug's Life", "Toy Story 2", "Monsters, Inc.", "Finding Nemo", "The Incredibles", "Ratatouille" and "Toy Story 3". Some of the characters he has worked on include Mike Wazowski from "Monsters, Inc.", Gill, from "Finding Nemo", Edna Mode, the costume designer in "The Incredibles" and Linguini from "Ratatouille". He supervised animation on Pixar’s Academy Award nominated short film "Presto" and is currently working on a future Pixar project. He has also headed up Pixar’s animation intern training program three times and continues to take an active role in training at Pixar.

Andrew studied animation in Vancouver, New York and New Jersey. Prior to his work at Pixar, he worked in the Looney Tunes division of Warner Brothers. He was awarded "Outstanding Character Animation in an Animated Motion Picture" by the Visual Effects Society for his work in "Finding Nemo".

He has been teaching animation for over 11 years and lecturing around the world, including Masterclasses in China, Spain, Singapore, Australia, Vancouver, London and Italy. He is a contributing teacher to Animation Mentor and the CSU Summer Arts program. He is one of the founders of Spline Doctors (www.splinedoctors.com), a blog/podcast dedicated to animation education. He is currently helping to develop and teach the new animation program at California College of Art in Oakland.

Matthew began his career at Pixar Animation Studios in 1992 as an animator on the very first CG movie, "Toy Story". Since that time, Matthew has worked in the Story Development department, storyboarding on "Toy Story 2", "Monsters, Inc.", "Finding Nemo", "Cars", "Ratatouille", "Up" and "Toy Story 3".

Prior to Pixar, Matthew attended the California Institute of the Arts, and was later hired as an animator on "The Simpsons", and at Industrial Light and Magic. Matthew grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area where his family has owned and operated "Jeffrey’s Toy’s", toy stores for over three generations.

Along with working at Pixar, Matthew teaches seminars all over the world on how to create great stories and characters.