Christian Roman

Originally from Massachusetts, I attended Boston University under a full Trustee Scholarship, graduating with a degree in Painting (CFA ’91).  But I realized my senior year I really wanted to get into animation.  I took an internship at a local company called Olive Jar animation and learned how to do stop motion animation.  Then moved to LA, where my first big break was on The Simpsons.  I started in Layout, then moved into Storyboarding and finally became the Storyboard Supervisor.  While I was at Film Roman (no relation!) I also directed episodes of The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat and Mission Hill.  I left Film Roman to help create and direct two Disney Television Animation series Disney’s Fillmore! and American Dragon: Jake Long.  While in LA I was a storyboard artist on many productions such as the Lilo & Stitch TV series, a Happily Every After for HBO, King of the Hill, Superman:TAS and Kronk’s New Groove.  My last job in LA was storyboarding on The Simpsons Movie, where I finally decided it was time to get into feature animation story.  By sheer coincidence one of my friends who had started working at Pixar called me and asked if I would consider moving to San Francisco and work there.  Of course I said yes!  

I started at Pixar in 2007, working on Toy Story 3, then Newt (unreleased), every Toy Story short and television special, Cars 3, Toy Story 4, Blade (unreleased), Onward, Luca, a Dug Day’s short, Elemental, and BeFri (unreleased).  I perform Improv Comedy regularly in the bay area, I am obsessed with researching genealogy, and consider myself a Star Wars nerd/ Comic Book geek/ RPGer/ Toy Collector/ Videogamer.  I also regularly attend Burning Man.  I live with my wife, teenage daughter, and cat Minnie in El Cerrito, CA.