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VUHS grad Jeff Pidgeon gets an Oscar for his work on ‘Toy Story 4’

March 5, 2020

For as long as Jeff Pidgeon can remember he drew. Constantly. “My goal was to be able to make a living doing it,” said the 1983 Vergennes Union High School graduate in a recent interview. Um, check. This animation artist now lives in California’s San Francisco Bay area, close to the Pixar studio in Emeryville — where he’s worked since the early ’90s. His work has been recognized in Academy Award-winning films such as “WALL-E,” “Up,” “Toy Story 3,” and, at the Oscars just last month, for “Toy Story 4.” “It’s … (read more)

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