Eric Pigors

Career

Pigors came up with the name Toxic Toons after he was choking on a cloud of Toxic fumes from a spray can in 1990. He was using the spray paint to paint the backgrounds used for his cartoons.

For over 18 years, Pigors has worked in the animation industry. He has worked with Walt Disney Feature Animation, where he would hand draw work on films.

Works

Pigors has worked on the following movies and shows:

Movies

Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985) (Inbetween Artist)

Oliver & Company (1988) (Breakdown and Inbetween Artist)

The Little Mermaid (1989) (Breakdown and Inbetween Artist)

The Rescuers Down Under (1990) (Assistant Animator)

Beauty and the Beast (1991) (Assistant Animator: "Wolves")

Aladdin (1992) (Assistant Animator: "Rajah" and "Guards")

The Lion King (1994) (Key Assistant Character Lead: "Hyenas")

Pocahontas (1995) (Key Assistant Animator: "Governor Ratcliffe")

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) (Key Assistant: Additional Clean-Up Animation)

Hercules (1997) (Key Assistant Animator: "Hades")

Tarzan (1999) (Key Assistant Animator: "Kerchak")

Fantasia 2000 (2000) (Key Clean-Up Animator)

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) (Key Assistant Clean-Up Animator: "Atlantean King Kashekim Nedakh")

Treasure Planet (2002) (Visual Development Artist/Character Designer) / (Key Assistant Animator: "Long John Silver")

Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) (Key Assistant Animator)

Home on the Range (2004) (Key Assistant Animator: "Alameda Slim" and "Junior the Buffalo")

The Princess and the Frog (2009) (Key Assistant Animator: "Charlotte "Lottie" La Bouff")

Shows

Family Dog (1993) designed by Tim Burton.

Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo Haw Haw Halloween Special (2005)

The Looney Tunes Show (2012 - 2013) (Storyboard Clean-Up Artist - 4 Episodes)

Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production (2015) (Storyboard Cleanup - 17 Episodes)

Shorts

Technological Threat (1988) (Designer) / (Assistant Animator)

Let's Chop Soo-E (1989) (Designer/Animator/Director) / (Voice)

Runaway Brain (1995) (Additional Clean-Up Artist)

Video Shorts

One by One (2004) (Clean-Up Artist)

Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters (2011) (Clean-Up Animator: Duncan Studio Production)

Publications

Pigors, Eric. Unkle Pigors's Ghoulishly Ghastly Deadtime Stories / by Eric Pigors. Valencia, California: Eric Pigors, c2003. 1 v. (unpaged): ill. (some col.); 26 cm. ISBN 0-9719118-1-9

Pigors, Eric. Toxic Toons / Eric Pigors. (Valencia, California): Eric Pigors, c1999. 1 v. (unpaged): chiefly ill. (some col.); 28 cm.

Pigors, Eric. Cobwebs and Vinegar: The Art of Eric Pigors. 1st ed. Valencia, California: Eric Pigors, [2005?] 1 v. (unpaged): col. ill.; 26 cm. ISBN 0-9719118-0-0

Film

Nurse Hackit in Let’s Chop Soo-E / International Rocketship Limited; designed, animated, and directed by Eric Pigors; producer, Marv Newland. Canada: [s.n.], 1991. 1 reel of 1 (629 ft.): sd., col.; 35 mm. ref print.