Fergal Reilly is an Irish film director, storyboard artist, voice actor and animator best known for directing the animated film The Angry Birds Movie.
10 Facts About Fergal Reilly
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Fergal Reilly started working at the Walt Disney Studios in Los Angeles, and Dale Baer Animation as an animator and story board artist.
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Fergal Reilly was a story artist on the Warner Brothers animated and hybrid movies The Iron Giant, Space Jam, and Osmosis Jones.
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Fergal Reilly is an alumnus of Gormanston College a former boarding school in Ireland where he drew comics, cartoons and caricatures in lieu of any formal art classes.
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Fergal Reilly attended the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology where he initially studied graphic design, but always suspected that he did not want to spend his life "pushing type around reports for banks".
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Fergal Reilly was among the first animation artists to work on both live-action and animated movies.
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Fergal Reilly left Warner's to work on Stuart Little and The Haunted Mansion creating storyboards and concept art.
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Fergal Reilly worked with Jon Favreau and Richard Linklater as a story supervisor on special projects.
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In 2012 Fergal Reilly was picked by the Irish Technology Leadership Group as one of the most influential Irish Americans influencing the worlds of entertainment and technology alongside Kathleen Kennedy producer of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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Fergal Reilly made his feature film directing debut in 2016 with The Angry Birds Movie, which he co-directed with Clay Kaytis for Sony Pictures Entertainment.