Four Questions for Andy Harkness
By Libby Morse
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Jan 21, 2021
Andy Harkness has had an enviable career in animation: hired by Disney fresh out of art school, credits on many of the studio’s big-name animated features, an Emmy for Individual Achievement in Animation, and now, art director on Sony Pictures Animation’s buzzy Vivo (due out this June)
, which will feature music by Lin-Manuel Miranda. And yet he’d always yearned to create the kind of books that had captured his imagination as a child. As his second book, Wolf Boy
, goes on sale, we spoke with him about the clay sculpted illustrations that have become his signature, his influences and sources of inspiration, and achieving his big dream.