Cody Lyon was sitting in Pixar Animation Studios’ theater on Sunday night watching a live-broadcast of the Oscars. He was clad in a “Coco” shirt and hat, feet propped on the seat in front of him, popcorn all over. But when he saw the clip shown for “Coco” was one that he animated, the Silt native sat straight up.
“I thought, maybe I better clean myself up a little bit,” he said with a laugh.
“Coco” won two Oscars for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Song, and 24-year-old Lyon was part of it as an animator at Pixar.
While in middle school at Riverside in New Castle, Lyon saw a documentary on Pixar and knew immediately animation was something he wanted to do. “I never really realized you could do that for a job, I always just thought people did it as a hobby,” Lyon said.
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