Brian McDonald (screenwriter)
| Brian McDonald | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 18, 1965 St. Joseph, Missouri |
| Other names | Brian McDonald |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, director, teacher, author |
| Years active | 1975–current |
| Website | http://invisibleinkblog.blogspot.com.au/ |
Brian Keith McDonald (born February 18, 1965) is an American screenwriter, director, teacher and author, who lives in the state of Washington. McDonald is best known for the books Invisible Ink, The Golden Theme and Ink Spots, and for the short film White Face.
Brian McDonald was born in St. Joseph, Missouri on February 18, 1965. He was named after his mother's favorite actor, Brian Keith. He has two younger brothers and a younger sister. McDonald lived in Denver, Colorado until the age of seven. After his parents divorced, he moved to Seattle, Washington with his mother.
One of his teachers suggested that he had a learning disability; McDonald learned that he was dyslexic when he was around twenty years old.
As a child, he used a cassette recorder to tape television shows, then watched them repeatedly "to see what made them tick." McDonald made his first film, The War, which featured green plastic Army men in battle, when he was 10 years old.
McDonald started his first film-related job as a teenager around 1979, working for Bruce Walters at a company called Trickfilm in Seattle, making animated titles, motion graphics and effects for commercials. When Walters took a job with Industrial Light and Magic in 1983, McDonald continued working with other Seattle-based animators until he was 21. He interned for Alpha Cine labs, working for Bruce Vecchitto in the FX and title department, and for the Tennesson/Tobin Animation Studio.
In 1986, he moved from Seattle to Los Angeles. His first job in L.A. was with Ted Rae on a movie called Night of the Creeps (1986), working as a runner who assisted in making the Creeps. In 1988 he worked as a fabricator on Dead Heat, Return of the Living Dead Part II, and Night of the Demons. McDonald worked as an animator on The Resurrected, a 1992 horror film, and as a production assistant on Sleepless in Seattle (1993). He also worked on other "creature" movies without gaining screen credits.
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