Tasha Sounart

Tasha Sounart began her career as an animator on ''A Bug's Life'' at Pixar. She was an animator there for nine years, before leaving Pixar for Double Fine Productions. At Double Fine, she was the lead animator on Brütal Legend. During the period of time when Brütal Legend was left with no publisher, the head of the Double Fine studio, Tim Schafer, gave the project leads a chance to forget about what they were doing and come up with concepts and lead a team on smaller projects over the course of two weeks to develop prototype games, dubbed the "Amnesia Fortnight". Sounart pitched an idea that she had when she was at Pixar about a game centered on kids trick-or-treating on Halloween. The prototype game, Costume Quest, was pitched to publishers, and THQ greenlit the game with a $2 million budget. Tasha Sounart has a webcomic called ''Tasha's Comic, which was created as part of Double Fine Comics. During the production of Brütal Legend'', Double Fine's webmaster, Klint Honeychurch, created a flash game based on ''Tasha's Comic, called Tasha's Game'' with artwork and animation by Sounart. On September 9, 2011 she posted her last comic on Double Fine's website and moved her comic to her personal blog because she had left Double Fine to rejoin Pixar as their lead franchise artist. On December 19, 2012, Tasha Sounart announced that she was expecting her first child. She gave birth to a son named Colton on July 3, 2013. ==Recognition==