Susman had been with the studio since at least 1995, when another Pixar employee reportedly accidentally deleted the files from the box office hit “Toy Story 2.” Susman saved the day: She had a backup copy of the film while working on it from home on maternity leave. MacLane had been an animator with the studio for 26 years, working up to his solo directorial debut with “Lightyear.”
MacLane and Susman were longtime Pixar employees. Pixar did not immediately respond to The Chronicle’s request for comment. While relatively small compared with the Walt Disney Co.-owned studio’s employee base of about 1,200 people, the layoffs are the first significant cuts for Pixar in a decade. Pixar laid off 30 people in 2013 after delaying the release of “The Good Dinosaur” until 2015 and letting go of director Bob Peterson, according to Reuters. Michael Agulnek, Pixar’s vice president of worldwide publicity since 2015, was also laid off, Reuters reported.
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