He was nominated for an Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Character Animation for the film.
[3] In 2007, Sweetland pitched a short film about a sympathetic magician who gets "dumped" by his rabbit.
This eventually evolved to a more slapstick film (and a throwback to Warner Bros. classic Looney Tunes).
Teddy Newton was brought on board to design the characters; it emerged as Sweetland's directorial debut, Presto, which preceded WALL-E in theaters.
[5] In April 2015, Warner Bros. announced that the film, which Sweetland co-directed with Stoller, would be released on September 23, 2016.