hayward was born in kingston, ontario. at a young age, hayward began his career at mainframe entertainment animating and directing commercials, he was one of the original animators of the television series, "reboot". throughout his career he has worked at pixar animation studios, 20th century fox and blue sky studios, and was an animator for "toy story", "a bug's life", "toy story 2", "monsters, inc.", and "finding nemo". he was the sequence director and story consultant for "robots".