Possible Clues:

• Make something lively
• Living in centre of Southampton upset friend
• Work on a Pixar movie, perhaps
• A friend from Ulster, perhaps, comes to invigorate one
• Rouse an ape? It is to be avoided!
• Make move, as a cartoon
• Imbued with life
• Work on a DreamWorks movie, maybe
• Enliven a Northern Ireland pal
• Team in a stew, having to create a cartoon