Pixar Pinoy Animators or as they say PIXNOYS: Nelson Bohol, Chris Chua, Gini Cruz Santos, Ricky Nierva and Ronnie del Carmen have made their names in this fi eld. They said the Filipinos' natural sense of humor and willingness in story telling really made an impact on making these great animation fi lms like Monsters Inc (2001)Finding Nemo (2003) ,The Incredibles (2004), Cars (2006) , Ratatouille (2007), Wall-E (2008), and Up (2009).
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Nelson Bohol
Nelson Bohol may probably be the
biggest Filipino name in Pixar
today. This native of Samar is one
of the Main Backgound and Sets
Designer of Pixar films most
notably with the award
winning Finding Nemo as
primarily responsible for creating
the VERY COOL background of
Nemo's aquarium. One thing is of
the Bahay Kubo where Nemo rests
and the Volcano (Mt.
Wanahakalugi) which was based
from Mayon Volcano in the Bicol
province. Mr. Bohol also worked
on WALL - E, Ratatouille, Cars,
The Incredibles as set design and
other Animated movies like Titan
A.E. and Anastacia as Layout
Artist.
source: http://www.smartjuan.com/nelsonbohol.html
Chris Chua
Chris Chua is a Fil-American 29
year old animator who has a
Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2-D
Animation from Cal Arts, explained
the look of “Wall-E,” which is unlike
other Pixar movies: It is
monochromatic at times and has
almost no dialogue in some scenes—
an animator’s dream, or nightmare.
He is born in Manila to a Chinese
father (William Chua) and a half-
Filipino mother (Juliet), and finally
moved to the United States at age
10. He said he’s the only artist in
the family. Before Pixar, he had also
worked with Dreamworks
animations in the films "Sinbad",
"Shark Tale" and "Flushed Away".
"Wall-E" was his first Pixar
assignment as an animator.
source: http://thefilipinofriends.com/archives/pinoy-at-pixar
Virginia Cruz
Virginia "Gini" Cruz Santos and
her family migrated to Guam
when she was 3, but she was
later sent back to the Philippines
by her father to study. She was
initially opposed to the idea, but
the Philippines grew on her, and
later she formed important
friendships in Saint Scholastica,
as well as in the University of
Santo Tomas, where she took up
Fine Arts major in Advertising.
She animated DORY in Finding
Nemo voiced by Ellen de
Generes. She also had an
important hand in bringing
characters from "Toy Story 2," "A
Bug's Life," "Finding Nemo" and
"The Incredibles" to life.
source: http://www.dexigner.com/digital/news-g3203.html
Ricky Nierva
Ricky Nierva, Since then has
worked on Monsters,
Inc., Finding Nemo and led the
production design on Up.
Nierva was born in San Diego.
He is placed in charge of the
movie’s entire visual look.
“Up” is a box office hit already
earning $250 million in the US.
“Up” builds on Pixar’s
reputation for making the
world’s best animated
features.“Up” is Nierva’s first
movie as production designer.
The movie introduces Pixar’s
first major Asian-American
character: Russell, the
wilderness explorer
Source:http://www.nierva.com/filipino-ricky-nierva-the-visual-guru-behind-pixars-up/
Ronnald del Carmen
Ronnald del Carmen (born in the
Philippines, December 31, 1959) is
an animation storyboard, story artist
and designer. He was recently Story
Supervisor on Pixar's tenth full-
length computer-animated film
titled Up and director of its
accompanying short film on
DVD, Dug's Special Mission. Ronnie
del Carmen is currently working for
Pixar Animation Studios in
Emeryville. Prior to that he's worked
at Dreamworks and Warner Bros. All
in the capacity of story artist, story
supervisor, character designer,
illustrator and all around pest.
There's documentation that shows
he's been dabbling in comics over the
years for DC and Dark Horse among
others. He self-publishes his own
comic book, Paper Biscuit.
source: http://ronniedelcarmen.comhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_del_Carmen
Jaakko Lisalo
Jaakko Lisalo (senior game
designer at Rovio mobile - Finland.)
in 2009 invented the first screen
shot of birds with no wings and
looked angry. the staff loved the
characters and made it a game but
they needed a reason the birds
were mad then the swine flu was
the big fuss, so they made the
enemy pigs.
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Robert Nay
Amazing… A new game,
Bubble Ball, designed by an
eighth grader from Utah,
Robert Nay, is the top seller
among Apple App Store’s free
games. Bubble Ball launched
on Dec. 29th 2010 and has
already been downloaded
millions of times. In fact it just
passed Angry Birds in
popularity
http://cuduwudu.com/2011/01/with-14-years-develops-the-most-downloaded-video-game-on-the-app-store/
The Sailor Moon anime, co-produced by
TV Asahi, Toei Agency and Toei
Animation, started airing only a month
after the first issue of the manga was
published. With 200 episodes airing
from March 1992 to February 1997 on
TV Asahi, Sailor Moon is one of the
longest magical girl anime series. The
anime sparked a highly successful
merchandising campaign of over 5,000
items,[which contributed to demand all
over the world and translation into
numerous languages. Sailor Moon has
since become one of the most famous
anime properties in the world.[Due to
its resurgence of popularity in Japan,
the series returned to the airwaves on
September 1, 2009. Also, Italy is
getting it rebroadcast in northern-
hemisphere autumn 2010, also getting
permission from Takeuchi who will be
releasing new artwork to promote
Fuji TV, a Japanese television station,
recently have a special TV feature
featuring TOEI Animation Studio
Philippines. It mainly focuses on the
in-between animation and dubbing of
the popular pirate anime One Piece.
It also features the influence of
anime to the Filipino pop culture,
which involves Cosplay, mangas on
bookstores, and anime in the
everyday life of Filipinos.
TOEI Animation Philippines was
founded February 15, 1992. Filipino
animators are outsourced by Japan's
Toei Animation to help produce
shows like Dragonball Z, Sailormoon,
Slam Dunk and One Piece. It
primarily creates in-between
animation from key cells created by
animators in Japan.