COCO
I came on towards the end of production of Coco to help out with taking on a lot of smaller scale projects in order to help take the film to the finish line. One of the projects I was most excited to tackle on this film was the opening prologue sequence. I did early look development on the shading of the Papels (The Paper Flags), and worked with the production designer to achieve the vision he had for the color palette and feeling of the papel materials. It also was a fun technical challenge managing all of the graphics and animated texture sequences created by the 2D animators, and working collaboratively with all these different departments.
Prologue
Misc. Asset Shading
Project Credits:
Directed by
Co-Directed by
Adrian Molina
Produced by
Darla K. Anderson, p.g.a.
Executive Producer
John Lasseter
Associate Producer
Mary Alice Drumm
Production Designer
Harley Jessup
Supervising Technical Director
David Ryu
Director of Photography - Camera
Matt Aspbury
Director of Photography - Lighting
Danielle Feinberg
Character Supervisor
Christian Hoffman
Sets Supervisor
Chris Bernardi
Global Technology Supervisor
J.D. Northrup
Rendering Supervisor
Susan Fisher Fong
Sets Art Director
Nat McLaughlin
Character Art Director
Daniel Arriaga
Shading Art Directors
Bryn Imagire
Bert Berry
Art Managers
Piper Freeman
Courtney Casper
Additional Character Art Direction
Daniela Strijleva
Additional Shading Art Direction
Rona Liu
Concept Designers
Daisuke "Dice" Tsutsumi
Robert Kondo
Additional Set Art Direction
Tim Evatt
Sets Designers
Jason MerckGrant AlexanderDean Kelly Don Shank
Shading Designers
Shelly Wan
Ana Ramírez González
Lighting Concept Artists
Huy Nguyen
Ernesto Nemesio
Sets Manager
Hana Yoon
Sets Modeling Lead
Gastón Ugarte
Sets Dressing Lead
Amy L. Allen
Sets Shading Lead
Eric Andraos
Sets Technical Lead
David Dixon
Sets Pipeline & Shading Technical Lead
Jamie Hecker
Set Extension Lead
David Luoh
Sets Modeling Artists
Christina Faraj Nathan Fariss Cati Grasso Greg Peltz Dale Ruffolo Dave Strick Joshua West Raymond V. Wong
Sets Dressing Artists
Alison Leaf P. Antonio Piedra Yekaterina Satanina Frank Tai
Sets Shading Artists
Alec Bartsch Tracy Lee Church Andrew Finley Jack Hattori Thidaratana Annee Jonjai Laura Murphy Jared Rawle Clint Rea Peter Roe Richard Snyder Megan Stifter Lan Tang Andrew Whittock Jamie Williams
Sets Technical Artists
Jun Han Cho
Yaa-Lirng Tu
Set Extension Artists
Hosuk Chang
Martin Sebastian Senn
Matte Painter
Randy Berrett
Sets Coordinators
Mark Milla
Shelley Smith
Additional Set Dressing Leadership
Kristen Beech-Needham