LUCA

I joined the Luca crew very early in production as the first environment look development artist in production. My task was to work in partnership with the production designer and art directors to help develop the overall look of the environments as well as the look and stylization of the film. It was an incredibly fun production to be a part of, and was a fun challenge to find the right balance between stylization and photoreal that the director and production designer were aspiring for their vision of a beautiful, story book 1960’s Italy Cinque Terre. Below is a small sample of the environments and assets I look developed for the film.

Island

I was responsible for the look development of the Island and Cove environments.

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Portorosso

I worked closely with the production designer and art directors to develop the look of the shading of Portorosso, with a specific focus on the building color palettes, the painterly shape language & design, and the overall visual language of the surfaces in the piazza.

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Project Credits:

Directed by

  • Enrico Casarosa

Produced by

  • Andrea Warren, p.g.a.

Executive Producers

  • Pete Docter

  • Peter Sohn

  • Kiri Hart

Associate Producer

  • William Reusch

Production Designer

  • Daniela Strijleva

Visual Effects Supervisor

  • David Ryu

Production Manager

  • Krissy Cababa

Animation Supervisor

  • Michael Venturini

Directors of Photography

  • David Juan Bianchi

  • Kim White

Character Supervisors

  • Beth Albright

  • Sajan Skaria

Sets Supervisor

  • Chris Bernardi

Set Extension Supervisor

  • Matthew Webb

Crowds Animation Supervisor

  • Lindsay Andrus

Crowds Technical Supervisor

  • J.D. Northrup

Global Technology & Dailies Supervisor

  • Darwyn Peachey

Simulation Supervisor

  • Henry Dean Garcia

Effects Supervisor

  • Jon Reisch

Rendering Supervisor

  • Reid Sandros

Character Art Director

  • Deanna Marsigliese

Sets Art Directors

  • Don Shank

  • Paul Abadilla

Color & Shading Art Director

  • Chia-Han Jennifer Chang

Graphics Art Director

  • Josh Holtsclaw

Art Manager

  • Hana Yoon

Sets Manager

  • Annie Mueller

Art Coordinators

  • Gerisa Macale

  • Deborah Poznansky

  • Paige Johnstone

Color Script & Lighting Design

  • Daniel López Muñoz

Lighting Keys

  • Ernesto Nemesio

  • William Cone

Character Designers

  • Maria Yi

  • Daniel Holland

  • Jason Deamer

Set Designers

Kristian Norelius Nat McLaughlin Garrett Taylor Noah Klocek Philip Metschan

Shading Designers

  • Laura Phillips

  • Bert Berry

Sculptor

  • Greg Dykstra

Development Artists

Tadahiro Uesugi Chris Sasaki Sylvain Marc Lou Romano

Additional Production Design

  • Harley Jessup

Sets

Sets Modeling Lead

  • Joshua West

Set Dressing Lead

  • Michael Rutter

Sets Shading Leads

  • Andrew Whittock

  • Christopher M. Burrows

Sets Technical Lead

  • Marlena Fecho

Sets Coordinator

  • Nicholas Robert

Sets Modeling Artists

Min-Yu Chang Ivo Kos Nick Pitera Dale Ruffolo Gastón Ugarte Jeanette Vera Raymond V. Wong Chen Zhang

Set Dressing Artists

Amy L. Allen Cheyenne Chapel Tom Miller Christina Garcia Weiland

Sets Shading Artists

Tracy Lee Church Andrew Finley Jack Hattori Mallory Kohut Jared Rawle Richard Snyder Jamie Williams

Sets Technical Artists

  • Antony Carysforth

  • Mike Ravella

Additional Sets Shading

  • Benjamin Beech

  • David Munier

Sets Intern

  • Rachel Thomas

Set Extension Artists

Alec Bartsch Michael Frederickson Laura Murphy Martin Sebastian Senn

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