SELECTED STUDIO WORK
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PIXAR REEL 2024
STUDIO: Pixar Animation Studios
ROLE: Senior Character Animator
WIN OR LOSE – FRANCIS
I usually spend ridiculous amount of time researching the characters I’m animating.
Francis was one of those rare cases where he was pretty much a delicious blank canvas, great voice acting and awesome trusting directors. Here are some of my references and inspiration I used when creating performances for Francis The Janitor on Pixar’s “WIN OR LOSE”.
There are also some video ref of myself that will never end up on internet 😎
Also the boards were just awesome!
WIN OR LOSE – IRA
A wise singer from a cool band once said: “Enjoy the silence”.
When animating this scene of Ira, I was looking for ways to get inside his psyche, finding a way to invite the audience into the mind of this character. This scene felt like a pretty intimate moment so I didn’t want to take it on just face value. The answer came from a tiny pause our editor team had put in there for me. Right after when Ira says “I’m sorry I stole…” our editor had inserted a breath of just pure gold, delicious, bubbly, heaven sent SILENCE. I realized THIS IS IT! This is who Ira is – A little kid who is just trying to figure sh*t out – to the best of his ability. So I had him focusing extra hard during that pause, spelling and writing that five letter word S-T-O-L-E – to best of his ability – and probably still messing it up… 🙂
Shots of “Brian” animated by Chris Sanchez. – great stuff!
All episodes of WIN OR LOSE now on D+! 🐟
Some people say it’s among the best Pixar has done, ever. You be the judge.