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.