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And it’s a wrap! One last thing I wanted to share: during the production of La Luna every sunday night at the end of a weekend I’d be like: “YES! IT’S MONDAY TOMORROW!! I CAN’T WAIT!”. I’ve had a lot of great times at Pixar but never before had I this feeling about going to [...]

Kevin Reher (La Luna’s producer) and Aj Riebli (Production manager) with SupTech Daniel McCoy and I at the Pixar atrium. Kevin and Aj are working behind the scenes to get us the crew and resources we need at the time we need them … all with the goal to finish La Luna within time and [...]

The lighting department is responsible for the final look of the movie, they translated Bill Cone’s colorscript beautifully! Lighters are also known to live in dark dark caves, but they are really friendly … they were also an absolute hoot to work with! From left (in first photo): Fonz, Charu, Esdras, Kyoung, Bryan (Lighting Lead) [...]

I stop by at Supervising Technical director of La Luna Daniel McCoy’s office to check on the shading on one of our props. We actually watercolored most of the textures we applied to our models.

Steve Bloom and I record temporary gibberish for the story reels. The actors changed but the gibberish and the gesticulating stayed! I am acting as grandpa, can you tell? By the way here‘s an old cartoon I grew up with in Italy, La Linea. Inspiringly goofy stuff.

We try and figure out the physics of sweeping with animators Juan Carlos Navarro and Javier Moya. We video sessions like these to help capture the right movement. Won’t tell you much more than this to avoid spoilers!