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Nicolas Alan Barillaro is a Canadian director, animator and writer at
Nicolas Alan Barillaro is a Canadian director, animator and writer at Pixar
Pixar (), doing business as Pixar Animation Studios, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films. Pixar is a subsidiary of Walt Disney ...
best known for his work on the animated short film ''Piper'', that earned him widespread acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year ...
which he shared with the film's producer Marc Sondheimer.
Barillaro also attended Sheridan College
Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, formerly Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology, is a public polytechnic institute partnered with private Canadian College of Technology and Trades operating campuses ...
in Oakville.
In 2023 Barillaro published the middle grade novel ''Where the Water Takes Us''. The book was a shortlisted finalist for the Canadian Children's Book Centre's Jean Little First-Novel Award in 2024.
''Piper''
Alan Barillaro used new, cutting-edge technology to create the six-minute short over three years. In order to give the sanderlings and other birds visible in the background a realistic look, Barillaro and the ''Piper'' animation team visited beaches in theSan Francisco Bay Area
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, as well as the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Monterey Bay Aquarium is a Nonprofit organization, nonprofit public aquarium in Monterey, California. Known for its regional focus on the marine habitats of Monterey Bay, it was the first to exhibit a living kelp forest when it opened in Octob ...
to study their appearance and behaviour. The sanderlings' feathers in particular were rendered in minute detail.
Filmography
Accolades
See also
* List of Pixar staff * List of Canadian Academy Award winners and nomineesReferences
External links
* * Canadian animated film directors Canadian animated film producers Directors of Best Animated Short Academy Award winners Living people Pixar people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Canadian male writers Canadian children's writers {{Canada-animator-stub