Nicolas Alan Barillaro is a Canadian director, animator and writer at Pixar best known for his work on the animated short film Piper, [1] that earned him widespread acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film which he shared with the film's producer Marc Sondheimer. [2] [3]
Barillaro also attended Sheridan College in Oakville. [4]
Alan Barillaro used new, cutting-edge technology to create the six-minute short over three years. [5] 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 the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as the Monterey Bay Aquarium to study their appearance and behaviour. The sanderlings' feathers in particular were rendered in minute detail.
| Year | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | A Bug's Life | Additional animator |
| 2001 | Monsters, Inc. | Character developer and animator |
| 2003 | Finding Nemo | Directing animator |
| 2004 | The Incredibles | Supervising animator |
| 2005 | Jack-Jack Attack | Video short, animator |
| 2006 | Lifted | Short, animator |
| 2008 | WALL-E | Supervising Animator |
| 2008 | Igor | Animator |
| 2012 | Brave | Supervising Animator |
| 2013 | Monsters University | Additional animator |
| 2016 | Piper | Short, writer/director |
| 2018 | Incredibles 2 | Supervising Animator |
| 2020 | Soul | Animator |
| Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academy Awards | February 26, 2017 | Best Animated Short Film | Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer for Piper | Won | [6] |
| Annie Awards | February 4, 2017 | Best Animated Short Subject | Won | [7] |
The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is given each year for animated films. An animated feature is defined by the academy as a film with a running time of more than 40 minutes in which characters' performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique, a significant number of the major characters are animated, and animation figures in no less than 75 percent of the running time. The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature was first awarded in 2002 for films released in 2001.
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