Animated Views have provided an english translation of Media Magic’s interview with Pixar storyboard artist, Enrico Casarosa. They chat about his upbringing, where he learnt animation, working at Blue Sky Studios, working at Pixar, storyboarding and a host of other topics. Enrico is also currently working on Up, and has been for a year, so he mentions that towards the end of the article. Here’s a little piece from the interview that I thought you might enjoy.
AV: Since you were there at the beginning of conception for Ratatouille, what was the storyline at that point, and how did you work with original director Jan Pinkava and handle the switch to Brad Bird?
EC: Well each story here at Pixar goes through so much change; we really, really are struggling to tell the best story we can, so in each movie – and I’ve been working on another movie since – there’s just a load of writing, re-writing and re-writing. We often kid around in our job, and say it should actually be called re-storyboarding! But at the beginning it was very much more of a synopsis or the beginning of a script. All the elements were there, it’s still the same movie, but it was a really great time because it was a moment where we could really start, for example, exploring how to convey the tone.
You can check out Enrico’s website here too.
Last modified: September 11, 2007