Filipina
Filipinos ( tl, Mga Pilipino) are the people who are citizens of or native to the Philippines. The majority of Filipinos today come from various Austronesian ethnolinguistic groups, all typically speaking either Filipino, English and/or other ...
Pixar
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studios based in the
San Francisco Bay Area
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. She worked on numerous Pixar animation films including ''
Toy Story 2
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A Bug's Life
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'', ''
The Incredibles
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'', ''
Ratatouille
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'', ''
Toy Story 3
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'', '' Up'', '' Lifted'' and '' Brave''. She was nominated in 2004 for an '' Annie award'' for her detailed lifelike animation on '' Finding Nemo'',Rick DeMott, January 9, 2004, ANIMATIONWorld via Animation World Network Accessed June 12, 2014, "...INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT CATEGORIES Character Animation ... Gini Santos... FINDING NEMO..."Oct 23, 2009, Sean Howell, Yahoo! News , Accessed June 12, 2014, "...she integrates the fish movement, human movement, and facial expressions..." and was nominated by the
Visual Effects Society
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for an award for this project as well.Visual Effects Society, 2004 2nd Annual VES Awards , (VES= Visual Effects Society), Accessed June 12, 2014, "...Outstanding Character Animation in an Animated Motion Picture... Finding Nemo 'Inside the Whale' ... Gini Santos..."
Santos was born in
Pasay
Pasay, officially the City of Pasay ( fil, Lungsod ng Pasay; ), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 440,656 people.
Due to its location j ...
in the Philippines. She moved to
Guam
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after age three but returned to study in the Philippines. She studied Fine Arts at the
University of Santo Tomas
The University of Santo Tomas (also known as UST and officially as the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, Manila) is a private, Catholic research university in Manila, Philippines. Founded on April 28, 1611, by Spanish friar Migue ...
with a major in advertising. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Computer Arts from the
School of Visual Arts
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History
This school was started by ...
in
New York City
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.
Santos worked as an art director at an advertising agency. In 1996, she was hired by Pixar after submitting her short feature reel entitled ''The Eclipse'' without submitting her resume;Kristine A. Caguiat, July 5, 2011, Juice The All Stars of Philippine Animation: Gini Cruz Santos Accessed June 12, 2014, "...Gini Santos ... solely responsible for the lovable Dory character in Finding Nemo..." her reel focused on human relationships. Her animation of ''Dory'', voiced by
Ellen DeGeneres
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, on the film '' Finding Nemo'' was praised for integrating "fish movement, human movement, and facial expressions to make them look and feel like real characters". She was the supervising animator on the Pixar short film entitled '' Lifted''.Gini Santos (Pixar Shorts) Interview Accessed June 12, 2014, "...Gini Santos was the supervising animator on the latest Pixar short film, Lifted...."Barbara Robertson, Volume: 30 Issue: 2 (Feb 2007), Computer Graphics magazine Acorns and Aliens: Despite their focus on feature films, Pixar and Blue Sky Studios once again create Oscar-worthy short animations Accessed June 12, 2014, "...animator Gini Santos.... "Lifted" supervising animator,..." She was lauded for her work in '' Brave''.Ruben V. Nepales, Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 7, 2012 A great ‘Pilipino’ weekend Accessed June 12, 2014, "... Gini Cruz Santos...first female animation supervisor..." She is sometimes described as a ''Pixnoy'': a
Filipino
Filipino may refer to:
* Something from or related to the Philippines
** Filipino language, standardized variety of 'Tagalog', the national language and one of the official languages of the Philippines.
** Filipinos, people who are citizens of th ...