Alan Barillaro

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.

[4] In 2023 Barillaro published the middle grade novel Where the Water Takes Us.

[6] Alan Barillaro used new, cutting-edge technology to create the six-minute short over three years.

[7] 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.

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