Ricky Nierva

Ricky Nierva
Background information
Nationality	American
Occupation	Animator, storyboard artist, character designer
Years active	1996-present

Ricky Vega Nierva is an American animator, storyboard artist, and character designer at Pixar Animation Studios.

He started at Pixar in the story department on Toy Story 2 in 1997. Since then he has worked on Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and led the production design on Up. Nierva was born in San Diego.

Filmography

• Toy Story 2 (1999): storyboard artist
• Monsters, Inc. (2001): character designer
• Finding Nemo (2003): character designer
• Up (2009): Production designer
• Monsters University (2013): Production designer
• Inside Out (2015): development artist
• Bao (2018): additional visual development
• Smash and Grab (2019): art
• Soul (2020): storyboard artist

Trivia

• In Finding Nemo, one of the three tiki statues displayed in Philip Sherman's Aquarium is an actual caricature of Ricky Nierva; the other two tikis are actual caricatures of Nelson Bohol and Peter Sohn.

External links

• Ricky Nierva on IMDb

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