dchikows – Section C – Looking Outward – 05

Pedro Conti’s Work on Moana

Pedro Conti is a freelance character designer from São Paulo. His most recent work is for Walt Disney Animation Studios on the movie Moana. Conti mainly worked on creating the two barges in the movie and the trash on them. It was a total of 140 shots which he had to code to create. The attention to detail is immediately transparent. Hundreds of tiny objects had to be coded. Not only did all of the tiny objects have to be coded, but they had to be textured as well. One of the biggest challenges was that of making the barges look realistic. Conti started with the bigger graphic elements and worked his way down in layers to smaller objects to reach a final image without any intersecting lines.