Ricky Nierva

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.
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