Coco - crew, film crew

The entire team, the film crew of the film "Coco"
Coco (2017)
Timing: 1:45 (105 min)
Coco - TMDB rating
8.197/10
20815
Coco - Kinopoisk rating
8.726/10
795938
Coco - IMDB rating
8.4/10
700000

Film crew

Director

Producer

Executive Producer

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John Lasseter

John Lasseter
Executive Producer

Casting

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Carla Hool
Casting
Kevin Reher
Casting
Natalie Lyon
Casting

Editor

Art Direction

Nathaniel McLaughlin
Art Direction
Tim Evatt
Art Direction

Production Design

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Harley Jessup

Harley Jessup
Production Design

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

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Christopher Boyes

Christopher Boyes
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
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Michael Semanick

Michael Semanick
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Original Music Composer

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Michael Giacchino

Michael Giacchino
Original Music Composer

Additional Editing

Anna Wolitzky
Additional Editing

Associate Producer

Mary Alice Drumm
Associate Producer

Orchestrator

Jeff Kryka
Orchestrator

Director of Photography

Matt Aspbury
Director of Photography
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Danielle Feinberg
Director of Photography

Musician

Bruce White
Musician
George Doering
Musician
Andrew Synowiec
Musician
Federico Ramos
Musician
Maria Dominique Lopez
Musician
Baraka May
Musician

Sound Effects Editor

Teresa Eckton
Sound Effects Editor
Justin Doyle
Sound Effects Editor
Jack Whittaker
Sound Effects Editor

Visual Effects Supervisor

Michael O'Brien
Visual Effects Supervisor

Supervising Sound Editor

J.R. Grubbs
Supervising Sound Editor

Character Designer

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Carter Goodrich
Character Designer
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Greg Dykstra
Character Designer
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Tony Fucile
Character Designer
Daniel Arriaga
Character Designer
Daniela Strijleva
Character Designer
Daniel Lopez Muсoz
Character Designer
Zaruhi Galstyan
Character Designer
Alonso Martinez
Character Designer

Animation

Michael Bidinger
Animation
Shad Bradbury
Animation
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Frank E. Abney III
Animation
Royce Wesley
Animation
Adam Rodriguez
Animation
Shaun Chacko
Animation
Paul Diaz
Animation
Simon Christen
Animation
K. C. Roeyer
Animation
Don Crum
Animation
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Hikari Toriumi
Animation
Guillaume Chartier
Animation
Aaron Koressel
Animation
Bruce Kuei
Animation
Jayson Price
Animation
Michael Sauls
Animation
Matthew Strangio
Animation
Raphael Suter
Animation
Jessica Torres
Animation
Amanda Wagner
Animation
Benjamin Su
Animation
Joshua Dai
Animation
Mike Stern
Animation
Andrew Atteberry
Animation
Lance Fite
Animation
Andrew Gonzalez
Animation
Dionys Heurtel
Animation
Catherine Hang-Hicks
Animation
Charles Larrieu
Animation
Cody Lyon
Animation
Nicole Ridgwell
Animation
Ben Rush
Animation
David Torres
Animation

Thanks

Becky Neiman
Thanks

Production Manager

David Park
Production Manager

Screenplay

Matthew Aldrich
Screenplay

Set Designer

Don Shank
Set Designer

First Assistant Editor

Jennifer Neysa Jew
First Assistant Editor

Sound Designer

Dialogue Editor

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Michael Silvers
Dialogue Editor
Marshall Winn
Dialogue Editor

First Assistant Sound Editor

Lisa Chino
First Assistant Sound Editor

Foley Editor

Dee Selby
Foley Editor
Teresa Eckton
Foley Editor
Jim Likowski
Foley Editor

Music Supervisor

Tom MacDougall
Music Supervisor
Luis David Reyes Reyes
Music Supervisor

Songs

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Robert Lopez
Songs

Music Editor

Stephen M. Davis
Music Editor
Warren Brown
Music Editor

Co-Director

Conductor

Marshall Bowen
Conductor
J.D. Aguilar
Conductor

VFX Artist

Jason Johnston
VFX Artist
Shaun Galinak
VFX Artist
Erik Shepherd
VFX Artist
Chris Bolwyn
VFX Artist
Tyler Bay
VFX Artist

Production Coordinator

Dana Frankoff
Production Coordinator
Carolina Ángel
Production Coordinator

Scoring Mixer

Joel Iwataki
Scoring Mixer

Sound

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Kenny Pickett
Sound

Visual Effects

Stephen Matthew Gustafson
Visual Effects
Aaron Conover
Visual Effects
Jonathan Hoffman
Visual Effects
Michael Honsel
Visual Effects
Jamie Hecker
Visual Effects
Kristopher Campbell
Visual Effects
Michael Frederickson
Visual Effects
Emron Grover
Visual Effects
Jonathan Pytko
Visual Effects
David Ryu
Visual Effects
Dave Strick
Visual Effects

Lighting Supervisor

Tim Best
Lighting Supervisor

ADR & Dubbing

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Doc Kane

Doc Kane
ADR & Dubbing
Michael Miller
ADR & Dubbing

ADR Voice Casting

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Terri Douglas
ADR Voice Casting

Production Office Assistant

Maura Turner
Production Office Assistant

Original Story

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Lee Unkrich

Lee Unkrich
Original Story
Matthew Aldrich
Original Story
Jason Katz
Original Story

Lighting Artist

Mimia Arbelaez
Lighting Artist
Burt Peng
Lighting Artist
Dorien Gunnels
Lighting Artist
Linhan Li
Lighting Artist
Farhez Rayani
Lighting Artist

Animation Manager

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Jesus Martinez
Animation Manager

Foley

Dennie Thorpe
Foley
Jana Vance
Foley
Geoff Vaughan
Foley

Visual Effects Technical Director

Jamie Williams
Visual Effects Technical Director

Story Artist

Tony Maki
Story Artist
Vladimir Kooperman
Story Artist

Supervising Animator

Gini Cruz Santos
Supervising Animator
Michael Venturini
Supervising Animator

Software Engineer

Adrian Bell
Software Engineer
Mike H. Mahony
Software Engineer
Félix O. Santiago
Software Engineer
Gates Roberg-Clark
Software Engineer

Layout

Seong-Young Kim
Layout

Editorial Coordinator

Jessica Katz
Editorial Coordinator
Freddie Sulit
Editorial Coordinator

Set Dressing Artist

Alison Leaf
Set Dressing Artist

Systems Administrators & Support

Ling Hsu
Systems Administrators & Support
Andy Thomas
Systems Administrators & Support
Jonathan Hadden
Systems Administrators & Support
BoB 'Naked BoB' Morgan
Systems Administrators & Support
Shaun Brown
Systems Administrators & Support
Daryn Cash
Systems Administrators & Support
Shawn Hovis
Systems Administrators & Support
Dan Berman
Systems Administrators & Support
Nic Bishop
Systems Administrators & Support
Susanne Rublein
Systems Administrators & Support
Collin Allen
Systems Administrators & Support
Teresa Conaty
Systems Administrators & Support
John Henry Frankenhauser
Systems Administrators & Support

Art Department Manager

Courtney Casper Kent
Art Department Manager

Sound Design Assistant

Lucas Miller
Sound Design Assistant

Additional Soundtrack

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Germaine Franco

Germaine Franco
Additional Soundtrack

Fix Animator

Luis Carlos Uribe
Fix Animator
Youri Dekker
Fix Animator

Lighting Manager

Lisa Fotheringham
Lighting Manager

Archival Footage Research

Tiffany Taira
Archival Footage Research

Master Lighting Artist

Jordan Rempel
Master Lighting Artist
Philip Shoebottom
Master Lighting Artist
Ken Lao
Master Lighting Artist
Jose Luis Ramos
Master Lighting Artist
Charu Clark
Master Lighting Artist

Second Film Editor

Greg Snyder
Second Film Editor
Tim Fox
Second Film Editor

Editorial Manager

Krissy Cababa
Editorial Manager
Max Sachar
Editorial Manager

Playback Singer

Antonio Sol
Playback Singer

Additional Editorial Assistant

Sarah K. Reimers
Additional Editorial Assistant
Meghan Kraft
Additional Editorial Assistant

Lead Set Dresser

Amy L. Allen
Lead Set Dresser

Additional Production Sound Mixer

Rachael Bigelow
Additional Production Sound Mixer

Vocal Coach

Sam Kriger
Vocal Coach
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Liz Caplan

Liz Caplan
Vocal Coach

What's left behind the scenes

  • The project's working title was Dia de los Muertos, or «Day of the Dead» (this is the name of a holiday dedicated to the memory of the deceased, celebrated on November 1st and 2nd in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador).
  • Pixar employees had not worked with skeleton animation before, so they encountered a technological problem during the creation of the film. The Presto program, responsible for rendering, could not cope with clothing on skeletons. The fabric lay incorrectly on the bones, constantly getting tangled in the neck, legs, and arms, getting stuck in the gaps at the joints. The solution was to create a new program from scratch that handled clothing simulation on skeletons much better. But filling the gaps so that fabric wouldn’t get caught there was only part of the problem. The new software also handled volume exceptionally well. Each skeleton has 127 bones, and about 80 of them are visible to the viewer. The program allowed for the mass generation of characters, creating subtle changes that gave the impression of uniqueness.
  • For the world of the dead alone, where much of the action takes place, 7 million individual light sources had to be created—from streetlights to tram car bulbs. To ensure they were all displayed correctly on screen, animators took a program created for the firefly scene in "The Good Dinosaur" and reworked the code. As a result, the program grouped light sources based on various criteria, instead of processing each one individually. This significantly reduced rendering time.
  • For the world of the dead alone, where much of the action takes place, 7 million light sources had to be created – from streetlights to tram lights.
  • Initially, Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez) was only supposed to play the guitar. When director Lee Unkrich learned that Gonzalez could sing well, it was decided that the main character would sing.
  • The film constantly shows a flower. It's a marigold, which is the main flower of the Day of the Dead.
  • While visiting one of the families in Mexico, the director and screenwriter Lee Unkrich noticed that a dog was showing interest in the offerings to deceased relatives on the home altar, and had to be constantly driven away. Unkrich liked this moment so much that he included it in the script.
  • According to directors Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina, the most difficult part of working on the film was animating the grandmother's neck. Molina even asked his mother-in-law, who lived in Mexico City, to come to the studio, where they tried to anger her to see how her neck moved. This proved not easy, as his mother-in-law was a good-natured person, but after several hours they finally succeeded.
  • The landscapes of the state of Guanajuato, where colorful houses are located on the slopes of mountains, served as the basis for the image of the Land of the Dead.
  • Work on the film lasted from 2011 to 2017 – a record-long time for Pixar.
  • During the preparation, the authors and animators made five trips to Mexico to study the local culture.
  • Due to the prolonged work on the film, the voice of the actor voicing the main character began to break, and Anthony Gonzalez was taken instead. The original actor voiced an extra in a scene where he points Ernesto to the stage.
  • The film features many famous Mexicans – in particular, wrestler El Santo, actor Cantinflas, actors and singers Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete, artist Frida Kahlo, political and military figure of the revolution era Emiliano Zapata, and actress Maria Felix.
  • Dante's breed is Xoloitzcuintli, or Mexican hairless dog.
  • Initially, the film was going to be called 'Day of the Dead'. In 2015, the Walt Disney Company attempted to register the trademark 'Day of the Dead', but the company was accused of cultural appropriation. A week later, Disney renamed the film 'Coco'.
  • This is the first Pixar project to directly show the death of main characters.
  • Work on the film continued from 2011 to 2017 – a record-long time for Pixar.
  • Initially, the film was going to be called “Day of the Dead.” In 2015, The Walt Disney Company attempted to register the trademark “Day of the Dead,” but the company was accused of cultural appropriation. A week later, Disney renamed the film “Coco.”
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