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Who is gini cruz santos?
Who is Gini Cruz Santos?
Who is Gini Cruz Santos?
Gini Cruz Santos is a Filipina animator at Pixar studios based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is born in Pasay City in the Philippines and moved to Guam after age three but returned to study in the Philippines. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas with a major in advertising and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Gini Santos is Pixar’s first ever female Filipino lead animator.
Biography
Santos worked as an art director at an advertising agency. In 1996, she was hired by Pixar after submitting her short feature reel entitled The Eclipse without submitting her resume. The reel was focused on human relationships.
Santos worked as an art director at an advertising agency. In 1996, she was hired by Pixar after submitting her short feature reel entitled The Eclipse without submitting her resume. The reel was focused on human relationships.
- She was nominated in 2004 for an Annie award for her detailed lifelike animation on Finding Nemo.
- was nominated by the Visual Effects Society for an award for this project as well.
- she was able to make it to the high ranks in a male-dominated industry.
- Gini Santos is Pixar’s first ever female Filipino lead animator.