The search for Pixar's perfect "Luca" sea monster started with ancient maps. When director Enrico Casarosa formulated the coming-of-age story, inspired by his own childhood on the Italian Riviera ...

Pixar is no stranger to the challenges of ... The design of these sea monsters—Luca and Alberto, as well as Luca’s family members—was based on urban legend and artwork from vintage Italian ...

‘La Luna’ director Enrico Casarosa and his team looked to 2D animation and hand-drawn techniques to help create the next Pixar film. Luca, Pixar’s newest film, tells the tale of a young sea ...

Luca, the next feature film from Pixar, is a coming-of-age story about a pair of unassuming young boys who carry a big secret, as they’re actually sea monsters. Luca and Alberto appear as human ...

But for Pixar that's pretty small gnocchi ... In this movie, when a sea monster like Luca (Jacob Tremblay), with his electric-blue fauna hair and aqua skin and Creature from the Black Lagoon ...

But in a town that prides itself on killing sea monsters, Luca and Alberto will have to ... Girl”) and Mike Jones (“Soul”) know their Pixar story beats, from the wild moments of physical ...

“Luca” Multi-LimbsDisney/Pixar But the most effective technique ... they could re-purpose the special rig they made for the sea monster/human transformations using a variation on the blending.

Tween-age sea monster Luca lives with his overprotective ... The recycled story elements identify "Luca" as lesser Pixar, more in the vein of "Onward" or "Cars 3" than "Nemo" or "Up." ...

That sounds like a harsh judgment, but in light of Pixar’s recent track record ... In this movie, when a sea monster like Luca (Jacob Tremblay), with his electric-blue fauna hair and aqua ...

One of Pixar’s greatest technical challenges with Luca was the transformation from sea monster to boy—a metamorphosis that occurs anytime Luca (or his friend Alberto) touches water.