When we were drawing, we had conversations on how the cape would move. A cape on a full-size adult moves in a different way than a little cape on a tiny toy. The animation and simulation artists could actually wear it and act out the shots to see how the cape would move. This is something we don’t normally do, but Mariana is really passionate about Bo. It came with Velcro attachments so that you can wear it either as a skirt or a cape. Tailoring artist Mariana Galindo, who did the digital clothing for Bo, also made a real reversible cape - dark on the outside, polka dots inside. With the outfit, we were looking at how these materials will look like up close? What does a ribbon look like on a waist of a doll? In the time she spent running around as a lost toy, her seams have come apart, so she repurposes her dress as a cape. Bo, however, has more realistic proportions because of the type of toy she is. “Woody and Buzz look like toys because they have exaggerated body proportions.
“Think of us as creating the strings for a puppet and the animator would then take the puppet and pose them,” says MacMahon who joined Pixar in 2016 and has worked on Cars 3, the Oscar-winning short Bao, and Purl, a workplace satirical short released on Pixar’s YouTube channel.ģ. What does a rigger do, then? Her job is to translate the art department’s designs into a 3D sculpture and add controls for the animation department to manipulate the character’s movements, from facial expressions to shifting joints. In other words, she has to figure out how the character is going to look like. “When I found out I get to be picking up, I was really excited, honestly.” All in all, she spent a year working on Bo.Īs character designer, MacMahon's job is to create a bunch of images of the character that complements its quirks and traits in the story. In Singapore recently for the first-ever Pixar Animations Studios Drawing Workshop, a special programme in the Children’s Festival by Gardens by the Bay, MacMahon remembers watching the first Toy Story when she was “six or eight”. “So we are able to realise Bo in new levels of details that we haven’t before.” “The technology we had back then was really different from what we have now,” says MacMahon, who joined Pixar in 2016. Before and After: Bo Peep in the original 1995 'Toy Story' (top, left) and 2019's 'Toy Story 4'.
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