Alan Barillaro

The book was a shortlisted finalist for the Canadian Children's Book Centre's Jean Little First-Novel Award in 2024. In 2025 Barillaro published the middle grade novel Bunns Rabbit.

Alan Barillaro used new, cutting-edge technology to create the six-minute short over three years. In order to give the sanderlings and other birds visible in the background a realistic look, Barillaro and the Piper animation team visited beaches in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as the Monterey Bay Aquarium to study their appearance and behaviour. The sanderlings' feathers in particular were rendered in minute detail.

• Year — Film — Role • 1998 — A Bug's Life — Additional animator • 1999 — Toy Story 2 — Animator • 2001 — Monsters, Inc. — Animation character developer • 2003 — Finding Nemo — Directing animator • 2004 — The Incredibles — Supervising animator • 2005 — Jack-Jack Attack — Video short, animator • 2006 — Lifted — Short, animator • 2007 — Ratatouille — Pixar Productions • 2008 — WALL-E — Supervising animator • 2012 — Brave — Supervising animator • 2013 — Monsters University — Additional animator • 2016 — Piper — Short, Director/writer • 2018 — Incredibles 2 — Supervising animator • 2019 — Toy Story 4 — Custom Animation Production • 2020 — Lamp Life — Short, Animator • 2020 — Soul — Animator • 2020 — Burrow — Short, Additional Animator • 2021 — Pixar Popcorn — Director (Chore Day - The Incredibles Way) • 2022 — Lightyear — Character Developer, Animator

• Award — Date of ceremony — Category — Recipient(s) — Result — Ref(s) Reference(s) • Academy Awards — February 26, 2017 — Best Animated Short Film — Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer for Piper • Annie Awards — February 4, 2017 — Best Animated Short Subject