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David Ryu(I)

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David Ryu is known for Coco (2017), Luca (2021) and Toy Story 3 (2010).
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    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 1 win & 3 nominations total

    Known for

    Alfonso Arau, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Gael García Bernal, Dyana Ortelli, Herbert Siguenza, and Anthony Gonzalez in Coco (2017)
    Coco
    8.4
    • Visual Effects
    • 2017
    Marco Barricelli, Jim Gaffigan, Maya Rudolph, Peter Sohn, Emma Berman, Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, and Saverio Raimondo in Luca (2021)
    Luca
    7.4
    • Visual Effects
    • 2021
    Tom Hanks, Joan Cusack, Tim Allen, John Ratzenberger, Wallace Shawn, Jodi Benson, Blake Clark, Estelle Harris, Jeff Pidgeon, Don Rickles, and Frank Welker in Toy Story 3 (2010)
    Toy Story 3
    8.3
    • Visual Effects
    • 2010
    Chris Evans in Lightyear (2022)
    Lightyear
    6.1
    • Additional Crew
    • 2022

    Credits

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    Visual Effects

    • Marco Barricelli, Jim Gaffigan, Maya Rudolph, Peter Sohn, Emma Berman, Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, and Saverio Raimondo in Luca (2021)
      Luca
      7.4
      • visual effects supervisor
      • 2021
    • Julia Louis-Dreyfus, John Ratzenberger, Tracey Ullman, Mychael Danna, Jeff Danna, Wilmer Valderrama, Catherine Apple, Sharon Calahan, Grey DeLisle, Chris Pratt, Kori Rae, Mel Rodriguez, Dan Scanlon, Octavia Spencer, Keith Bunin, Kyle Bornheimer, Noah Klocek, Lena Waithe, Adam Habib, Jason Headley, Tom Holland, Ali Wong, and George Psarras in Onward (2020)
      Onward
      7.3
      • renderman integration lead
      • 2020
    • Tom Hanks, Keanu Reeves, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale, Christina Hendricks, Keegan-Michael Key, Ally Maki, and Jordan Peele in Toy Story 4 (2019)
      Toy Story 4
      7.6
      • global technology engineer (uncredited)
      • 2019
    • Alfonso Arau, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Gael García Bernal, Dyana Ortelli, Herbert Siguenza, and Anthony Gonzalez in Coco (2017)
      Coco
      8.4
      • visual effects
      • 2017
    • Sigourney Weaver, Willem Dafoe, Diane Keaton, Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, John Ratzenberger, Deb Fink, Andrew Stanton, Brad Garrett, Allison Janney, David Arnott, Torbin Xan Bullock, Doug Burch, Ty Burrell, Cathy Cavadini, Judi M. Durand, Idris Elba, Bill Hader, Barbara Harris, Aaron Hendry, Andy Hirsch, Carlyle King, Eugene Levy, Vicki Lewis, Angus MacLane, Jeremy Maxwell, Kate McKinnon, Daniel Edward Mora, Ed O'Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Jason Pace, Austin Pendleton, Bob Peterson, David Randolph, Jerome Ranft, Katherine Ringgold, Stephen Root, Andreana Weiner, Dominic West, Aaron Fors, Alexander Gould, Will Collyer, Nancy Truman, Regina Taufen, Liza Seneca, Willow Geer, Dylan Naber, Carrie Paff, Terrell Ransom Jr., Alex Puccinelli, Dashell Zamm, Gunnar Sizemore, Molly Jackson, Emma Shannon, Daniella Jones, Dara Iruka, Carter Hastings, Paige Nan Pollack, Hayden Rolence, Riley Lio, Veronika Bonell, Ashlyn Faith Williams, Gabriel C. Brown, Bennett Dammann, Sloane Murray, and Lucia Geddes in Finding Dory (2016)
      Finding Dory
      7.2
      • new technology integration supervisor
      • 2016
    • Michael Caine, Vanessa Redgrave, Katherine Helmond, Bonnie Hunt, Joe Mantegna, Cheech Marin, John Ratzenberger, Tony Shalhoub, John Turturro, Kathy Griffin, Jason Isaacs, John Lasseter, Owen Wilson, Livio Badurina, Senka Bulic, Bruce Campbell, Paul Dooley, Teresa Gallagher, Jeff Garlin, Michael Giacchino, Jeff Gordon, Zijad Gračić, David Hobbs, Eddie Izzard, Peter Jacobson, Harley Jessup, Pero Juricic, Richard Kind, Thomas Kretschmann, Bradford Lewis, Jenifer Lewis, Leon Lučev, Lela Margitic, Edie McClurg, Emily Mortimer, Brent Musburger, Franco Nero, Dora Polic, Zarko Potocnjak, Alma Prica, Guido Quaroni, Ben Queen, Joe Ranft, Denise Ream, Zarko Savic, Stephen Schaffer, Sonoko Konishi, Velibor Topic, Zvonimir Torjanac, Stanley Townsend, Michael Wallis, Ljubo Zecevic, Ronald Zlabur, Tarik Filipovic, Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsumi, Lloyd Sherr, Larry the Cable Guy, Darrell Waltrip, Dan Fogelman, Patrick Walker, Jess Fulton, Lewis Hamilton, Sig Hansen, John Mainieri, Claudia Leitte, Michel Michelis, Gillian Bolt, Ivan Saric, Stéphan Macchi, Kristen Phaneuf, and Catie Bolt in Cars 2 (2011)
      Cars 2
      6.2
      • crowds rendering optimization (uncredited)
      • 2011
    • Tom Hanks, Joan Cusack, Tim Allen, John Ratzenberger, Wallace Shawn, Jodi Benson, Blake Clark, Estelle Harris, Jeff Pidgeon, Don Rickles, and Frank Welker in Toy Story 3 (2010)
      Toy Story 3
      8.3
      • global technology lead
      • simulation and effects sequence lead
      • 2010
    • Edward Asner, Bob Peterson, and Jordan Nagai in Up (2009)
      Up
      8.3
      • global technology engineer
      • 2009
    • WALL·E (2008)
      WALL·E
      8.4
      • crowds rendering optimization
      • 2008
    • Janeane Garofalo, Ian Holm, Brian Dennehy, John Ratzenberger, James Remar, Will Arnett, Brad Garrett, Kathy Griffin, Brad Bird, Lindsey Collins, Walt Dohrn, Tony Fucile, Michael Giacchino, Bradford Lewis, Danny Mann, Teddy Newton, Patton Oswalt, Lou Romano, Peter Sohn, Jake Steinfeld, Stéphane Roux, Lori Richardson, Thomas Keller, Julius Callahan, Marco Boerries, Andrea Boerries, and Jack Bird in Ratatouille (2007)
      Ratatouille
      8.1
      • crowds technical lead
      • 2007
    • Paul Newman, Tom Hanks, Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Michael Keaton, Tim Allen, Katherine Helmond, Bonnie Hunt, Cheech Marin, John Ratzenberger, Tony Shalhoub, Andrew Stanton, Mario Andretti, Dave Foley, John Lasseter, Jay Leno, Randy Newman, Jeremy Piven, Owen Wilson, Darla K. Anderson, Jack Angel, Michael Bell, Bob Bergen, Susan Blu, Torbin Xan Bullock, Rodger Bumpass, George Carlin, Scott Clark, Lindsey Collins, William Cone, Bob Costas, Edmund Cupcupin, John Cygan, Jennifer Darling, Paul Dooley, Paul Eiding, Bill Farmer, Brian Fee, Teresa Ganzel, Craig Good, Jan Rabson, Jess Harnell, Jean-Claude Kalache, Richard Kind, Jorgen Klubien, Jenifer Lewis, Sherry Lynn, Danny Mann, Edie McClurg, Mickie McGowan, Laraine Newman, Teddy Newton, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Adrian Ochoa, Bob Pauley, Bob Peterson, Richard Petty, Steve Purcell, Guido Quaroni, Joe Ranft, Jonas Rivera, Lou Romano, Dan Scanlon, Stephen Schaffer, Ken Schretzmann, Bob Scott, Sonoko Konishi, Michael Wallis, Jim Ward, Humpy Wheeler, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Ray Magliozzi, Tom Magliozzi, Kiel Murray, Phil Lorin, Larry the Cable Guy, Darrell Waltrip, Dan Fogelman, E.J. Holowicki, Artie Kempner, Michael Schumacher, Colette Whitaker, Mike Nelson, A.J. Riebli III, Lynda Petty, Jay Ward, Elissa Knight, Larry Benton, Douglas Keever, Sarah Clark, Richard Cawood, Hooman Khalili, Kathy Coates, Erik Langley, Matty Staudt, Marco Boerries, and Andrea Boerries in Cars (2006)
      Cars
      7.3
      • production engineering
      • 2006
    • Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, and Barry Humphries in Finding Nemo (2003)
      Finding Nemo
      8.2
      • computer graphics artist: characters
      • 2003

    Additional Crew

    • Catherine O'Hara, Thomas Newman, Jonathan Adams, Wilma Bonet, P.L. Brown, Ronnie Del Carmen, John Hoberg, Alex Kapp, Jean-Claude Kalache, Matthew Yang King, Ronobir Lahiri, Denise Ream, Stephen Schaffer, Don Shank, Peter Sohn, Kat Likkel, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jeff LaPensee, Innocent Ekakitie, Mason Wertheimer, Clara Lin Ding, Brenda Hsueh, Shila Ommi, Leah Lewis, David Juan Bianchi, Ben Morris, Joe Pera, Mamoudou Athie, and Reagan To in Elemental (2023)
      Elemental
      7.0
      • senior technology team: Pixar
      • 2023
    • Chris Evans in Lightyear (2022)
      Lightyear
      6.1
      • senior technology team: Pixar
      • 2022
    • Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Tristan Allerick Chen, Ava Morse, Hyein Park, and Rosalie Chiang in Turning Red (2022)
      Turning Red
      6.9
      • senior technology team: Pixar
      • 2022
    • Steve Buscemi, Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina, Bonnie Hunt, John Ratzenberger, Dave Foley, Kathy Griffin, Sean Hayes, Jason Marsden, Randy Newman, Lori Alan, Carlos Alazraqui, Jack Angel, Robert L. Baird, Bob Bergen, Gregg Berger, Rodger Bumpass, Tara Strong, Dane Cook, John Cygan, Charlie Day, Walt Dohrn, Paul Eiding, Jessica Evans, Bill Farmer, Dannah Feinglass Phirman, Nathan Fillion, Donald Fullilove, Teresa Ganzel, Daniel Gerson, Jan Rabson, Bill Hader, Jess Harnell, Jean-Claude Kalache, John Kassir, Tyler Labine, Dawnn Lewis, Sherry Lynn, Danny Mann, Mona Marshall, Mickie McGowan, Alec Medlock, Joel Murray, Laraine Newman, Ricky Nierva, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Bret 'Brook' Parker, Donovan Patton, Bob Peterson, Jeff Pidgeon, Kori Rae, Dan Scanlon, Greg Snyder, Peter Sohn, Mindy Sterling, Julia Sweeney, Marcia Wallace, Jim Ward, April Winchell, John Krasinski, Sean Conroy, Bobby Moynihan, Joel Spence, Patrick Seitz, Makenna Cowgill, Greg Dykstra, Keith Ferguson, Colette Whitaker, Cristina Pucelli, Brandon Johnson, Allan McLeod, Neil Campbell, Aubrey Plaza, Matthew Mercer, Andy Fischer-Price, Elissa Knight, Raymond Ochoa, Tyler Ganus, David Neher, Samantha Sadoff, Gage Davenport, Isabella Acres, Joseph John Schirle, Noah Johnston, Patrick Carlyle, Montse Hernandez, Mason Cook, Lindsay Lefler, Beth Behrs, Davin Ransom, Dave Theune, Tyree Brown, Jack Bright, Ava Acres, Madison Rothschild, Erica Teeple, Tricia McAlpin, Nikolas Michailidis, Betsy Sodaro, Aramé Scott, Gia Michailidis, Mike Hanford, Kristen Li, Pam Murphy, Casey Barden, Natalie Jane Dang, Ethan Louis Samuels DiSalvio, Brooke Klinger, Alexis Poindexter, Ileanna Bravos, Clayton Drier, Faith Goblirsch, Calum John, Marley Pearson, Khiara Symone Threets, and Kristen Phaneuf in Monsters University (2013)
      Monsters University
      7.2
      • global technology supervisor
      • 2013
    • Janeane Garofalo, Ian Holm, Brian Dennehy, John Ratzenberger, James Remar, Will Arnett, Brad Garrett, Kathy Griffin, Brad Bird, Lindsey Collins, Walt Dohrn, Tony Fucile, Michael Giacchino, Bradford Lewis, Danny Mann, Teddy Newton, Patton Oswalt, Lou Romano, Peter Sohn, Jake Steinfeld, Stéphane Roux, Lori Richardson, Thomas Keller, Julius Callahan, Marco Boerries, Andrea Boerries, and Jack Bird in Ratatouille (2007)
      Ratatouille
      8.1
      • technical development team
      • 2007
    • Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee, Craig T. Nelson, Brad Bird, Sarah Vowell, and Spencer Fox in The Incredibles (2004)
      The Incredibles
      8.0
      • software engineering
      • 2004
    • Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, and Barry Humphries in Finding Nemo (2003)
      Finding Nemo
      8.2
      • studio tools research & development
      • 2003

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