Arts + Design
How color helps a movie tell its story
There’s no Academy Award for Best Color -- yet -- but this less-celebrated element of filmmaking is used to propel and convey the plot. Here’s how.
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Danielle Feinberg
Director of photography, Pixar
At Pixar, Danielle Feinberg delights in bending the rules of light to her every whim.
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Danielle Feinberg began her career at Pixar Animation Studios in 1997 on the feature film A Bug's Life. She quickly discovered her love for lighting and went on to light on many of Pixar's feature films including Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., the Academy Award®-winning Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and Ratatouille. Feinberg was the director of photography for lighting on Pixar’s Academy Award®-winning films WALL-E and Brave and is now working on Pixar's upcoming film, Coco.
Feinberg's love of combining computers and art began when she was eight years old and first programmed a Logo turtle to create images. This eventually led her to a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from Harvard University. Now, in addition to her Pixar work, she mentors teenage girls, encouraging them to pursue code, math and science.