Rosana Sullivan

Rosana Sullivan was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and grew up in Texas.^[1] She has one brother.^[1] When she was in high school at age 16, her father, a university professor of biology, accepted a new job at the University of San Francisco and the family relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area.^[1]

Sullivan initially studied for a career as a veterinarian, enrolling at the University of San Francisco as a biology major.^[2] In her junior year, she took a course in portrait painting to satisfy an art credit and realized that art was her real calling.^[2] She spent her senior year at USF in the fine arts program, graduating in 2007, and then attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, graduating in 2010.^[2][3]

Sullivan worked as a lead character designer at Ooga Labs and a 2D artist at Kabam before joining Pixar Animation Studios in 2011.^[3] With Pixar, she has contributed to the 3D animated films Monsters University (2013), The Good Dinosaur (2015), Piper (2016), and Incredibles 2 (2018).^[4] She was nominated for a 2015 Annie Award for outstanding achievement in storyboarding in an animated feature production for her work on The Good Dinosaur.^[5] In February 2019, she wrote and directed her first animated film, a nine-minute traditionally animated short called Kitbull, which is part of the SparkShorts series.^[6][7]

In April 2019, Sullivan published an autobiographical picture book, Mommy Sayang, describing the life of a girl and her mother in a Malaysian village.^[8] This story, along with others that she has written, was inspired by her mother's roots in Malaysia.^[1][9]

In January 2021, it was announced that Sullivan began developing a feature film for Pixar.^[10]

Short films

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Year	Title	Credited as
		Director	Storyboard artist	Writer
2009	Long Shadows	No	Yes	No
2016	Piper	No	Yes	No
2019	Kitbull	Yes	Yes	Yes
2020	Loop	No	No	Story Trust

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Feature films

More information Year, Title ...

Year	Title	Credited as
		Storyboard artist	Executive producer
2013	Monsters University	Yes	No
2015	The Good Dinosaur	Yes	No
2018	Incredibles 2	Yes	No
2019	Toy Story 4	No	Associate
2020	Onward	Yes	No
	Soul	Yes	No
2022	Turning Red	Story supervisor	No

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Sources:^{[11][1][2][4][5][6][7]}

• Mommy Sayang. Disney Press. 2019. ISBN 9781368015905.