Biography
Ricky Nierva, also credited as Ricky Vega Nierva, is an American production designer, animator, storyboard artist and character designer. He began his career at Pixar Animation Studios in the story department on Toy Story 2 (1999).
Nierva worked on Monsters, Inc. (2001) as a character designer and on Finding Nemo (2003) as art director for characters. He served as production designer on Up (2009) and Monsters University (2013). Born in San Diego, he is Filipino-American and later joined Spire Animation Studios as a production designer.
