While talking about the new Pixar film she played a key role in making, Bryn Imagire remembered her Sacramento childhood.
Imagire has worked for Pixar since 1996 and served as production designer for “Hoppers,” which dominated the box office after opening on March 6. The movie, which stars Piper Curda, Bobby Moynihan and Jon Hamm, is about a girl who mentally experiences life as a robotic beaver and interacts with real beavers.
Imagire, 62, said her work as production designer for the film included a research trip early in production to Yellowstone National Park with a group that included the film’s head of story, a producer and director Daniel Chong. On the trip, a local guide took them to a beaver lodge that was abandoned and they could crawl inside…