Rango 2011

Concept and character design. Blind Wink/Paramount. Dir: Gore Verbinski.

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Annie Award for Character Design in a Feature Production.

Behind the scenes: How Eugene Yelchin collaborated on character design with David Shannon (Recess), Mark “Crash” McCreery (Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Jurassic Park), James Ward Byrkit (Mouse Hunt, Pirates of the Caribbean) and Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean), on what The New York Times went on to call “arrestingly, grotesquely hairy, slimy and scaly.” Read more in Syfy.com’s 'Symmetry is not our friend': How Rango, one of Hollywood's most out-of-the-box animations, got made