{"id":200682,"date":"2023-08-02T07:30:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T11:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=200682"},"modified":"2023-07-26T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T12:18:09","slug":"uconn-magazine-seeking-smart-with-heart-at-pixar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/08\/uconn-magazine-seeking-smart-with-heart-at-pixar\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: Seeking \u201cSmart with Heart\u201d at Pixar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eunice Omega \u201911 (CLAS) might have more \u201cpinch me\u201d moments than most, working at what many would consider a dream company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting to sit at my first table read was electrifying,\u201d says Omega, a former assistant housing director at the School of American Ballet who started as a Pixar Animation Studios creative development associate in July 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Omega spends much of her workday playing matchmaker, reading agent-submitted scripts to find the right writers for in-development projects. \u201cI determine if the script is quality writing, if it\u2019s tonally what we look for at Pixar,\u201d she says. \u201cOur motto is, \u2018Smart with heart.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also helps facilitate research, cultivates experts to weigh in on experiences being portrayed in upcoming films, and has sat on one of the studio\u2019s \u201cCulture Trusts,\u201d where a group of employees helps ensure authentic cultural representation. Omega is in the room with other creatives batting around ideas, taking down notes \u2014 but also giving notes, entertainment speak for feedback, when the opportunity arises.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2023\/06\/15\/smart-with-heart\/?utm_campaign=magazine_summer_2023&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=uconn_today_readmore\">Read on for more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eunice Omega says the coolest thing about working at Pixar is the impact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":200683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,2226,2235,102,2227],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1929],"class_list":["post-200682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-clas","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine","category-uconn-edu-homepage"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 09:51:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200684,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200682\/revisions\/200684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/200683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200682"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=200682"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=200682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}