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BYU alumnus helps make computer-simulated cloth look real for Pixar’s ‘Coco’

Interview • Emron Grover talks about combining art and technology, and making clothes for animated characters that “embrace the skeleton.”

(Deborah Coleman  | Pixar Animation Studios) Emron Grover, who grew up in Draper, Utah, and graduated from Brigham Young University, is "cloth lead" on Pixar's "Coco," which opens in theaters nationwide on Wednesday, Nov. 22. He's photographed here at Pixar's headquarters in Emeryville, Calif.

(Deborah Coleman | Pixar Animation Studios) Emron Grover, who grew up in Draper, Utah, and graduated from Brigham Young University, is "cloth lead" on Pixar's "Coco," which opens in theaters nationwide on Wednesday, Nov. 22. He's photographed here at Pixar's headquarters in Emeryville, Calif.