Rachel Daniels-Gallo is a Production Designer at Warner Bros. Animation. She possess expertise in animation, 3d modeling, feature films, maya, visual effects and 39 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "Rachel did some awesome stuff for Panda and MvA. She can model as fast as she can sketch and produces these amazing mock-ups and models of the environments she's developing in conjunction with her paintings. Rachel would show a painting of the set she was designing, and then on top of that pull up a full model of the set so we could move around inside of it and really get a sense of how to shoot and stage things early in pre-production. Sets are usually designed with pretty obvious staging based on a couple of key angles, making for some beautiful but very obvious and theatrical staging. Sometimes that's good and usually looks very beautiful, designed, and epic, but what was so awesome about having Rachel's models to reference was that we could now balance that theatricality with a rarely found intimacy. Because of her we could go in at a very early stage and find intimate little out of the way corners or other parts of the sets to let things happen to make things feel more natural, and really help bring the world to life. That usually can't happen because the sets aren't normally built until after the scenes are done and edited, but she really added something new and opened new doors for the production. It felt like getting to go onto the set while you're still writing the script, giving you a really great sense of what the realized world would be and all the great ideas that come from visiting there. It was the difference between seeing pictures of the great wall, and actually being there. She would do that for our imagined locations. Rachel's work helped inspire a LOT of stuff for me on Panda I would never have found or thought of otherwise. I would work with her again in a heartbeat.", "I've had the honor of supervising Rachel on her first feature animation modeling job. From the first, she was hard worker and extremely professional. The longer we worked together the more I relied on her to take care of larger tasks both technically and aesthetically. Rachel has an amazing eye and strong organizational skills. The design work she is doing now is not only beautifully executed but it is created with a solid knowledge of the production pipeline. All this make Rachel a uniquely talented and production savvy artist.", and "I have enjoyed working with Rachel for almost two years now. Her contribution to Kung Fu Panda has been immense. The position of Visual development Modeler was created for Rachel to help me (the producion designer) create sets quickly in 3D. It has been so successful that other productions have taken the same strategy. She is also a great traditional designer bringing great ideas to the art dept."