What has Zach Gracia designed in toys and collectibles?

Character stylization systems for Disney and Pixar lines: Disney Doorables with Just Play, a Toy of the Year Collectible of the Year finalist; Toy Story Minis with Mattel, his first project at Disney Consumer Products; Pixar's Coco, where he brought a Mexican-American cultural lens into Pixar review — down to a hand-carved Pepita alebrije for EPCOT; plus View-Master, Incredibles, Cars 3 and character development work.

Toys & Collectibles — Zach Gracia

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Disney Doorables

Disney’s answer to the blind-bag boom: one stylization system that makes princesses, sidekicks and villains read as a single family at thumbnail scale.

RoleLead designer

FocusStylization system

PartnerJust Play

Scope3 waves, global

RecognitionTOTY finalist, 2019

Direction · drawovers, overlays and notes

Frozen chip-art drawover with red and blue revision notes — **Fig. 1.1 — Frozen chip-art notes**Drawover

Doorables label-art drawovers on playset and character art — **Fig. 1.2 — Label-art drawovers**Drawover

Pencil revision notes over Judy Hopps figure turnarounds — **Fig. 1.3 — Hopps · turnaround notes**Pencil

Ariel figure sculpt with red hair revision overlay — **Fig. 1.4 — Ariel · hair revision**Overlay

Baby Rapunzel figure sculpt with red revision overlay — **Fig. 1.5 — Baby Rapunzel**Overlay

Jubilena figure sculpt with red revision overlay — **Fig. 1.6 — Jubilena**Overlay

Aladdin overlays for Jafar figure sculpt — **Fig. 1.7 — Jafar**Overlay

Sculpt turnaround with red notes on antler and head shape — **Fig. 1.8 — Sven · sculpt notes**Overlay

Sculpt revision sheet with red notes for Dory figure — **Fig. 1.9 — Dory · revision round**Overlay

Little Mermaid playset vessel with drawover notes and film reference — **Fig. 1.10 — Mermaid vessel**Playset

Minnie Mouse house playset with blue revision notes — **Fig. 1.11 — Minnie’s house**Playset

Frozen accessory piece count, before and after overlays — **Fig. 1.12 — Frozen accessories**Before / after

Frozen playset color notes with Pantone callouts — **Fig. 1.13 — Frozen playset color**Pantone notes

Shelf · shipped

Disney Doorables Multi Peek package — **Fig. 1.14 — Multi Peek**Package

Disney Doorables lineup in front of the signature doors — **Fig. 1.15 — The family**Lineup

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Toy Story Minis

A 2-inch stylization built from nothing to stand apart from Funko, carried solo from model sheet through three production waves.

RoleLead designer

FocusSolo stylization

PartnerMattel

ScopeWaves 1–3

Format2″ blind bag

Direction · model sheets and callouts

Toy Story Minis Rex model sheet with render, 2015 — **Fig. 2.1 — Rex model sheet**2015

Toy Story Minis Buzz Lightyear model sheet with render, 2015 — **Fig. 2.2 — Buzz model sheet**2015

Toy Story Minis Bullseye model sheet with render, 2015 — **Fig. 2.3 — Bullseye model sheet**2015

Toy Story 4 model sheet — Gabby Gabby and Benson in side, front and back views — **Fig. 2.4 — Gabby Gabby & Benson**Toy Story 4 · model sheet

Toy Story 4 model sheet — Bunny and Ducky in side, front and back views — **Fig. 2.5 — Bunny & Ducky**Toy Story 4 · model sheet

Bo Peep concept design with color callouts — **Fig. 2.6 — Bo Peep concept**Production overlay

Slinky Dog stylization callouts — **Fig. 2.7 — Slinky Dog callouts**Stylization

Twelve Alien face expression options — **Fig. 2.8 — Alien · 12 expressions**Options

Toy Story Mini singles with Pixar expression notes — **Fig. 2.9 — Pixar notes round**Before / after

Concepts for Toy Story Mini vehicles — **Fig. 2.10 — Vehicle concepts**Playsets

Shelf · shipped

Mattel Toy Story Minis playset with finished figures — **Fig. 2.11 — Andy’s room**Playset

Toy Story Minis figures on a stacked display — **Fig. 2.12 — Wave lineup**Figures

03

Pixar’s Coco

A line built on Día de los Muertos — from figures to Mattel’s Miguel guitar — where cultural authenticity was treated as a design requirement and carried into every Pixar review.

RoleLead designer

FocusCultural voice

PartnerDisney · Pixar

ScopeGlobal retail

PressLife at Disney, 2022

Direction · studies, sketches and overlays

Revised pencil sketches of Dante, Ernesto and Héctor — **Fig. 3.1 — Revised sketches**Pencil

Pepita rough pencil sketch, side view — **Fig. 3.2 — Pepita · rough 1**Pencil

Pepita rough pencil sketch, roaring head — **Fig. 3.3 — Pepita · rough 2**Pencil

Pepita tonal sketch with wings — **Fig. 3.4 — Pepita · tonal**Pencil

Pepita alebrije mask color design — **Fig. 3.5 — Pepita mask**Color

Coco skeletal hand exploration studies — **Fig. 3.6 — Hand explorations**Study

Mama Coco sculpt sheet with revision notes — **Fig. 3.7 — Mamá Coco**Sculpt notes

Mamá Imelda figure before and after sculpt overlay — **Fig. 3.8 — Mamá Imelda**Before / after

Tío Oscar and Felipe before and after sculpt overlay — **Fig. 3.9 — Tío Oscar & Felipe**Before / after

Shelf · shipped

Coco figures — Héctor, Miguel and Dante — in papel picado packaging — **Fig. 3.10 — Figure line**Packaged

Mattel Coco guitar — white skull-headstock guitar with lit-up gold scrollwork — **Fig. 3.11 — Miguel’s guitar**Mattel · lights & sound

Mattel Coco guitar in its retail package — **Fig. 3.12 — Guitar · package**Mattel · retail

Coco Skullectables Series 1 — **Fig. 3.13 — Skullectables**Series 1

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Coco-inspired alebrijes

Coco’s characters as true Oaxacan alebrijes — hand-carved, hand-painted wood figures, Pepita among them, sold at the EPCOT Mexico pavilion where carvers worked in the shop.

RoleArt director · Lead designer

CraftOaxacan wood carving

RetailEPCOT Mexico pavilion

Alebrijes · carved for EPCOT

Hand-carved and painted Oaxacan alebrije of Pepita from Coco — winged, horned and covered in dot and dash patterning — **Fig. 4.1 — Pepita**Carved & painted wood

A carver at work beside a display of alebrije carvings in the EPCOT Mexico pavilion — **Fig. 4.2 — Carver in the shop**EPCOT Mexico pavilion

Close view of the alebrije carving display at EPCOT — **Fig. 4.3 — The display**EPCOT Mexico pavilion

Alebrije carvings arranged across a table in the EPCOT Mexico pavilion shop — **Fig. 4.4 — The table**EPCOT Mexico pavilion

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View-Master · Disney100

Two Disney100 sets built around a Mickey-faced viewer — the Mickey Mouse Deluxe set (Steamboat Willie, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Mickey’s Birthday) and the Disney Collector Set, nine reels of Cinderella, Winnie the Pooh and Peter Pan.

RoleCategory manager · Art director · Lead designer

PartnerView-Master

ProgramDisney100

Disney100 · viewers, reels & scenes

View-Master 3-D Disney Collector Set — Mickey viewer with metallic glasses and nine reels: Cinderella, Winnie the Pooh and Peter Pan — **Fig. 5.1 — Disney Collector Set**9 reels · metallic glasses

View-Master 3-D Mickey Mouse Deluxe set — Mickey viewer, Disney100 reel case and three reels — **Fig. 5.2 — Mickey Mouse Deluxe set**Viewer · reels · case

Mickey View-Master viewer on a yellow block with reels and retro reel packets for Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh and Cinderella — **Fig. 5.3 — Reels & packets**Styled

View-Master reel scene — Captain Hook and Tinker Bell over a map by candlelight — **Fig. 5.4 — Hook & Tink**Reel scene · Peter Pan

View-Master reel scene — Peter Pan bursting into the Darling nursery with his shadow behind him — **Fig. 5.5 — The nursery**Reel scene · Peter Pan

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The Incredibles Minis

Sculpt overlays for the Incredibles 2 Mini Supers — drawing over each turnaround until the family reads as one set at an inch and a half, then out to shelf as blind-box collectibles.

RoleLead designer

FocusSculpt overlays

IPDisney · Pixar

Development · sculpt overlays