Enrico Casarosa
Enrico Casarosa (born October 19, 1970 in Genoa ) is an Italian animated filmmaker and illustrator.
Life
Casarosa grew up in Genoa and initially studied engineering at the University of Genoa . He moved to Milan , where he attended illustration courses at the Istituto Europeo di Design . In 1994 he went to New York City . Here he studied animation at the School of Visual Arts and illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology , but did not graduate.
Casarosa worked as a background designer and storyboard artist for various television series on the Disney Channel and eventually began working as a storyboard artist at Blue Sky Studios . He was so involved in the films Ice Age and Robots . He joined Pixar in January 2002 and worked as a storyboard artist on the films Cars and Ratatouille . Later he was involved in the creation of Above , also as a storyboard artist . His directorial debut was the seven-minute Pixar short film La Luna , which had its world premiere on June 6, 2011 at the Festival d'Animation Annecy .
Casarosa also published several books with his own illustrations, including the comic series The Adventures of Mia .
Casarosa is married with one daughter and lives in San Francisco .
Filmography (selection)
- 2002: Ice Age
- 2005: Robots
- 2006: Cars
- 2007: Ratatouille
- 2009: Up (Up)
- 2011: La Luna
- 2016: Piper (short film)
- 2017: Coco - more alive than life! (Coco)
Publications (selection)
- 2003: Fragments
- 2005: Sketch Crawling. Watercolors and comics of varing degrees of stillness
- 2006: Three trees make a forest
- 2008: The Venice Chronicles
Awards
- 2012: Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film for La Luna
Web links
- Enrico Casa Rosa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Enrico Casarosa's blog
- Biography of Enrico Casarosa on pixartimes.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Enrico Casarosa ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at vfxconnection.com , accessed January 24, 2012
- ↑ See pixartimes.com
- ↑ See ONE, ひ と つ, Enrico Casarosa on maverixstudios.blogspot.com
- ↑ Alessandra Vitali: Remy, il topolino da Oscare la favola di Enrico Casarosa on repubblica.it of February 2, 2008 (Italian), accessed on January 24, 2012
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Casarosa, Enrico |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian animation filmmaker |
DATE OF BIRTH | 19th October 1970 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Genoa , Italy |