Enrico Casarosa

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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)

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Enrico Casarosa  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: 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@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.vfxconnection.com  
  2. See pixartimes.com
  3. See ONE, ひ と つ, Enrico Casarosa on maverixstudios.blogspot.com
  4. 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