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Enrico Casarosa (born November 20, 1971)[2][3] is an Italian-American storyboard artist, film director, and writer who works at Pixar. In 2012, he was nominated for an Academy Award for the animated short film La Luna. In 2022, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Luca (2021).[4]

Enrico Casarosa
Casarosa in 2014
Born	(1971-11-20) November 20, 1971 (age 50) Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Alma mater	School of Visual Arts Fashion Institute of Technology
Occupation	Film director, storyboard artist, writer
Employer	Pixar Animation Studios (2002–present)
Notable work	La Luna, Luca
Spouse	Marit Casarosa[1]
Children	Fio Casarosa

Early life

Casarosa was born in Genoa, Italy, and moved to New York City in his twenties, to study animation at the School of Visual Arts and Illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Career

He then worked as a background designer and storyboard artist on various Disney Channel TV series, including 101 Dalmatians: The Series and PB&J Otter.[5] Before joining Pixar, Casarosa worked as a storyboard artist at Blue Sky Studios on Ice Age.

In 2002, Casarosa joined Pixar, where he worked as a story artist on Cars, Ratatouille, Up and Cars 2.[6] In late 2004, Casarosa started a drawing marathon community called SketchCrawl and has been organizing the event ever since.[7] In 2011, his short film La Luna premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France,[8] and was released theatrically with Pixar's Brave in 2012.[4]

He then worked as head of story on The Good Dinosaur when Bob Peterson was directing the project beginning in 2011, and as a story artist on Coco.[9][10]

Casarosa most recently directed the Pixar Animation Studios film Luca, released on Disney+ on June 18, 2021, in the United States.[11][12][13] The film received generally positive reviews from critics for its nostalgic feel and acting and the film won an Hollywood Critics Association award for Best Picture.

In October 2022, Cararosa was confirmed to be developing another original Pixar feature film.[14]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Supervisor	Artist	Other	Voice	Notes
2002	Ice Age	No	No	No	Story	No
2005	Robots	No	No	No	Story	No		Uncredited [5] [15]
2006	Cars	No	No	No	Story	No
2007	Ratatouille	No	No	No	Story	No
2009	Up	No	No	No	Story	No
2011	Cars 2	No	No	No	Story	No
2015	The Good Dinosaur	No	No	Story	No	No		Additional
2017	Coco	No	No	No	Story	Yes		Pixar Senior Creative Team
2018	Incredibles 2	No	No	No	No	Yes
2019	Toy Story 4	No	No	No	No	Yes
2020	Onward	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Soul	No	No	No	No	Yes		Disney+ Original Films Pixar Senior Creative Team
2021	Luca	Yes	Story	No	No	Yes	Card Player / Angry Fisherman
2022	Turning Red	No	No	No	No	Yes
	Lightyear	No	No	No	No	Yes		Pixar Senior Creative Team

Shorts

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Artist	Producer
2011	La Luna	Yes	Yes	No	No
2016	Piper	No	No	Story	No
2021	Ciao Alberto[16]	No	No	No	Executive

Featurettes and TV

Year	Title	Role
1996	Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders	13 episodes Background design, storyboard revision
1997	The Secret of Anastasia	Direct-to-video Lead character model designer, background layout designer
	The Amazing Feats of Young Hercules
1997–1998	101 Dalmatians: The Series	23 episodes Storyboard artist, storyboard revision artist, designer
1998–2000	PB&J Otter	18 episodes Background artist, storyboard artist

Bibliography

• The Adventures of Mia, Volume One (2001) graphic novel
• Fragments (2001) art book with Ronnie Del Carmen
• The Adventures of Mia, Volume Two (2004) graphic novel
• Fragments Intermezzo (2004) art book
• Flight, Volume One (2004) part of a larger comic anthology
• Three Trees Make a Forest (2007) exhibition art book with Ronnie Del Carmen and Tadahiro Uesugi
• Totoro Forest Project (2008) with Daisuke Tsutsumi, Ronnie Del Carmen, and Yukino Pang
• The Venice Chronicles (2008)
• Disney Picture Book: La Luna (2012) in support of La Luna
• Disney Pixar: The Art of Luca (2021) in support of Luca

Special projects

In 2008, Enrico Casarosa (along with Ronnie del Carmen, Daisuke Tsutsumi and Yukino Pang) initiated the Totoro Forest Project, a fundraising exhibition/auction to support the non-profit Totoro Forest Foundation.[17] This initiative also produced a corresponding art book reprinting the various pieces contributed and included the likes of James Jean, Charles Vess, Iain McCaig and William Joyce among others.[18]

References

External links

• Enrico Casarosa at IMDb

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Enrico Casarosa (Génova, 20 de noviembre de 1971) es un artista de storyboard y director de animación italiano que trabaja en Pixar.[1]

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