Enrico Casarosa
Enrico Casarosa recently made his directing debut with the short film, "La Luna," which will screen with the Disney•Pixar feature film, "Brave," in 2012.
Casarosa began working at Pixar as a story artist on "Cars" and the Academy Award-winning feature "Ratatouille." Casarosa's next project was as story artist on Disney•Pixar's Academy Award-winning feature film Up.
As a story artist, Casarosa creates visual sequences from the script; he also generates new ideas and gags, and provides feedback regarding the plot, characters and overall story of the film. With help from story artists, the film's director finds the story they want to tell and the best cinematographic way to tell it.
Casarosa found early influences in Hayao Miyazaki's work and grew up watching Miyazaki's television series in Italy. Born and raised in Genoa, Casarosa 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.
Before coming to Pixar, Casarosa worked as a storyboard artist at Blue Sky Studios on Ice Age and Robots. He also worked as a background designer and storyboard artist for a number of Disney Channel Television Series' including 101 Dalmatians and PB&J Otters.
