October 3rd, 2024.
BIO
El Guiri Studios (@elguiristudios) is an animation studio specializing in directing, developing and front-end production. We provide concept to final delivery services with a focus on quality and innovation.
A crew with experience in projects like Tales of Arcadia Trollhunters, Incredibles, Wall-e, Ratatouille, Cars, and many more. We recently finished a 14 minute shortfilm for Star Wars Visions S2, written and directed by Rodrigo Blaas and created from concept-to script-to screen here at El Guiri.
- RODRIGO BLAAS (Co-Founder | Creative Director): Rodrigo Blaas is an Emmy-winning director, producer and animator with over 20 years of experience. He worked on successful animated films such as Blue Sky Studios Ice Age or Pixar´s Finding Nemo, Ratatouille and The Incredibles. He also was the show runner on the Guillermo del Toro acclaimed series Trollhunters, for Dreamworks and Netflix, which won six Emmy awards. Rodrigo Blaas recently wrote and directed an original Star Wars short film for the series Visions, premiering on Disney+ in May 2023.
- JONATAN CATALÁN (Partner | D.P. & Look Dev Supervisior): Jonatan Catalán is an Emmy-winning look development supervisor, director of photography and cg supervisor with almost 20 years of experience. He has created unique looks in animation projects such as The Bad Guys, the Oscar-winning short film The Windshield Whipper, and recently the Star Wars short film from the Visions series. For the past decade, he worked the look identity of the main characters for leading companies including DreamWorks Animation, Netflix Animation, Paramount Animation or Mikros Animation.
