Born on the Canary Islands and raised in Madrid, Carlos Baena came to the United States in 1994. He's worked at Industrial Light & Magic and Pixar Animation Studios, on films such as Jurassic Park III, Star Wars: Ep II, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, Wall-E and Toy Story 3. For his work in the film Cars, Carlos received a 2007 Annie Award nomination for Best Character Animation. Carlos also directed the acclaimed live-action short films "Play by Play" (2011) and MarketSt (2015). From 2013-2016 Carlos developed Feature Animation content at Paramount Pictures and served as Character Director at the Robotics Studio Anki on the First AI Toy "Cozmo". In 2017, Carlos was Supervising Director on an Upcoming Animated Anthology. He is also Co-Founder of AnimationMentor, the Online Animation School as well as the Cloud based Virtual Platform Artella. Carlos just completed his first Animated Shortfilm "La Noria" and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. For more information, check out his Web site: http://www.carlosbaena.com