Carlos Baena

Animator/Filmmaker at NightwheelPictures - España

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 the Online School AnimationMentor as well as the Cloud based Virtual Platform Artella. Carlos currently lives in Los Angeles, California. www.carlosbaena.com