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Jorge R. Gutiérrez (born January 1975) is a Mexican animator, painter, writer and director who created the multiple Annie Award- and Emmy Award-winning animated television series, ''El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera'' for Nickelodeon, and directed ''The Book of Life'', which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film. ==Biography== Born in Mexico City and raised in Tijuana, Gutierrez has completed various films, cartoons, illustrations and paintings exploring his love affair with Mexican pop and folk culture. Gutierrez attended the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), where he received his BFA & MFA in Experimental Animation under Jules Engel. There he created the 3D short ''Carmelo'', which won the 2001 Student Emmy Award in animation and was screened at various festivals around the world, including Kodak's Emerging Filmmakers Program at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. In 2000, Gutierrez worked under animation legend Maurice Noble, for the art direction of Chuck Jones' ''Timberwolf'' for Warner Bros. In 2001, he began creating ''Jorge Gutierrez' El Macho'', an animated web series for Sony Pictures. Gutierrez has also done character design on many animated series including Nickelodeon's ''ChalkZone'', as well as WB's ''¡Mucha Lucha!'', and Disney's ''The Buzz on Maggie'' for which he was nominated for a 2006 Annie Award in character design. As a writer, he's worked on Scholastic's ''Maya & Miguel'' as well as Disney's ''Brandy & Mr. Whiskers''. Gutierrez won two Annie awards (Best TV Animated show & Best TV Character Design) and one Emmy (Best TV Character Design) working on his passion project for Nickelodeon, ''El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera'', along with his partner, muse and wife, Sandra Equihua. He animated some of the sketches in Cartoon Network's ''Mad''. In 2012, Gutierrez directed at Reel FX a computer-animated adventure feature film with a Romeo and Juliet style love story set against a Mexican "Day of the Dead" backdrop. The film, with the official title ''The Book of Life'', was co-produced with 20th Century Fox Animation and was released on October 17, 2014. He earned his first Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Animated Feature Film in 2014,〔 only to lose the award to ''How to Train Your Dragon 2''. In February 2015, Reel FX and Gutierrez announced a multi-year, multi-picture deal. The terms and length of the deal were not immediately disclosed, but the first of the new films was announced as a "Untitled Kung Fu Space Western." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jorge Gutierrez (animator)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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