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Biography
Enrique Gato Borregán (born 26 April 1977 in Valladolid, Castile and León) is a Spanish filmmaker and 3D/2D animation designer known as the creator of Tadeo Jones. With this character he won two Goya Awards.
Biography
Gato was born in Valladolid and he grew up in Madrid. Since his childhood he was attracted by animation and technology. When the first personal computers arrived, he began to make his own videogames with an Amstrad CPC 6128.
In 1995 he started his informatic engineering studies at the university, where he learned to develop game engines for preview his own works and understand how to make the 3D geometric previews of several software like Maya, 3D Studio Max or Softimage.
While he was in university, he was hired by Artek, a company specialized in computer graphics. Once in there, he learned to work with programs such as TrueSpace and LightWave 3D, at the same moment Pixar were releasing the first works of CGI animation.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Work | Details Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Tad Jones: The Hero Returns | Co-director | Lightbox |
| 2015 | Capture the Flag | Director | Lightbox |
| 2012 | La mano de Nefertiti | Executive producer | El Toro, Lightbox, Ikiru |
| 2012 | Tad, The Lost Explorer | Director | El Toro, Lightbox, Ikiru Goya at Best New Director |
| 2007 | Tadeo Jones y el sótano maldito | Director | La Fiesta PC |
| 2006 | Commandos 3 | Animator | Videogame Pyro Studios |
| 2005 | Praetorians | Animator | Videogame Pyro Studios |
| 2004 | Tadeo Jones | Director | La Fiesta PC |
| 2002 | Superlópez | Director | Personal project |
| 2001 | Bicho | Director | Personal project |
| 1999 | Pepe pescador | Animatic | Short film to Daniel Martínez Lara |
| 1997 | Starship Trappers | Director | Personal project |
| 1994 | Toy Jístory | Director | Personal project |