Enrique Gato Borregán (born 26 April 1977 in

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, Castile and León) is a Spanish filmmaker and 3D/2D animation designer known as the creator of ''

Tadeo Jones ''Tadeo Jones'' is a 2004 Spanish short animated film directed by Enrique Gato. It tells the story of Tadeo Jones, an adventurer who enters a pyramid where he finds a family of mummies. The project of this film was born when Gato wanted to make ...

''. With this character (including two CGI animated shorts and one animated feature) he won three

Goya Awards The Goya Awards ( es, Premios Goya) are Spain's main national annual film awards, commonly referred to as the Academy Awards of Spain. The awards were established in 1987, a year after the founding of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sci ...

.Enrique Gato, Goya al mejor director novel por la animación de "Tadeo Jones"

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2013, 18 February.Enrique Gato: Ganador del Goya al Mejor Director Novel
2013, 6 February.

Biography

Gato was born in Valladolid and he grew up in

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. Since his childhood he was attracted to animation and technology, especially action-adventure Hollywood movies from variety of filmmakers, including the works of Steven Spielberg. When the first personal computers arrived, he began to make his own videogames with an

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.Biografía de Enrique Gato
Hispavista.com.Entrevista: Enrique Gato, director de “Las aventuras de Tadeo Jones”: “Siempre me ha gustado Indiana Jones. Y creí que resultaría apetecible un personaje en el que se uniera acción y comedia a partes iguales”
Fila7.com Interview. 2013, 1 March In 1995 he started his Informatics Engineering studies at university,Enrique Gato, director de ‘Las aventuras de Tadeo Jones’, coordinador de Animación de Trazos
Panorama Audiovisual, 2013, 25 January. where he learned to develop game engines to preview his own works and understand how to make 3D geometric previews using several programs like

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and Softimage. While he was in university, he was hired by Artek, a company specializing in

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. Once in there, he learned to work with programs such as

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and

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, around the same time that

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was releasing its first works of CGI animation.

Filmography

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