Guillaume Cassuto is a French director, writer, and visual effects artist based in

London, England London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major s ...

. He is best known for being the creator and former showrunner of the

Cartoon Network Cartoon Network (often abbreviated as CN) is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. It is a part of The Cartoon Network, Inc., a division that also has the broadcasting and production activities of Boomerang, Car ...

animated series ''

Elliott from Earth ''Elliott from Earth'' is an animated television series created by Guillaume Cassuto, Mic Graves and Tony Hull for Cartoon Network. Produced by Cartoon Network Studios Europe, it premiered in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2021. In the United S ...

''. He is also known for his work on ''

The Amazing World of Gumball ''The Amazing World of Gumball'' is an animated sitcom created by Ben Bocquelet for Cartoon Network. The series concerns the lives of 12-year-old Gumball Watterson, an anthropomorphic blue cat, and adoptive goldfish brother Darwin, who attend ...

'' as a compositing supervisor and writer.

Career

After graduating from

Supinfocom Supinfocom (école SUPérieure d'INFOrmatique de COMmunication, roughly University of Communication Science) is a computer graphics university with campuses in Valenciennes, Arles (France) and Pune (India). History Founded in 1988 in Valencienne ...

, Guillaume Cassuto began his career working on commercials, short films, television shows, and music videos. He was a lighting and rendering artist for Picasso Pictures, alighting, rendering, and compositing technical director for Superfad, The Mill, and

Passion Pictures Passion Pictures is a British film production company established by Andrew Ruhemann in 1987. The company has studios in London, Melbourne, Paris, Toronto, and New York City. Film production The company's core business is in commercial and anim ...

, and a

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and rendering artist for

Nexus Studios Nexus Studios is an animation, film and interactive studio based in London and LA. It was founded in 2000 by Charlotte Bavasso and Christopher O'Reilly. Creating a range of both handcrafted and high-tech work, Nexus Studios has a team of product ...

. From 2011 to 2017, he worked as a background artist, compositing supervisor, and writer for the

series ''

''. Cassuto then left the show on October 27, 2017, and created the

animated series An animated series is a set of animated works with a common series title, usually related to one another. These episodes should typically share the same main characters, some different secondary characters and a basic theme. Series can have either ...

''. But as of the end of October 2019, Cassuto, due to a "mutual parting of ways" with Cartoon Network, left production and stepped down as showrunner.Twitte
"Today, "Elliott from Earth", the show I created, comes out in the UK. Although I left the production back in October 2019, I'm very proud of some of the episodes, and excited to see how they came out."
/ref> Cassuto is currently based in

. As of 2021, he is currently directing animation projects and music videos.

Filmography

Short films

Television

Music videos

Video games

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cassuto, Guillaume Living people British animated film directors British screenwriters British television directors Cartoon Network Studios people English animators French animators French animated film directors French emigrants to England French screenwriters French television directors Year of birth missing (living people)