Ramiro Lopez Dau is a director and animator of

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and

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. Lopez Dau's career began at Ilion Animation Studios in Madrid, Spain, where he started as an animator in early 2003, and quickly became the Supervising Lead Animator in the production of ''

Planet 51 ''Planet 51'' is a 2009 computer-animated science fiction comedy film directed by Jorge Blanco and co-directed by Javier Abad and Marcos Martínez, from a script by Joe Stillman, based on an original idea by Javier Abad, Jorge Blanco, Marcos ...

''. In 2009, he joined Pixar Animation Studios where he worked on such films as '' La Luna'', ''

Cars 2 ''Cars 2'' is a 2011 American computer-animated Spy film, spy comedy film produced by Pixar, Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It is the sequel to ''Cars (film), Cars'' (2006), the second film in the Cars (franchise), ''Cars'' f ...

'', '' Brave'' and ''

Monsters University ''Monsters University'' is a 2013 American computer-animated monster comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed by Dan Scanlon (in his feature directorial debut) and produced by Kori ...

''. During that time, he was also a Pixar press spokesperson for Spanish-speaking countries. In September 2014, Lopez Dau joined Oculus Story Studio, Facebook's experimental Virtual Reality studio, which had been announced at Sundance Film Festival in January 2015. At Story Studio he wrote and directed ''

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'', the Studio's second production. He was also the Animation Supervisor on all Story Studio productions: ''Lost'', ''Henry'', ''Dear Angelica'' and the adaptation of Neil Gaiman's ''Wolves in the Walls'', which was cancelled after the Studio's unexpected shutdown in May 2017. After Oculus Story Studio, Lopez Dau joined Facebook where he is Creative Director of an experimental VR project. In 2015, Lopez Dau was named one of the "20 most influential Latinos in tech" by CNET, and in September 2016, ''Henry'' was awarded a Primetime Emmy Award for Original Interactive Program, becoming the first Virtual Reality movie to receive this award.Wattercutter, Angela
"Oculus’ Virtual Reality Film Henry Just Won an Emmy"
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'', San Francisco, 8 September 2016. Retrieved on 15 May 2017.

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