Carlos Saldanha is a Brazilian animator, director, producer, and voice actor of animated films who worked with Blue Sky Studios until its closure in 2021.
10 Facts About Carlos Saldanha
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Carlos Saldanha was the director of Ice Age: The Meltdown, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Rio, Rio 2, Ferdinand, and the co-director of Ice Age and Robots.
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Carlos Saldanha was born in Brazil, growing up in Marechal Hermes, Rio de Janeiro.
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Carlos Saldanha entered that program to major in computer animation, saying, "I knew from the first day in class that this was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life".
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Carlos Saldanha graduated from SVA with a master's degree in Computer Art in 1993.
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Carlos Saldanha, who felt that Rio had never been fully portrayed on film, felt a responsibility to travel to the city with the other animators so that they could accurately capture Rio's unique environment and habitats.
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In October 2012, Carlos Saldanha signed a five-year exclusive deal with 20th Century Fox to develop and produce animated and live-action projects.
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Carlos Saldanha is directing for Fox a live-action adaptation of Royden Lepp's graphic novel Rust: Visitor in the Field, which he planned to make before Ferdinand.
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Carlos Saldanha was developing an animated feature film based on a book Alienology from the Ologies fantasy book series.
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Carlos Saldanha and his wife, mathematician Isabella Scarpa, initially lived in a studio apartment in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, but after their second daughter was born, they moved to Hoboken, New Jersey, where they had friends.