Alessandro Carloni
Alessandro Carloni is an Italian-born animator who became a mainstay animator and story artist at DreamWorks Animation after making his feature debut as an assistant animator on the German movie, The Fearless Four (1997) and then a lead animator on the Dutch family adventure movie, Help! I’m a Fish (2000). Carloni made his debut as a co-director/story developer/animation director/supervising effects animator with co-director Gabriele Pennacchioli of the short animated film, The Shark and the Piano (2001), produced by Munich Animation in Germany.
Carloni joined DreamWorks Animation in 2002, for which he was lead animator on Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) and Shark Tale (2004) (on which he was also a story developer), and then shifted into an impressive run as story artist as well as animator on DreamWorks’s First Flight (2006), Over the Hedge (2006), Kung Fu Panda (2008) and How to Train Your Dragon (2010), Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), The Croods (2013) and How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014). Carloni made his first animated feature as co-director (with Jennifer Yuh Nelson), the DreamWorks Animation sequel, Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), starring the voice cast of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, James Hong, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bryan Cranston, J.K. Simmons and Kate Hudson, and which grossed a strong $521 million globally for distributor 20th Century Fox (Worldwide ex. China)/China Film Group (China) (based on estimated costs).
Alessandro Carloni returned to his previous position as lead storyboard and story artist on the DreamWorks Animation sequel, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019), directed and written by Dean DeBlois, co-starring voice actors Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, F. Murray Abraham, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kristen Wiig and Kit Harington, and earning four times estimated costs for Universal Pictures with a $540 million return. Carloni was co-director/co-writer (with Erica Rivinoja) of the long-in-the-making Dr. Seuss adaptation and his first feature for Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, The Cat in the Hat (2026), starring Bill Hader, Matt Berry, Quinta Brunson, Xochitl Gomez, Giancarlo Esposito and America Ferrera, and which was released wide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Alessandro Carloni Movies
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- 2026 |
The Cat in the Hat
Meet the Cat in the Hat you don't know in an all-new, epic adventure where mischief, magic and mayhem reign supreme.
- 2016 |
Kung Fu Panda 3
Continuing his "legendary adventures of awesomeness", Po must face two hugely epic, but different threats: one supernatural and the other a little closer to home.
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