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Guillaume Cassuto
Born
Guillaume Cassuto

Nancy, France
Alma materSupinfocom
Occupations
  • Director
  • writer
  • visual effects artist
Years active2007–present
Known for

Guillaume Cassuto is a French director, writer, and visual effects artist. He is best known for being the creator and former showrunner of the Cartoon Network animated series Elliott from Earth. He is also known for his work on The Amazing World of Gumball as a compositing supervisor and writer.

Career

After graduating from Supinfocom, 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, and a VFX and rendering artist for Nexus Studios. From 2011 to 2017, he worked as a background artist, compositing supervisor, and writer for the Cartoon Network series The Amazing World of Gumball. Cassuto then left the show on October 27, 2017, and created the Cartoon Network animated series Elliott from Earth.[1][2][3][4] 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.[5][6] Cassuto is currently based in London, England. As of 2021, he is currently directing animation projects and music videos.

Filmography

Short films

Year Title Role
2007 Doggy Bag Co-Director
2008 This Way Up Lighting Artist, Rendering Artist

Television

Year Title Role
2011–2017 The Amazing World of Gumball Writer, compositing supervisor, background artist
2021 Elliott from Earth Co-creator, writer, storyboard artist
2022 The Boys Presents: Diabolical Retake composite artist
2023 Scavengers Reign Compositor, 3D designer

Music videos

Year Title Role
2012 Rock It for Me Director, art director, storyboard artist, editor, production coordinator, CG supervisor, lighting artist, rendering artist, compositor[7]
2012 Architecture Animator, Post-Production
2018 Humility Compositor[8]
2023 Ticking Away Lead compositing artist

Video games

Year Title Role
2019 Wargroove Compositor (trailer)

References

  1. ^ Kidscreen "CN EMEA greenlights Elliott from Earth"
  2. ^ Cartoon Brew "‘Gumball’ Team In U.K. Will Produce New Cartoon Network Series ‘Elliott from Earth’"
  3. ^ Animation World Network "Cartoon Network Greenlights ‘Elliott From Earth’"
  4. ^ Collider "This Week in Animation: Netflix Sets 'ULTRAMAN' Series, 'Castlevania' Season 2 Date & More"
  5. ^ Twitter "Update: as of end of October, I am no longer the showrunner on Elliott from Earth, the show I created for Cartoon Network. Myself and CN have agreed a mutual parting of ways. I wish the team the best, and look forward to seeing the 20 eps of season 1 when it comes out next year."
  6. ^ Twitter "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."
  7. ^ Gràffica "Caravan Palace travels back in time to a Paris rescued from dreams"
  8. ^ Studio Daily "Gorillaz: Humility"

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