Antonio Canobbio

Early Life
Antonio Canobbio was born in Poissy, France and grew up outside of Paris. His love for art started later in life when, at 16, when he thought drawing would make him "more interesting". He attended school for a year to study graphic design but dropped out. Instead, he started working at a car museum in Limoges, France at 19 doing car restoration on antique cars (this would later inspire his work on the Disney XD show, Motorcity. Ironically, his career with Disney began in France as a janitor at Euro Disney.)

Career
He began his animation career at Rooster Studios in Paris as a background layout artist. He freelanced for many studios in and around Paris for a few years before moving to Ellipsis Studios as a designer.

In 1998, he sent a fax to MTV in New York of a few of his drawings and was noticed by a young show creator, Chris Prynoski. He was hired as a layout assistant supervisor on MTV Downtown and moved to New York. There he thrived, working on shows such as Spy Groove, Sheep in the Big City, Courage the Cowardly Dog and Dora the Explorer.

In 2003, Prynoski called him from Cartoon Network in Los Angeles and convinced him to move again. He became the Design Supervisor for Cartoon Network's Megas XLR. At Cartoon Network, he also worked on Powerpuff Girls, Camp Lazlo, and My Gym Partner's a Monkey. At night, he worked at Prynoski's own fledgling studio, Titmouse, Inc. as they created various commercial and pilots as well as the opening title sequence for Avatar: The Last Airbender for Nickelodeon.

As Titmouse, Inc. grew, Canobbio left Cartoon Network to devote himself full-time as Art Director at the new studio. He worked on shows such as Tales of Dogg with Snoop Dogg and Metalocalypse. In 2006, after the first season of Metalocalypse, he took a break and went to Sony to work on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs as a Visual Effects Designer. When he returned to Titmouse, he was made a partner and Creative Director of the company.

Since then, he has worked on a slew of shows including Black Dynamite, Metalocalypse, Motorcity, a music video for Sound Garden, and China, IL.