Rodrigo Blaas

Personal context

Summary

Spanish animator, director, and producer from Granada who spent years in U.S. feature animation (Blue Sky’s Ice Age; Pixar credits including Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up, Brave, and the short La Luna) before independent directing. His 2009 horror-fantasy short Alma led to a long collaboration with Guillermo del Toro as supervising director, showrunner, and executive producer on Netflix/DreamWorks’ Trollhunters and related Tales of Arcadia series, plus later work such as the Star Wars: Visions short Sith, story/producer credit on the conservation-themed kids film Ozi: Voice of the Forest, and development of the flamenco/Japan-inspired feature Duende at Madrid’s El Guiri Studios. Public interviews and social posts center on craft, visual storytelling, and franchise work, not party politics, DEI, or identity activism. The main political-adjacent record is Ozi, an eco kids adventure about deforestation and palm-oil habitat loss that he helped rewrite and discussed with conservation groups; that environmental message is real but sits beside an otherwise conventional animation career with no documented activist persona.