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BIOGRAPHY Leonardo Martin Campasso aka Leo Campasso is an Award-Winning Animation Director, with one Guinness record in his career. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in April 1988. At just 7 years old, he took his first steps in 2d animation in a self-taught and intuitive way. After his first steps in 2d animation on paper, and in the world's computer animation boom with macromedia flash (2000), he created his first independent content production company ''Enano Cartoons''. This project had more than 50 shorts entirely produced independently just by him. Counting experiences and creating common fantastic worlds for an 11-year-old boy. At the age of 17 (2006) he started his first job for a multimedia company called ADMOTION, making content (2 cutout animation series) for one of his platforms. At the same time that he begins to work, he begins his studies of traditional animation in a career dictated by ''HOOK UP ANIMATION'' (a recognized Argentine 2d animation production company ). Soon after, he began to work professionally as a 2d animator for ''hook up animation'', for clients such as Cartoon Network, Disney, Nickelodeon, Fox, ... In 2009 he decided to become independent and embark on a new path, his own animation studio for advertising. It was born ‘’ Leo Campasso Studio ’’ by the hand of his first professional short, ‘’ WILD WIND ’’ which has a great impact on the famous ''NEWGROUNDS'' flash animation portal, due to the pixelart technique used. He wins awards and recognitions at festivals such as PICTOPLASMA, ONE DOT ZERO, BAFICI, and his name begins to resonate in the most important animation portals in the world such as CARTOON BREW, CATSUKA, MOTIONOGRAPHER, STASH. 2010 he was involved in the creation of the pilot ‘’ Gluko & Lennon ’’ for the series finally called ‘’ Little big awesome ’’, produced between 2016 and 2018 by amazon prime. 2011 he produced his second professional short "Travelers", premiered at the Pictoplasma festival in Berlin. 2013, from the hand of Punga.tv and Nico Casavecchia, the production and realization of the most special 2d piece of his career began, a short for IBM, stopmotion animation of atoms, called ''A BOY AND HIS ATOM'' This animation was named GUINNESS RECORD in 2013 for being the smallest stopmotion animation ever. Between 2014 and 2017 he works for big brands like Mtv, Google, Coca Cola, Cartoon Network, Disney producing animations and commercials. 2018 Leo Campasso Studio moved from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Barcelona, Spain. After 12 uninterrupted years, and thousands of 2d and 3d productions on the way, he begins his new project called ‘’ Aura Studio ’’ a new production company fully focused on Advertising and Content . In 2021/22 Aura studio teamed up with Niceshit studio to create Blue Dog , an add for an Spanish beer. Check this Cartoon Brew Interview. 2022 An incredible year for Aura Studio, producing their 2 first professional shortfilms , the award-winning 'Tsunami Girl' & 'Home'. Finally, A Co-direction Aura + Bestia for ''Relevo'' has been officially selected in Annecy Festival 2023.