GABRIELE PENNACCHIOLI

Gabriele Pennacchioli (Origgio, 29 October 1961) is an Italian cartoonist, animator and story artist.
He graduated in Fine Arts and attended an animation school.
The passion for comics led him to make his debut very young: in 1980 he arrived at Diabolik, alternating himself with Sergio Zaniboni (a designer who is inspired by the declaration) in the pencil creation of the stories. In the same period he is also busy working for Il Monello and L'Intrepido, as well as working with the staff of Gianni Bono. Subsequently, his name also appears on Il Giornalino, where he alternates with Zaniboni in the Reporter Blues drawings. After taking care of the graphic restyling of Intrepido, in 1988 he moved to Corrier Boy and in 1990 to Sergio Bonelli Editore to design Dylan Dog and Martin Mystère.
These are his last comics appearances: Pennacchioli decided to move to London to devote himself to animation in a studio opened by Steven Spielberg in the late nineties, where he collaborated with Balto. His new activity led him to work in several studios around Europe: in Munich, for example, he made the short film The Shark and the Piano together with Alessandro Carloni, while again in London he animates the protagonist of the film Sinbad .
After this production he was drafted by Dreamworks, which deals with international hits such as Kung Fu Panda, Shrek and Lilo and Stitch.