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<infobox> <image source="image" /> <title source="name"><default>Elsa Garagarza</default></title> <group> <header>Biographical information</header> <label>Full name</label> <label>Born</label> <label>Died</label> <label>First credit</label> </group> <group> <header>Further information</header> <label>Link(s)</label> </group> </infobox>Elsa Garagarza is a Mexican-born animator and storyboard artist who contributed to the backgrounds of numerous episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender and worked as an artist on two of the franchise's comics. She later returned to the Avatar franchise as a storyboard artist for five episodes of The Legend of Korra.
Avatar: The Last Airbender credits
Background layout
Background designer
| 27 episodes and 3 shorts |
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Appearances: 1
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Background supervisor
| 20 episodes and 3 shorts |
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Appearances: 1
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Background painter
| 20 episodes |
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Appearances: 1
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Storyboard artist
Comic artist
The Legend of Korra credits
Storyboard artist
Avatar: Braving the Elements credits
Guest
- 86. "Beautiful Design with Elsa Garagarza, Bryan Konietzko, & Angela Song Mueller"
Selected other credits
Television work
- Generator Rex (storyboard artist)
- Green Lantern: The Animated Series (storyboard artist)
- The Penguins of Madagascar (background layout designer)
Filmography
- Green Lantern: First Flight (2009; video - storyboard artist)
- Wonder Woman (2009; video - storyboard artist)
Biographical information
Elsa Garagarza was born in Monterrey, Mexico.[1] She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in the field of architecture from ITESM (Monterrey, Mexico) and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Academy of Arts University. She moved to the United States in 2001 in the hopes of finding a career in the animation industry and got her big break in 2004 when Nickelodeon hired her to work on Avatar: The Last Airbender.[2] She currently lives in Los Angeles, California.[3]