Cesar Santalo

Cesar Santalo is an award-winning visual communications professional, artist, animator and educator with extensive experience directing, creating and implementing a broad range of revenue-generating design and animation projects.

Over the past 20 years, he served as adjunct professor at Miami Dade College, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and University of Miami, teaching a variety of subjects from traditional and digital drawing to project budgeting and advanced animation.

Santalo also worked for Telemundo/NBC Universal on Quibi, a special project created by DreamWorks founder Jeffrey Katzenberg. Previously he held roles at Univision, including art director for corporate marketing, promotions and digital and art director for entertainment and programming. Santalo has illustrated, designed and animated live performances for shows such as the Latin Grammy's and Premio Lo Nuestro and for artists such as Calle 13, Carlos Vives, Cirque du Soleil, Gustavo Dudamel, Juan Luis Guerra and Marc Anthony. He also art directed all of the major title sequences for WStudios powered by Univision, including Amar a Muerte, La Bella y Las Bestias and La Piloto 2.

Santalo is currently pursuing a doctorate at St. Thomas University and has a Six Sigma Green Belt certification—a quality improvement process that trains people to analyze and solve problems.

• A.A., Miami-Dade College
• B.F.A. in drawing, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
• M.F.A., University of Miami