Guido Quaroni

Guido Quaroni began his career at Pixar Animation Studios in January 1997 He worked for two years in modeling rigging and shading for Toy Story 2 and then went on to work in effects for the film Quaroni later became the sequence supervisor in the shots department for Monsters Inc where he worked on hair and effects technology From there he continued to work with the Software Research and Development team of which he was the leader for the assetshading pipeline and later on lead of the Production Engineering team In January 2007 Quaroni went on to work as supervising technical director for the Academy Awardwinning feature film Toy Story 3 Quaroni was responsible for defining the various technologies used in the film establishing the production pipeline and managing the various technical teams He also served as a Supervising Technical Director on Monsters University In May 2011 Quaroni was promoted to Vice President of Software RD In this role he oversees the studio graphics and animation software including the Academy Awardwinning animation software Presto Quaroni has also contributed his voice talents to the Golden Globe winning film Cars as the voice of Guido the Italian forklift Quaroni returned as the voice of Guido in both Cars 2 in 2011 and Cars 3 in 2017 Quaroni dreamt of working at Pixar from the moment he saw the short film Luxo Jr He was passionate about computers engineering graphics and animation and Pixar seemed to be the ideal place for him Prior to working at Pixar Quaroni worked for a software house in Italy specializing in graphics and visualization applications running on NeXT computers Born and raised in Italy Quaroni did his studies in Milan and in 1993 moved to Vicenza a town close to Venice IMDb Mini Biography By Pixar Official site