Paolo Cogliati is a character animator and storyteller originally from Rome, Italy. He moved to Tokyo, Japan at the age of eight and lived there for the next eleven years of his life. After graduating from high school, he traveled to the USA to attend Ringling College of Art and Design, creating the short "Serial Taxi" for his graduation film. Additionally, he attended Gobelins l'ecolee de l'image's competitive advanced animation workshop in 2011. He graduated from Ringling College with a BFA in Computer Animation in 2013.