Marcelo is an award-winning animator, director, and writer with more than 20 years of experience in the industry. A graduate of the Bellas Artes University in São Paulo with a bachelor’s in fine arts, Marcelo earned his animation certificate at Vancouver Film School and Animation Mentor. He went on to win several awards and international film festivals before earning a Masters in Visual Arts from SENAC.

Marcelo is the Co-Founder of Faculdade Melies, one of the most respected film colleges in Brazil with more than 6.000 alumni, and MrSolo Animation Studios. The latter responsible for creating and directing 3D and 2D animations for various advertising agencies, TV channels, and other media. MrSolo Animation Studios has partnered with clients such as Warner Brothers, Pepsi, VolksWagen, FIAT, Antarctica, Nestlé, Ambev, Mattel, Coca Cola, among others.

In 2012, Marcelo moved to Vancouver with his wife and two kids becoming a Canadian citizen a few years later. During this time, Marcelo worked on Emmy Winner Dreamworks/Netflix "Dinotrux" (2015), "Dinotrux Supercharged" (2017), Nickelodeon's "44 Cats" (2018) and "Blaze and the Monster Machines" (2014).

Marcelo has been working at Wildbrain since 2018 as an Episode Director. In his own time, Marcelo works on personal projects hoping to one day have the opportunity to tell his own stories.