Elsa Garagarza

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
* "Bending Battle" (short)
* "Swamp Skiin' Throwdown" (short)
* "School Time Shipping" (short)
=== Background supervisor ===
20 episodes and 3 shorts
* "Bending Battle" (short)
* "Swamp Skiin' Throwdown" (short)
* "School Time Shipping" (short)
=== Background painter ===
20 episodes
=== 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. 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. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
== Trivia ==
* Garagarza's favorite Avatar character is Sokka.
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