Animator Luis de la Rosa
Dead at 34 …
Hit By Train at Film Festival
Published
Luis de la Rosa — an animator with credits on big projects like “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” — is dead after he was hit by a train while attending a film festival in France.
Local newspaper Le Dauphine Libéré reported the fatal incident Friday … saying a locomotive struck a man wandering too close to train tracks in Annecy, a city near the French-Swiss border.
Emergency services were called to the train station … but they couldn’t save the man’s life.
The newspaper did not identify the man, but noted he wore credentials from the Annecy International Animation Film Festival … and the festival has now confirmed to Deadline that de la Rosa was the person killed.
De la Rosa got his start in animation back in 2016 … working on several episodes of the Nickelodeon show “Pig Goat Banana Cricket” before working on “My Little Pony: The Movie,” “Animaniacs,” “Space Jam: A New Legacy,” and ‘Spider-Man.’
He was reportedly at the film festival’s market — a place for animators to meet potential clients and keep up with industry pals — with his original project “Ash Raider World.”
Festival organizers told Deadline Artistic Director Marcel Jean will speak about de la Rosa during Saturday’s closing ceremony.
He was 34.
RIP