Mexican Animator Luis De La Rosa Dies in Accident While Attending Annecy Festival

Luis De La Rosa, a Mexican animator whose work appeared on high-profile animated features, has died in an accident while he was attending the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France, Deadline reported on June 26, citing local coverage from Le Dauphiné Libéré.

Deadline said De La Rosa was in his 30s and died as a result of the accident in France while participating in the Annecy festival, which runs in early summer and draws international filmmakers, studios, and industry professionals.

The animator had been credited on projects including Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, one of the 2023 installment in Sony’s Spider-Verse franchise, and on My Little Pony: The Movie. Deadline described him as a “rising” animator, reflecting his expanding role in widely distributed animated studio productions.

Annecy is organized as a major industry gathering focused on animation craft, screenings, and professional networking. De La Rosa’s death, as reported, adds to the festival’s attention on the people behind animation pipelines, including artists working on large-scale, globally released titles.

Le Dauphiné Libéré’s reporting, as summarized by Deadline, did not resolve all public questions about the circumstances of the incident in the material Deadline provided, including specifics of where the accident occurred and what authorities had concluded at the time of publication.

In the wake of the death, the next steps for De La Rosa’s body of work will likely fall to the production credits and rights holders already tied to completed releases, while any ongoing or future projects associated with him would be addressed through standard studio and crew processes. Public details about those arrangements were not included in the Deadline account.

Representatives for De La Rosa’s credited projects, as well as festival organizers and the local authorities handling the accident, would typically be the sources for any official confirmation of the cause of death, timelines for family notification, and any statements about the investigation. Those updates were not included in Deadline’s initial report.