Animator and director Ignacio Ferreras counts as career highlights his work on Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist (2010) and storyboarding Asterix and The Vi-kings (2004). Since 2005 he combines his occupation with lecturing and teaching at the Animation Workshop (Denmark), the National Film School of Denmark, and at Volda University College (Norway). In 2002 he made the short film How to Cope with Death, awarded with the “Jean-Luc Xiberras” prize for Best First Short Film at Annecy 2003, as well as 22 other international awards.