Simon J Smith is a 32 year computer graphics veteran with over 39 combined years of film, television, and post production experience in telling engaging stories with compelling characters. He is currently Executive Producer on the CG animated Batman series "Batwheels" at Warner Bros Animation.Simon is known for his directing feature animation work at PDI/DreamWorks Animation, where he directed the feature film “Penguins of Madagascar” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and John Malkovich, and previously the Golden Globe nominated “Bee Movie” starring Jerry Seinfeld and Rene Zellweger. (Combined box office of over $660,000,000) During his stay at PDI/Dreamworks, which he called his home for over 19 years, he created the Layout Pipeline for the second ever computer animated film “Antz”, and served as Head of Layout (cameraman/cinematographer) for that film, and was also the Head of Layout for the first ever animated Oscar winning film from PDI/DreamWorks “Shrek”. Then he was chosen to start directing projects for DreamWorks which included “Shrek Imax” the first stereoscopic 70mm film for DW, the Universal theme park ride “Shrek 4D” which ran for 14 years, and short films, including “Far Far Away idol” starring Simon Cowell, and “The Button of Doom” starring Will Ferrell. After his DreamWorks tenure he was asked by Unity Technologies to write and direct three real-time short films for Disney TVA. Titled “Baymax Dreams” the shorts delve into mind of the “Big Hero 6” character Baymax, and creating a future pipeline using the Unity engine, ask the question “Do androids dream of electric sheep?”Well apparently they do. “Baymax Dreams” has went on to win a 2019 Technical Emmy.Before coming to the United States in 1997, Simon was Directing, Editing, Animating or FX Supervising at top London post production houses including The Mill, Framestore, VTR, SVC TV, and ad agency BBDO for 16 years on various projects, commercials, or music videos including Apple, Nike, Honda, Pepsi, VW, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, George Michael, to name but a few.Over his career, he has learned to lead teams of all sizes (from 10 to 600) with vision and purpose, to partner with creative minds in the fields of artistry, technology, and business, to solve story problems big and small, in order to bring characters to life. His goal is to get involved with a story telling team that he can bond with, and to share his narrative story/character experience to create something emotionally fulfilling. Something that they will remember. And that the team can be more than proud of.