Live action / animation / CGI Movies
The Voyage of Dr. Dolittle
2020, Post Vis Lead story Artist, Voyage Productions LTD / Universal Pictures
Aladdin
2019, Lead Story Artist, Sunlit/ Disney
Artemis Fowl
2019, Lead Story Artists, Time Freeze Productions Limited/ Disney
Mowgli: The legend of the Jungle
2018, Lead Story Artist, Rock Lock Films/ Warner Bros/ Netflix
Kiss me First
2018, Head of Story, Netflix/ Channel 4 / Axis Animation
Hunger Games
2012, Animation Director, Storyboards, Design, gross worldwide box-office: 694 mln USD, Lionsgate
Attack the Block
2011, Design Development, Rough Guide Animation, Double negative
Prince of Persia, Sands of Time
2010, Lead Story Artist. Concept Designs, Disney / Double Negative
Sorcerer’s apprentice
2010, Lead Story Artist, Concept Designs, Disney/ Double Negative
Animated movies
Hyde
animation feature - in development, Director, Storyboard/Designs Production design, Stardust Pictures
Sherlock Gnomes
2018, Story Artist, August Street Films/ Paramount Pictures
Peter Rabbit
2016, Episodic director on 56 x 11 minute episodes on series two, CG Series CBBC, Nick Junior and Silvergate Media/Brown Bag Films
Iconicles
2011, Series Director, designs and storyboards, tv series CBBC/ Creative Media Ventures
Gnomeo and Juliet
2011, Storyboarding, Pointy Hat Productions/Miramax
Alex (stage show) with projected, animated elements
2009, Animation Supervisor, The Stage Play Limited
The Tale of Despereaux
2008, Storyboarding, Universal
Thomas and Friends
2008, Series Animation Direction - Dino Athanassiou Animation Direction/Designs/Storyboards Series 12, Responsible for introducing CG - Elements to the live action model shoot. Creating a new Hybrid of animation and live action, HIT Entertainment/Channel 5/Nitrogen Studios
Peter & The Wolf (Oscar 2008 for Short Animated Film)
2007, Lead Story Artist, Breakthru Films
Happily, N’ever After (animation feature film, producer John Williams, Shrek)
2006, Animation Director, Vanguard / BFC
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit
2005, Additional storyboarding, Aardman Studio/ DreamWorks SKG
Madagascar
2005, Storyboarding, DreamWorks
Shark Tale
2004, Storyboarding, DreamWorks
Sindbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
2003, Sequence Producing/Direction - Storyboarding, Animation and Clean-up, DreamWorks
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
2002, Sequence Producing/Direction Animation - Storyboarding, Animation and Clean-up, DreamWorks
The Road to El Dorado
2000, Sequence Producing/Direction Animation - Storyboarding, Animation and Clean-up, DreamWorks
Thorgal – animation series
Supervising storyboarding, Character designs
M.D.I. Productions, Paris
Rugrats the movie
1998, Storyboarding, Layouts, Animation poses, Klasky Csupo, Nickelodeon
Space Jam, animation & live action cast: Michael Jordan
1996, Sequence director, storyboarding, designs and leica reel, animation, clean up FX, Warner Bros
All Dogs go to Heaven II
1989, Animation Direction (13’), Script Consultant, Storyboarding / Designs, Animation, clean up and FX, M.G.M. California
The legends of Treasure Island 2, animated series 13x 22
1996, Series Direction, Dino Athanassiou/ Simon Ward Horner Developing and producing animated tv series; including scripts, voice direction, designs, storyboards, music and post production, Howling Wolf Productions ltd
Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
2002, Sequence direction, storyboarding, Designs and Timings, Miramax, Hyperion Studio
Asterix and Big Fight
1998, Animation, Gaumont Productions, Paris
Jetsons / Johnny Quest – tv series
1998, Animation Director, training and supervising animators in Philippines, Hanna Barbra, Philippines
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Animator, Bagdasarian Productions, USA / Korea
The B.F.G. feature film
1987, Lead Animator, Cosgrove Hall/ Manchester
Asterix and Caesar
1985, Lead Animator, Gaumont Productions, Paris
AWARDS
Peter Rabbit
2015 and 2016 nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding episodic direction
The legends of Treasure Island 2, animated series 13x 22
1996, British Animation Awards for Children’s choice for best series
VARIOUS
Dino Athanassiou is an Animation Director in the classic Hollywood tradition of “rich character performance”, both traditionally and computer animated. Dino has built a reputation for creating world-class designs, storyboarding, and theatrical animation for the US majors. His work includes sequence direction, animation and clean up for DreamWorks, Direction, Design, Storyboard, Leica Reel, Animation, Clean up and FX for Warner Bros.
Besides direction, design and storyboard work, Dino also is heavily involved in live action, working for companies such as Double Negative – on Disney / Jerry Bruckheimer’s live action blockbusters Prince of Persia (budget 200 Mill. USD), Sorcerer’s Apprentice (budget 150 Mill USD). In 2011 Dino completed directing the CG Animation on Lionsgate’s Hunger Games (694 Mill. USD box office; 78 Mill. USD budget) supervising the main climatic sequences in the film.
Dino was also responsible for completing the episodic direction on 56 x 11 shows on the 2nd season of award-winning CGI series Peter Rabbit, for which he got 2 EMMY Award nominations for outstanding direction in an animated tv series program. He won a BAA for directing The Treasure Island – children tv series in 1996.
Dino has experience working on production budgets in the range from 5 Mill. USD – 250 Mill USD.
The latest project he was working on was Disney’s Aladdin (Dir. Guy Ritchie) where Dino was lead story artist on the sequence “friend like me”. Film is in post-production currently; the premiere is in 2019.