Vakalis Nassos

Nassos Vakalis is a multiple Emmy award-winning animation director, studio supervisor, storyboard artist, and animation director. He was born and raised in Athens, Greece, and studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Over the course of his rich professional life he has worked on film animation in the most famous studios: DreamWorks Animation, Warner Bros, Gaumont, Paramount, Sullivan-Bluth, and Universal/Illumination. Nassos was one of the pioneers of digital storyboarding, and is also a director and creator in his own right. His allegorical short film "Dinner For Few" (2014) won over 78 international awards and qualified for the 88th Academy awards. Over the years, Vakalis has shared his time between Greece and the United States, but today lives in Los Angeles.