About Christopher Dias
Canada
Chris has over 15 years of Animation experience and a graduate from Sheridan's 2006-07 Digital Character Animation course, Canada. At Sheridan, He won the DreamworksAnimation SKG Scholarship for best student character animation for his student projectthat year. He later ended up working at DreamWorks-Technicolor, India as a CharacterAnimator on Mr.Peabody and Sherman and The Annie award winning TVseries, Dragon:Riders of Berk a spin-off of the Block Buster hit How to train yourDragon. He has also worked at WETA Digital, New Zealand, asa Character Animator on Alvin and the Chipmunks:The Road Chip, Disney's StevenSpielberg directed 'Big Friendly Giant' and Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles 2 at ILMSingapore. He is currently works as a Senior Animator at Axis Animation, Glasgow ontheir upcoming projects.His other credits include the Annie award nominated Halloween special 'ScaredShrekless' and Christmas Special 'Merry Madagascar' with MadagascarCharacters, Madly Madagascar, Madagascar 3: Europe's mostwanted at DreamWorks-India, The Incredible Hulk and The Love Guru at SohoVFX,Canada. Chris is a well rounded Animator, with experience in all formats of animation fromTV series to High bugdet Feature films, including VFX films. His passion for films andAnimation is contagious and He is only eager to share it.
