Bryan Konietzko

Bryan Konietzko is an American animation director. He is the co-creator and executive producer of the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra.

Writer

 * 1.01 "The Boy in the Iceberg"
 * 1.02 "The Avatar Returns"
 * 1.13 "The Blue Spirit"
 * 2.13 "The Drill"
 * 2.19 "The Guru"
 * 3.20 "Sozin's Comet, Part 3: Into the Inferno"
 * 3.21 "Sozin's Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang"

He is also credited as Co-creator and Executive Producer for all sixty-one episodes, Title Designer for sixteen, Character Designer for thirteen, Art Director for nine, and Storyboard Artist for one.

Television work

 * Invader ZIM (storyboard artist)
 * Mission Hill (assistant director, storyboard artist)

Personal life
Bryan Konietzko was born in 1965. Konietzko graduated from Roswell High School in Roswell, Georgia, north of Atlanta, and then went on to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998.

Career
He has also worked as a character designer at Film Roman for Family Guy and as Assistant Director for Mission Hill and King of the Hill. He was a Storyboard Artist and Art Director for the Nickelodeon animated series Invader Zim. He keeps an online photo journal, which he updates regularly. Konietzko also has a band for which he has released several albums, including Our Ancestor's Intense Love Affair and At Night, Under Artificial Light.

In a 2010 interview the president of Nickelodeon, Cyma Zarghami, confirmed that Bryan Konietzko and Avatar: The Last Airbender co-creator Michael Dante DiMartino are developing a new series for the network, called The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra.