Bryan Konietzko

Bryan Konietzko is an American animation director, best known as the co-creator and executive producer of the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. 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 were developing a new series for the network, called The Legend of Korra. The series premiered on April 14, 2012, running 12 episodes for the first season with forty more episodes planned.

Writer
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)

Biographical information
Bryan Konietzko was born in 1975. He graduated from Roswell High School in Roswell, Georgia, and then went on to graduate with honors from the Illustration Department of the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998.

His friend and fellow RISD alum, Michael Dante DiMartino, helped him get his foot in the door in the television animation industry. Konietzko worked alongside DiMartino at Film Roman Studios on Family Guy, Mission Hill, and King of the Hill. In 2000, he joined Nickelodeon to work on Invader Zim as a storyboard artist. He spent time in South Korea training the overseas animation crews and became the art director on the second season. Konietzko was then recruited by Nickelodeon to create an original series. He once again partnered with DiMartino, and together they created the animated martial arts saga Avatar: The Last Airbender, which told a continuous storyline through a trilogy of seasons.

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 addition to sharing executive producer duties with DiMartino on Avatar, Konietzko also served as the art director on the award winning series, designing the main characters and drawing from his experience as a landscape painter for their fantasy world's epic scope. For their new series, The Legend of Korra, Konietzko and DiMartino co-wrote all the scripts for the first season. Konietzko is also an electronic recording artist under the name Ginormous, and an avid nature photographer, showing his work on [bryankonietzko.com his site].

He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Lisa, and his dog, Gunther.