Hey I’m Michael. I’m an animator and director with 15 years of experience in the industry. I’ve worked at a bunch of cool places on a bunch of cool things. Some personal highlights:

• Conceived/pitched/directed Scrat Tales for Disney + (based on the birth of my son!)

• On Batwheels, supervised animation and directed episodes at the same time.

• Helped develop the animation style on The Peanuts Movie with an amazing team at Blue Sky.

• Taught myself Blender, made a short film in a year and collaborated with one of my favorite composers Batu Sener.

• Worked with great vendor studios across the world.

• Animated singing and dancing Trolls and Pandas doing kung fu.

• Drank at least 3 cups of coffee a day.

• Continuously working on personal projects to keep myself creatively fulfilled.

Feel free to reach out and connect!

mberardini.animation AT gmail.com