Bryan Konietzko
Biographical information
First credit Family Guy (1999 - Storyboard cleanup, Character Designer)
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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 twelve episodes for the first book with forty more episodes planned.

Contents 1 Avatar: The Last Airbender credits 1.1 Writer 2 The Legend of Korra credits 2.1 Writer 2.2 Additional voice 3 Selected other credits 3.1 Television 3.2 Filmography 4 Biographical information 5 References 6 Comments

Avatar: The Last Airbender credits Edit

Writer Edit

• 101. "The Boy in the Iceberg"
• 102. "The Avatar Returns"
• 113. "The Blue Spirit"
• 213. "The Drill"
• 219. "The Guru"
• 320. "Sozin's Comet, Part 3: Into the Inferno"
• 321. "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.

The Legend of Korra credits Edit

Writer Edit

• 101. "Welcome to Republic City"
• 102. "A Leaf in the Wind"
• 103. "The Revelation"
• 104. "The Voice in the Night"
• 105. "The Spirit of Competition"
• 106. "And the Winner Is..."
• 107. "The Aftermath"
• 108. "When Extremes Meet"
• 109. "Out of the Past"
• 110. "Turning the Tides"
• 111. "Skeletons in the Closet"
• 112. "Endgame"

Additional voice Edit

• 109. "Out of the Past"  ^{(uncredited)[1]}

Selected other credits Edit

Television Edit

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

Filmography Edit

• The Last Airbender (2010 - executive producer)

Biographical information Edit

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 his site.

He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Lisa, and his dog, Gunther. He has a nephew named Rohan after whom the second son of Tenzin and Pema is named.

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