Biography

Dana Dorian is a multi BAFTA-winning director with over 25 years of animation directing experience. Born in Malaysia, raised in New Jersey, and trained as a portrait painter in New York, he has always been fascinated with the human condition and storytelling. After receiving a fine art degree in NY he moved to Scotland, Dundee, where he earned a Master's Degree in Fine Art . A few months later he saw Toy Story which inspired him to pursue a career in computer animation and film making.

In 1995 Dana was hired by a small CG animation company outside Glasgow where he learned to apply his painting and storytelling skills to computer animation. In Dec 1999 he co-founded Scottish based animation studio Axis Studios Group, which has since become one of the largest and most successful computer animation companies in the UK.

Dana's directorial work spans several different narrative-led styles across a variety of genres. Whether it's motion capture, key-frame animation, or a combination of the two he strives to tell emotionally charged stories with dark undertones of humor and preferably a twist. Recently he's contributed to the AAA story cinematics of Halo Inifinte, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, and directed/co-wrote the popular Nickelodeon series, LEGO City Adventures.
- IMDb mini biography by: Dana Dorian

Dana Dorian is a multi BAFTA-winning director with over 25 years of animation directing experience. Born in Malaysia, raised in New Jersey, and trained as a portrait painter in New York, he has always been fascinated with the human condition and storytelling. After receiving a fine art degree in NY he moved to Scotland, Dundee, where he earned a Master's Degree in Fine Art . A few months later he saw Toy Story which inspired him to pursue a career in computer animation and film making.

In 1995 Dana was hired by a small CG animation company outside Glasgow where he learned to apply his painting and storytelling skills to computer animation. In Dec 1999 he co-founded Scottish based animation studio Axis Studios Group, which became one of the largest computer animation company in the UK before closing in 2024.

Dana's directorial work spans several different narrative-led styles across a variety of genres. Whether it's motion capture, key-frame animation, or a combination of the two he strives to tell emotionally charged stories with dark undertones of humor and preferably a twist. Recently he's contributed to the AAA story cinematics of Halo Infinite, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, and was one of the showrunners for the first two seasons of the popular Nickelodeon series, LEGO City Adventures.
- IMDb mini biography by: Dana Dorian