Chris Copeland

Director, DreamWorks Animation

Born and raised in Chicago, Chris Copeland was up at a time when graffiti, comics and animation were BOOMING in the 90's. Chris and his siblings used drawing to escape the gang violence and other harsh realities that were happening in Chicago during that time. Continuing to draw and create as an adult, Chris and his wife Shannon moved to LA in 2009 where he would break into Animation as Storyboard artist at Warner Bros Animation. After years of successfully navigating around the industry and learning storytelling at various studios including Marvel, Cartoon Network and Titmouse Animation to name a few, Chris' directorial debut would be on the hit Netflix show, "Kipo and The Age of Wonderbeasts" at Dreamworks. SkyBound came calling soon after with an offer to work on Robert Kirkman’s “Invincible” animated tv show for Amazon on which he would serve as a Co-Showrunner with his brother Justin for a year before they would both return to Dreamworks Feature animation as Co-Directors on a feature in Development as well as Co-Supervising Producers on 2 new TV Series in development at the studio.