Spyros Tsiounis - Animation Production, Creative Direction, Story and Art Development

Side profile of a young man wearing a black fedora hat, gray turtleneck sweater, and black jacket against a dark background.

I am a producer who collaborates with creators and media businesses to help them tell ambitious visual stories, cost-effectively, by assembling talented teams that combine narrative craft, robust operations, and technological innovation.

Recent projects I have produced and led development for include The Walking Dead, Raymond Feist’s The Riftwar Cycle and a new sci fi series called Emergence by David S. Goyer (Dark Knight, Man of Steel, Blade, Foundation).

At studios like Dreamworks and Lucasfilm, and tech startups backed by Andreessen-Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, I've led forward-thinking efforts in distributed animation pipelines, game engine integration, pre-visualization, interactive media, and modern intellectual property applications.

I understand professional creators because I have been one myself. My credits as a story artist include films like Coraline, Kung Fu Panda, and Bee Movie, as well as TV shows like Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

I went to film school at the University of Southern California and graduated in Character Animation from the California Institute of the Arts.

Above all, I am a nerd who hosts movie nights, plays collectible card fantasy games, debates lore, and carries around a sketchbook full of observations from the world around me and inside my head.

Promotional poster for Star Wars: The Clone Wars featuring animated characters with lightsabers and ships in space.
A stylized illustration of a girl with blue hair, wearing a red striped shirt and jeans, standing with arms crossed, casting a shadow with button eyes and an updo hairstyle.
Poster for the animated film 'Kung Fu Panda' featuring a panda in a kung fu stance against a red and orange background with Chinese landscape elements and the movie title.
Poster for animated movie "Shrek the Final Chapter 3D" showing Shrek with a big smile, and a character with bright red hair, surrounded by other characters including witches, some of whom are green and others black, set against a blue sky background with clouds.
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Movie poster for 'Bee Movie' featuring a close-up of a young woman with wide eyes and open mouth on the right and a cartoon bee in the center. The poster includes text with the names Jerry Seinfeld and Renée Zellweger at the top, the title 'BEE MOVIE' in large yellow and orange letters, and the release date November 2 at the bottom.
Movie poster for The Rugrats Movie, featuring animated characters from Rugrats riding on a giant mechanical dog with a landscape background and trees.
Cover art for Disney's animated movie 'Stillwater' showing a peaceful outdoor scene with a pond, trees, colorful flowers, and a small wooden bridge. A large panda bear with three children on and around it stand on the bridge gazing at the sky.
Silhouettes of diverse Star Wars characters, including humans, aliens, droids, and dogs, watching a fleet of spaceships approaching a large planet in the background, with the title 'Star Wars Rebels' at the bottom.
Animated characters including a white monster in a tuxedo, a dog in a tuxedo, a woman with red hair, and a mouse on a hoverboard, riding through water with a city backdrop, from the movie "Flushed Away."
Movie poster for 'Galaxy Quest' featuring three characters standing against a starry background, with the title in purple letters.

Clients

Nickelodeon logo with orange paint splatter background.
Paramount logo with mountain outline and 22 stars encircling the top.
Diagram of the solar system with the sun at the center and the planets orbiting around it.
Apple logo followed by the text 'tv+' in black.
A black and white illustration of a microscope with a laptop computer next to it, set on a plain background.
A bicycle with a basket parked on a sidewalk with buildings in the background.
A detailed diagram of a human skeleton with labeled bones.
Stylized black and white logo with the words 'VULCANIZE LTD' in bold, vintage font, with decorative lines underneath.
Drawing of two bee characters, one with orange and black striped body, wings, and smiling face; the other with yellow and black striped body, wings, and smiling face, against a beige background.