Simon Otto

Simon Otto was born on Jun 12, 1973 in Switzerland. Simon Otto's big-screen debut came with The Prince of Egypt directed by Brenda Chapman in 1998. Simon Otto is known for How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World directed by Dean DeBlois, Jay Baruchel stars as Hiccup and America Ferrera as Astrid. Simon Otto has got 1 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Simon Otto achieved is Visual Effects Society Awards. The upcoming new movie Simon Otto plays is Rumble which will be released on Dec 15, 2021.

Simon Otto is a Director, Animator and Story Artist. Most recently, Simon directed an episode for Volume Two of the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots called The Tall Grass while also developing several other Netflix related projects. Simon is known for his work as the Head of Character Animation of all three How to Train Your Dragon films for DreamWorks Animation. In addition to overseeing the animation of the films, Simon has been instrumental in developing the look of the characters, their personalities, and the overall style of the animation as well as working in the story department on the second and third film. Born and raised in Gommiswald, just outside of Zurich in Switzerland, Simon began his career carving commercial snow sculptures in nearby resort towns such as Arosa and St. Moritz and drawing news cartoons for his hometown newspaper, "Die Suedostschweiz". After completing a banking apprenticeship, he redirected his attention to the arts and attended the F&F Schule für Experimentelle Gestaltung in Zurich. Following that, he left Switzerland to study at the prestigious Les Gobelins Animation School in Paris, France. After graduating from Les Gobelins, he received additional animation training through an internship with Walt Disney Feature Animation in Paris. He has been an important part of DreamWorks' character animation team ever since he joined the studio in 1997 to work on their first animated film, The Prince of Egypt. He worked as a Supervising Animator on many of the studio's animated features both in 2D and in CG, including Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and the Aardman co-production, Flushed Away. Simon also worked as a character designer on the hit comedy, Over the Hedge and on the How to train Your Dragon movies.