You just stepped into… The Elephant Den! The home of Dennis Fries.

You just stepped into… The Elephant Den! The home of Dennis Fries.

I’m a Los Angeles-based creative and technical leader in the animation industry. I have a diverse background in production, post-production and retakes, with a wide range of experiences leading teams and working my trunk off to put out fires, meet deadlines and produce high-quality animation.

Check out my reel above and credits below. I’ve worked on…

An International Phenomenon:

Rick and Morty *[adult swim]*

**Technical Director / Pipeline TD** for the past two season (6/7) of the hit series, co-leading a team of Harmony animators and compositors through large-scale rewrites, recasts and overhauls in post production. Between seasons, I provided cross-department support and oversaw the onboarding of our new animation vendor, Lighthouse Studios.

Anthology Favorites:

*Love, Death + Robots*
*“Kill Team Kill”* (Netflix)

**Technical Director / Compositor** on an adrenaline-feuled, blood-soaked episode of the popular series. I led a team to establish the final look and composite of the short, and developed a unique pipeline to deliver ACES color space with individual color mattes with Adobe CC.

The Boys: Diabolical *(Amazon)*

**Technical Director / Compositor (Retakes)** for the anthology series with a unique style and method of animation for each episode. Established in-house animation retakes pipeline for overseas studios working on paper and delivering digital animation cels.

Hidden Gems / Cult Classics:

Pantheon *(AMC+)*

**Technical Director / Compositor** developing looks, effects and final polish for a beautiful sci-fi anime series.

Tigtone *[adult swim]*

**Animation/Rigging Supervisor** and pipeline development for the most insane show you’ve probably never heard of.

Late Night Cartoons:

Our Cartoon President *(Showtime)*

**Character Animation,** layout and compositing for fast-paced, topical series.

The Late Show w/ Stephen Colbert *(CBS)*

**Character Animation, Layout and Compositing** on three different (Emmy winning!) animated Christmas specials.

Washingtonia *(Comedy Central)*

**Digital Animation Lead** trained and led a large team of animators, layout artists and compositors to complete grueling, feature-length movie the world will likely never see!

Animated Segments in Live-Action films and series:

Borat 2 (Amazon)

**Compositor** on animated sequence in Borat’s Subsequent Moveifilm. *Vereh nice!*

The Get Down *(Netflix)*

**Lead Animator** on 2D animation segments in Baz Luhrmann’s big budget Netflix spectacular.

Amend *(Netflix)*

**Animation & Compositing** for motion graphics segments in docu-series.

Mythic Quest *(Apple TV+)*

**Animation Retakes / Compositing** on animation season 2 opener narrated by Sir Anthony Hopkins.

Wholesome content I could actually share with my nieces and nephews:

Face’s Music Party *(Nick Jr)*

**Animation & Rigging** for pilot episode of preschool series.

Arlo the Alligator Boy (Netflix)

**Compositor / Retake Compositor** on a musical feature

We the People *(Netflix)*

**Compositor** for Emmy winning, “Outstanding Short-Form Program” produced by the Obamas.

Hi-Fi Rush *(Bethesda)*

**Compositor** for stylized video game cut scenes.

2D Digital Puppets for Live Animated Performances

Maury, Hormone Monster

from “Big Mouth” (Netflix)

Lieutenant Boimler

from “Star Trek: Lower Decks” (Paramount+)

*“Isolation”*

pilot pitch presentation for Netflix