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