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Biography
Kevin Konrad Hanna, born in 1978 in Sunnyvale, California, is an American film director, writer and artist noted for his work in feature film animation, comic books, video games, and television.
History
Forgoing a formal education in the arts, he started work in the video game industry when he was 19, where he worked on games for publishers such as Electronic Arts and Mattel.
At 22, he left games for a stint in Hollywood where he worked on Roughnecks, Roughnecks Starship Troopers, Max Steel and The Red Hot Chili Peppers music video for the single "Californication".
He then spent the next five years at Microsoft becoming a founding member of the Xbox team, where he worked on Crimson Skies, Combat Flight Sim and Shadowrun for the Xbox 360.
At one point he was the author and artist of the webcomic Random Frog Children but has since discontinued that project.
He and his family then moved to California from Washington to work as an Art Director for Disney Interactive where he art directed and shipped over 50 titles.
In 2008, Hanna started the comic book publishing and multimedia company Frogchildren Studios, best known for publishing the comic book Sixteen Miles to Merricks and Creature Academy: The Legacy.
He currently lives in Washington working for Frogchildren Studios, an animation studio where he worked as a creative and artistic director on Google Lively, Kinect for Xbox 360, Disney XD and more. On September 16, 2008, he was a keynote speaker at Game Developers Conference where he was the first to speak publicly on Google Lively, and announced Google's gaming intentions.
He recently completed directing the animated feature film, The Clockwork Girl.
Film credits
- The Clockwork Girl (2014) -director/creator
TV credits
- Max Steel (2001)
- Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles (1999)
Comic book credits
- Frogchildren - creator/writer/artist (webcomic, 2005)
- Sixteen Miles to Merricks - editor (Frogchildren Studios, 2008)
- Clockwork Girl - co-creator/writer/artist (HarperCollins, 2011)
- Arcana Studio Presents #6: "Creepsville" (with Bill Rude, Chris Wyatt and Brandon Graham, Arcana Studio, 2009)
- All-Star Western#1 - color assists (DC Comics, 2011)
- Creature Academy - creator/writer/artist (Frogchildren Studios, 2013)
- Harley Quinn #28 - artist (dream sequence with Moritat) (DC Comics, 2016)
Video game credits
- 2003 Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, 3d artist (Microsoft Game Studios)
- 2005 Shadowrun, 3d artist (Microsoft Game Studios)
- 2007 Disney’s Princess: Royal Adventure, art director (Disney)
- 2007 Disney's Chicken Little: Ace in Action, art director (Disney)
- 2007 High School Musical: Sing It!, art director (Disney)
- 2007 Dance Dance Revolution Disney Channel Edition, art director (Disney)
- 2007 Disney's Meet the Robinsons, art director (Disney)
- 2007 Pirates of the Caribbean, art director (Disney)
- 2007 Google Lively, creative director, art director (Google)
- 2010 ESPN on Xbox Live, creative director, art director (Microsoft Game Studios)
- 2012 Ruby Blast, art director (Zynga)
- 2013 Puzzle Charms, art director (Zynga)
- 2016 Plants vs Zombies: Heroes, art director (PopCap Games, Electronic Arts) (with Jordan Kotzebue, Chris Furnis and Stephen Byrne)
Recognition
- In 2008, Kevin Hanna received a Moonbeam Award for Best Graphic Novel award for The Clockwork Girl,.
- In 2008, The Clockwork Girl won Graphic Novel of the Year at Book Expo America by ForeWord magazine.