BRYAN ENGRAM | Director of “Tempest” 

CEO/CCO and Co-Founder of Brazen Animation, Bryan leads vision and overall studio creative direction.  Before co-founding Brazen, Bryan served as Director of Studio Animation for Reel FX Studios.  Bryan’s credits include the feature films The Wild, Everyone’s Hero, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Open Season 2, and Open Season 3.  He directed animation on the award winning Warner Bros’ Looney Tunes short films Coyote Falls, Rabid Rider, Fur of Flying, I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat, and Daffy’s Rhapsody.  His other short film credits include Dreamworks’ Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five, Blue Sky’s animated shorts Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas, and Robots: Aunt Fanny’s Tour of Booty, game cinematics for Halo 2 and Transformers: The Game, as well as commercial work for Dreamworks’ Shrek the Third, Bee Movie, Kung Fu Panda, and Madagascar 2.

In 2010, Bryan was nominated for a Visual Effects Society (VES) Award for “Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Short” for the work done on the Warner Bros’ short Coyote Falls. The short also garnered an Annie Nomination and short listed for the 2010 Oscars. In 2012, Bryan oversaw the Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem 3D Ride for Illumination/Universal Studios, which garnered both the Annie and VES Awards respectively.