Simon J. Smith

Simon J Smith Personal Bio Simon J Smith is an award winning writer/director and 30 year computer graphics veteran with over 38 combined years of film, television, and post production experience in telling engaging stories with compelling characters. He is known mostly for his directing feature animation work at PDI/DreamWorks Animation, directing the feature film "Penguins of Madagascar" starring Benedict Cumberbatch and John Malkovich, and previously the Golden Globe nominated "Bee Movie" starring Jerry Seinfeld and Rene Zellweger. After his DreamWorks tenure he found himself at Unity Technologies writing and directing three real-time short films for Disney. Titled "Baymax Dreams" the shorts delve into mind of the "Big Hero 6" character Baymax, and creating a future pipeline using the Unity engine, ask the question "Do androids dream of electric sheep?" Well apparently they do. Simon J Smith won a 2018 Technical Emmy writing and directing "Baymax Dreams" During his tenure at PDI