Kevin Hanna

Kevin Konrad Hanna (Arabic: كيفن حنا ) is an American film director, writer, and artist, known for his work in animation, comics, and video games. He directed the animated film The Clockwork Girl and the acclaimed documentary Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters, which received significant attention from media sources.

Forgoing a formal education in the arts, he started work in the video game industry when he was a teenager, where he worked on games for publishers such as Electronic Arts and Mattel.

He then left games for a stint in Hollywood where he worked on Roughnecks Starship Troopers, Max Steel and The Red Hot Chili Peppers music video for the single "Californication".

He then spent the following years at Microsoft becoming a founding member of the Xbox team, where he worked on Crimson Skies, Combat Flight Simulator and Shadowrun for the Xbox 360.

In 2006, he co-founded X-Ray Kid Studios with Jeff Matsuda, and Mike Christian.

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 multimedia company Frogchildren Studios, best known for publishing the comic book Sixteen Miles to Merricks and Creature Academy: The Legacy as well as producing animated music videos and commercials for 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.

Most recently, he directed the animated feature film, The Clockwork Girl., the Huey Lewis and the News music video "While We're Young",[10] as well as introductions for TV series The Magicians.[11]

In 2022, along with Emerald City Comic Con founder Jim Demonakos, he directed Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters a documentary about comic book creator Mike Mignola.