Shane Acker

Shane Acker

Shane Acker, born in 1971 in Wheaton, Illinois, USA, is an American director, screenwriter and producer.

In 1999, he directed his first animated short film the hangnail. In 2005, he directed the animated short film robot 9, which was shortlisted for the best animated short film award of the 78th Academy Awards. In 2009, he directed the animated film robot 9. In 2017, he directed the animated film "beats of burden".

Character experience

Shen Aker studied in the Department of architecture and art of the University of Florida and the Department of architecture of the University of California, and finally received his doctorate in animation and art from UCLA. In his early years, Shen Aker once aspired to be an architect, but in the end he chose the road of film. In 1999, he directed his first animated short film "the hangnail"; later, he directed the animated short film "Mr. grenade's amazing talent". In 2003, he worked as a visual effects artist for the fantasy adventure movie Lord of the rings: the return of the king. In 2005, he directed the animated short film robot 9, which was shortlisted for the best animated short film award of the 78th Academy Awards. In 2009, he directed the animated film robot 9, which was voiced by Elijah Wood, John C. Riley and others. The plot of the film is expanded from the original short film. It tells the story of nine robots with different personalities and abilities who cooperate with each other and fight with each other, finally defeating the evil ruling forces and making the world reborn. In 2017, he directed the animated film "beats of burden" with Daniel Radcliffe's voice.

Main works

Directing works

Screenwriter's works

Visual effects

Award winning record

Character evaluation

Shen Aker's understanding of Engineering enables him to freely show the realistic and grand fantasy world in his works. His art design skills enable the characters in the film to present different shapes. The animated film "robot 9" not only inherits the robot image composed of zipper, button, pin and linen head in the short film, but also adds various huge monsters and complex mechanical landscape with ingenuity, which fully reflects Aker's solid art and architectural skills, presenting a science fiction world full of steam aesthetic pleasure and rough primitive flavor Incisively and vividly. With his excellent engineering design and art talent, Aker creates a vast and wild world, and the action scenes make people sweat (mtime time online review).