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Liron Topaz
Liron Topaz is an award-winning director and supervising animator, and former Animation Department Chair at DreamWorks Animation. Liron worked on DreamWorks Animation’s most icon…
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Liron Topaz is an award-winning director and supervising animator, and former Animation Department Chair at DreamWorks Animation. Liron worked on DreamWorks Animation’s most iconic franchises, including Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, and The Bad Guys. He began his career after studying at Ringling College of Art + Design, where he was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to intern at Sony Pictures Imageworks. He later joined Sony, contributing to Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, before becoming a key creative force at DreamWorks Animation. His directorial debut, Bilby, premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, where it received multiple awards and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. He later directed DreamWorks’ The Bad Guys: Little Lies and Alibis, which screened in theaters in January 2025. Most recently, he wrote and directed Saba, a poetic animated film that will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2026.
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2026
Forgotten Island
Movie Animation Supervisor
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2026
Saba
Movie Director
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2025
The Bad Guys 2
Movie Animation
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2025
The Bad Guys: Little Lies and Alibis
Movie Director
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2024
Kung Fu Panda 4
Movie Animation
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2022
The Bad Guys
Movie Animation Supervisor
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2020
The Croods: A New Age
Movie Animation Supervisor
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2020
Bear With Me
Movie Thanks
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2019
Abominable
Movie Animation
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2019
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Movie Lead Animator
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2018
Bilby
Movie Writer
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2017
In a Heartbeat
Movie Thanks
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2016
Trolls
Movie Animation
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2016
Kung Fu Panda 3
Movie Lead Animator
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2014
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Movie Animation
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2013
The Croods
Movie Animation
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2011
Kung Fu Panda 2
Movie Animation
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2010
Alice in Wonderland
Movie Animation
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2009
This Side Up
Movie Director
