---
name: "Ian Abando"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ian-abando"
fi1m_id: "ian-abando"
imdb_id: "nm2846274"
tmdb_id: 3907784
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-22T21:38:42.478129+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ian Abando

## Identity

Ian Abando

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ian-abando
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ian-abando
- **IMDb ID:** nm2846274
- **TMDB ID:** 3907784
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2846274/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3907784

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 2017–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 writing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 27 (1), 2020s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2846274/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3907784

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*INVINCIBLE*](https://film.one/tv/invincible-2021.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Ian Abando is an animation director and storyboard artist. He trained at the Art Center College of Design and began his career in feature animation, working as a story artist on films including *Despicable Me 2* (2013), *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2* (2013), *Minions* (2015) and *Spies in Disguise* (2019).

He has contributed to television series as a character designer on *Gravity Falls* (2012) and as a storyboard artist on *My Dad the Bounty Hunter* (2023) and *Blue Eye Samurai* (2023). Abando has directed episodes of *My Dad the Bounty Hunter* (2023) and *INVINCIBLE* (2021–), including several in seasons 2–4.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, amazon-invincible.fandom.com, gravityfalls.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1) — the average rests on these

- *INVINCIBLE* (2021), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/invincible-2021.md)

### Wrote (1)

- *The Emoji Movie* (2017), Fi1m 27, Story Artist — [page](https://film.one/film/the-emoji-movie.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *BLUE EYE SAMURAI* (2023), series, Storyboard Artist
- *My Dad the Bounty Hunter* (2023), series, Storyboard Artist, Director
- *DC League of Super-Pets* (2022), Story Artist
- *Ron's Gone Wrong* (2021), Additional Storyboarding
- *INVINCIBLE* (2021), series, Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/invincible-2021.md)
- *The Emoji Movie* (2017), Story Artist — Fi1m 27, [page](https://film.one/film/the-emoji-movie.md)
- *Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie* (2017), Additional Storyboarding
- *Minions* (2015), Additional Storyboarding
- *A Tale of Momentum & Inertia* (2014), as Settings
- *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2* (2013), Story Artist
- *Despicable Me 2* (2013), Story Artist

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