---
name: "Ryan O'Loughlin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ryan-oloughlin"
fi1m_id: "ryan-oloughlin"
imdb_id: "nm0641675"
tmdb_id: 1455563
wikidata_id: "Q140689698"
roles: ["Storyboard artist","Director"]
born: "24 December 1977"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-01T00:10:08.524013+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."
---

# Ryan O'Loughlin

## Identity

Ryan O'Loughlin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ryan-oloughlin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ryan-oloughlin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0641675
- **TMDB ID:** 1455563
- **Wikidata ID:** Q140689698
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140689698, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0641675/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1455563

Storyboard artist and director. Born 24 December 1977 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.

## Details

- **Work:** Storyboard artist, Director
- **Born:** 24 December 1977, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q140689698, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0641675/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1455563

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*BLUE EYE SAMURAI*](https://film.one/tv/blue-eye-samurai.md) (79)

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

## Biography

Ryan O'Loughlin is an Australian animation director, storyboard artist and character designer. Born on 24 December 1977 in Newcastle, New South Wales, he began working in the industry in the late 1990s as an animator.

He directed three episodes of the Netflix animated series *Blue Eye Samurai* (2023). He also contributed as a storyboard artist on the series and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation for his storyboard work on the episode "Hammerscale". Earlier credits include head of story on *9* (2009) and story artist or character designer roles on films such as *Rise of the Guardians* (2012) and *Wish Dragon* (2021).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *BLUE EYE SAMURAI* (2023), Fi1m 79, Storyboard Artist, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/blue-eye-samurai.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *BLUE EYE SAMURAI* (2023), series, Storyboard Artist, Director — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/tv/blue-eye-samurai.md)
- *Extinct* (2021), Character Designer
- *Wish Dragon* (2021), Story Artist
- *Smallfoot* (2018), Sequence Supervisor
- *Rise of the Guardians* (2012), Additional Storyboarding, Character Designer
- *The Lion King 1½* (2004), Unit Manager

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/ryan-oloughlin