Biography
Simon Otto is a Swiss director, animator and storyboard artist. Born in 1973, he grew up in the Canton of St Gallen and trained at Les Gobelins Animation School in Paris after studies in Switzerland.
He joined DreamWorks Animation in 1997, working on The Prince of Egypt, and spent over two decades there, serving as head of character animation on the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy. He left the studio in 2019 to pursue independent directing.
Otto has directed episodes of Dragons: Race to the Edge (2016), Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia (2016) and Love, Death & Robots (2021), as well as the Netflix series A Tale Dark & Grimm (2021) as supervising director and executive producer, and his feature debut That Christmas (2024).
