---
name: "Simon Otto"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/simon-otto"
fi1m_id: "simon-otto"
imdb_id: "nm2259362"
tmdb_id: 1447381
wikidata_id: "Q90884100"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "12 June 1973"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-22T03:30:14.348983+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."
---

# Simon Otto

## Identity

Simon Otto

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/simon-otto
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** simon-otto
- **IMDb ID:** nm2259362
- **TMDB ID:** 1447381
- **Wikidata ID:** Q90884100
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Otto, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90884100, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2259362/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1447381

Director. Born 12 June 1973 in Switzerland.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 12 June 1973, Switzerland
- **Active:** 1998–2019
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 7: 1 directing, 6 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 74 (1), 2000s 59 (4), 2010s 79 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Otto, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90884100, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2259362/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1447381

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia*](https://film.one/tv/trollhunters-tales-of-arcadia.md) (80)

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

## 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).

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

## On Fi1m (7)

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

- *Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia* (2016), Fi1m 80, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/trollhunters-tales-of-arcadia.md)

### Crew (6)

- *How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World* (2019), Fi1m 78, Animation — [page](https://film.one/film/how-to-train-your-dragon-the-hidden-world.md)
- *Kung Fu Panda* (2008), Fi1m 77, Animation — [page](https://film.one/film/kung-fu-panda.md)
- *Bee Movie* (2007), Fi1m 55, Animation — [page](https://film.one/film/bee-movie.md)
- *Flushed Away* (2006), Fi1m 64, Supervising Animator — [page](https://film.one/film/flushed-away.md)
- *Shark Tale* (2004), Fi1m 40, Animation — [page](https://film.one/film/shark-tale.md)
- *The Prince of Egypt* (1998), Fi1m 74, Animation — [page](https://film.one/film/the-prince-of-egypt.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

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

- *That Christmas* (2024), as Additional Voices (voice) · Director
- *A Tale Dark & Grimm* (2021), series, Executive Producer
- *Love, Death & Robots* (2019), series, Director
- *How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World* (2019), Animation — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/how-to-train-your-dragon-the-hidden-world.md)
- *Bird Karma* (2018), Animation
- *Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia* (2016), series, Director — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/trollhunters-tales-of-arcadia.md)
- *Home* (2015), Supervising Animator
- *How to Train Your Dragon 2* (2014), Storyboard Artist — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/how-to-train-your-dragon-2.md)
- *Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury* (2011), Storyboard
- *Book of Dragons* (2011), Animation
- *Legend of the BoneKnapper Dragon* (2010), Supervising Animator
- *How to Train Your Dragon* (2010), Animation — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/how-to-train-your-dragon-2010.md)
- *Kung Fu Panda* (2008), Animation — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/kung-fu-panda.md)
- *Bee Movie* (2007), Animation — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/bee-movie.md)
- *Flushed Away* (2006), Supervising Animator — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/flushed-away.md)
- *Over the Hedge* (2006), Art Department Manager — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/over-the-hedge.md)
- *Shark Tale* (2004), Animation — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/shark-tale.md)
- *Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas* (2003), Animation
- *Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron* (2002), Animation
- *The Road to El Dorado* (2000), Animation
- *The Prince of Egypt* (1998), Animation — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/the-prince-of-egypt.md)
- *Les oiseaux* (1997), Director

## Gallery

- ![Simon Otto](https://film.one/media/person/677532/gallery-31b997a5a255.jpg) Simon Otto — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Simon_Otto%2C_ThatXmasBFILFF191024.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![That Christmas Premiere - BFI LFF - Royal Festival Hall - Saturday 19th October 2024](https://film.one/media/person/677532/gallery-78dbef8424da.jpg) That Christmas Premiere - BFI LFF - Royal Festival Hall - Saturday 19th October 2024 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/ThatXmasBFILFF191024_%2889_of_119%29_%2854100648404%29.jpg/1280px-ThatXmasBFILFF191024_%2889_of_119%29_%2854100648404%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![That Christmas Premiere - BFI LFF - Royal Festival Hall - Saturday 19th October 2024](https://film.one/media/person/677532/gallery-806c0b22023b.jpg) That Christmas Premiere - BFI LFF - Royal Festival Hall - Saturday 19th October 2024 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/ThatXmasBFILFF191024_%2888_of_119%29_%2854100648464%29.jpg/1280px-ThatXmasBFILFF191024_%2888_of_119%29_%2854100648464%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![That Christmas Premiere - BFI LFF - Royal Festival Hall - Saturday 19th October 2024](https://film.one/media/person/677532/gallery-bd4ed4a02f3c.jpg) That Christmas Premiere - BFI LFF - Royal Festival Hall - Saturday 19th October 2024 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/ThatXmasBFILFF191024_%28110_of_119%29_%2854100308766%29.jpg/1280px-ThatXmasBFILFF191024_%28110_of_119%29_%2854100308766%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![That Christmas Premiere - BFI LFF - Royal Festival Hall - Saturday 19th October 2024](https://film.one/media/person/677532/gallery-a13d07f51912.jpg) That Christmas Premiere - BFI LFF - Royal Festival Hall - Saturday 19th October 2024 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/ThatXmasBFILFF191024_%2890_of_119%29_%2854100564323%29.jpg/1280px-ThatXmasBFILFF191024_%2890_of_119%29_%2854100564323%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![That Christmas Premiere - BFI LFF - Royal Festival Hall - Saturday 19th October 2024](https://film.one/media/person/677532/gallery-fa75ec5e5430.jpg) That Christmas Premiere - BFI LFF - Royal Festival Hall - Saturday 19th October 2024 — Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/ThatXmasBFILFF191024_%2896_of_119%29_%2854100648114%29.jpg/1280px-ThatXmasBFILFF191024_%2896_of_119%29_%2854100648114%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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