John Aoshima, is a Feature Director and an Emmy and Annies nominated Television Director known for Disney’s hit series, Gravity Falls, Duck Tales and the long running Primetime series, American Dad! on Fox and Hulu. John was born in Japan and raised in Southern California. He has turned his passion for art and film into earning a BFA degree in Character Animation at CalArts. In his early career, he has excelled in various roles on television series such as Futurama, The Simpsons, Avatar the Last Airbender, Star vs the Forces of Evil and Ducktales. John shifted his focus to feature films and served as Head of Story on Laika’s BAFTA winning stop-motion feature, Kubo and the Two Strings. He later joined Netflix Animation in 2018 as Sequence Director on the Emmy winning Limited Series, Maya and the Three. Then transitioned Co-Directing on the animated feature, Ultraman: Rising in partnership with Tsuburaya Productions and ILM. John currently divides his time adapting popular IPs and developing his own series and feature projects.