Nassos Vakalis is a Greek-American animator, storyboard artist and animation director. He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts in the USA. He worked as an animator, animation supervisor and storyboard artist for many Animation Studios such as DreamWorks Animation, Gaumont Animation, Warner Bros,  Rovio , Sony, Paramount, Sullivan-Bluth and Universal/Illumination. Nassos received  two EMMY award nominations, an EMMY award, a ANNY award nomination, a Méliès Silver Fantasy film Award nomination and an Oscars and BAFTA qualification for his work outside the studios.