To celebrate DreamWorks most highly anticipated and visually stunning sequel, How to Train Your Dragon 2, over 70 artists and employees from DreamWorks Animation Studio contributed their original works to this collection to help support charity. All items were created and curated by the artist and donated to bring awareness of the film and raise money for the Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. The DreamWorks Artist Collection, totaling 114 individual pieces, represent a wide range of sizes and formats and come to us from writers, directors, storyboard artists and employees at every level. ACME Archives offers reproductions of a select number of images on their website at www.acmearchivesdirect.com.

About the Artist: Simon Otto most recently served as head of character animation on How to Train Your Dragon  and How to Train your Dragon 2. Otto previously worked as an animator on the hit comedy Bee Movie, and as a supervising animator on the DreamWorks Animation/Aardman Features computer-animated comedy, Flushed Away.  He was a character designer on the hit 2006 animated comedy Over the Hedge, and served as an animator on the studio’s Academy Award®-nominated hit comedy, Shark Tale.  Prior to that, he worked as a supervising animator on the title character of Sinbad, as well as his crewmates Jin and Li, on the studio’s animated adventure tale, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.  Additionally, he worked as an animator on the lead character in the Academy Award®-nominated adventure, Spirit:  Stallion of the Cimarron, and also supervised the animation of the eagle in that film.  Otto began his career at DreamWorks in 1997, as an animator on the epic The Prince of Egypt, as well as the comedy adventure, The Road to El Dorado. Prior to joining DreamWorks Animation, Otto studied animation at the renowned Les Gobelins in Paris, France, and received additional training during an internship with Walt Disney Feature Animation in Paris.  He began his career in the arts industry as a snow sculpture artist and news cartoonist.

Dimensions: 10 x13 (11 1/4  x 14 1/4 Framed)

The piece comes framed in a black frame with a white matte and includes a Certificate of Authenticity. This is an original by the artist and is being auctioned to benefit the Children's Hospital Los Angeles.