Kevin Adams & Joe Ksander
Manager: Tarik Heitmann, Sam Sleiman
KEVIN ADAMS & JOE KSANDER wrote and directed the animated feature film NEXT GEN which was Netflix's first original animated feature produced by Baozou.
Kevin Adams is a native of Toronto, Ontario, drawing robots and monsters in his basement since the 4th grade. He cut his teeth at Disney Feature Animation, where he worked on now-classic animated films like Hercules and The Emperor's New Groove. He went on to production design at Dreamworks Animation and ReelFX Animation Studios, and was the Creative Director of ARC Productions in Toronto.
Joe Ksander grew up in Silicon Valley, where his obsession with monsters and spaceships drove him into a career in visual effects. He animated on movies like The Chronicles of Narnia, Pacific Rim and Transformers: Age of Extinction. He also worked as an animation director at Walt Disney Imagineering, where he animated the full-scale Na'vi Shaman figure for Pandora -- the World of Avatar.
Kevin and Joe were finalists in the New Regency/Break Media science-fiction film contest, where they produced the sci-fi short film GEAR. They wrote and directed the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle short We Strike Hard for Nickelodeon Animation. NEXT GEN, which they wrote and directed, became Netflix's biggest animated feature and is defining their new direction.
Reels
Next Gen | Netflix Official Site
GEAR Short film
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
TMNT Summer Shorts- 'We Strike Hard & Fade Into the Night' - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Nick