Matt Braly
American animator, producer, director
Matthew Benjakarn Braly (born November 8, 1988) is a Thai-American animator, storyboard artist, writer, and director. He is best known as the creator and executive producer of the Disney Channel animated series Amphibia. He also worked as a director on Gravity Falls and Big City Greens.
Early life
Braly was born in Sacramento on November 8, 1988, and raised in Davis, while spending his summers, as a child, with his mother's family in Bangkok, Thailand. He also grew up in a bilingual household. As a child, Braly used to watch films such as Mortal Kombat (1995) because they were filmed in Thailand, as there was no Thai representation on television. He would later draw characters from franchises like Mortal Kombat and Sonic the Hedgehog.
At age 17, in 2006, he graduated from Christian Brothers High School, a private, Catholic, college-preparatory high school in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento. Prior to graduating, Braly was inspired to pursue a career in animation after a "career day" at high school, where a Pixar animator drew an image of Lumiere from Disney's Beauty and the Beast while talking about working on animation for a living. He started his career studying at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts); he graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
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