1. Matthew Benjakarn Braly is an American animator, storyboard artist, writer, and director.
18 Facts About Matt Braly
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Matt Braly is best known as the creator and executive producer of the Disney Channel animated series Amphibia.
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Matt Braly worked as a director on Gravity Falls and Big City Greens.
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Matt Braly started his career studying at the California Institute of the Arts; he graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
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Hirsch went to CalArts and, while they never studied together, Matt Braly liked his student films.
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Matt Braly credited Hirsch as the one who "taught [him] so much about storytelling, about developing characters and developing a world", as well as the one who inspired him to create his own show.
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In 2016, Matt Braly won an Annie Award for directing the Gravity Falls episode "Northwest Mansion Mystery".
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Matt Braly served as an in-house key animator for the closing scene for the episode "Not What He Seems".
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Matt Braly drew inspiration from video games such as The Legend of Zelda and Chrono Trigger.
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Matt Braly, who is Thai-American himself, made the choice of making the lead character Thai-American due to a wish to creating a Thai character, as there were few Thai lead characters in television series when he was a kid.
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Matt Braly considers the series finale "The Hardest Thing" to be his favorite episode.
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Matt Braly is currently working on multiple feature films, including a fantasy-adventure film for Sony Pictures Animation he is set to direct and co-write with longtime collaborator Rebecca Sugar; the film will center on an ill boy who travels to a spiritual Thai world.
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Matt Braly is supervising development on a series of shorts exploring social issues.
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In November 2024, Matt Braly responded to the reported shelving of an episode of Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, focusing on a transgender character, by Disney, calling it "absolute cowardice" when content like the episode is needed more now than ever, and said it was a "total breakdown" of the process.
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On January 31,2025, Matt Braly became a father as he and Bedrosian welcomed their first child, a boy named Alex.
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Matt Braly used to draw characters from franchises like Mortal Kombat and Sonic the Hedgehog.
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Matt Braly is a fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, and was inspired by the opening sequence in the first episode of the anime Sonic X for the climax of the Amphibia episode "True Colors".
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Matt Braly is a fan of the Disney series Gargoyles and the film The Princess and the Frog; cast members from both productions have appeared through Amphibia.