12 Facts About Shane Acker

Shane Acker is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Shane Acker originally set a goal of becoming an architect; he earned a bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Florida in 1994 as well as a master's degree from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Shane Acker concurrently held a position at Weta FX in 2004 as an animator, where he focused on CG characters and creatures, followed by NCsoft from 2005 to 2006 as both an animator and CG generalist.

Shane Acker wrote, directed, and co-animated the award-winning animated short film 9, which won a student award, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, and was shown at SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater.

Shane Acker is a visiting professor at Loyola Marymount University.

From January 2009 to 2010 Shane Acker worked as an instructor for an advanced animation class at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects.

Shane Acker worked at Gnomon on a short film Plus Minus, co-directed by Aristomenis Tsirbas which was due for release in late 2011 but has yet to be released.

Shane Acker was set to work from a script by Chris Viscardi, Will McRobb and Josh Klausner.

In 2011, Shane Acker formed Benthos Studio, an animation production company with partners Greg Little, Jack Mitchell and Brown Bag Films.

In 2012, Shane Acker confirmed that he planned to work with Valve to create his next film, Deep.

Shane Acker has expressed his interest in creating more PG-13 animated films, of which 9 and Deep are such.

Shane Acker completed the short film Crusoe, which was shown at the Berlin Short Film Festival.