David Feiss is an Emmy-nominated director, animator, storyboard artist, and creator whose career spans television, commercials, and feature animation.

He is best known as the creator of Cartoon Network’s “Cow and Chicken” and “I Am Weasel,” and has received three Emmy nominations, an Annie Award for Best Director, and the 1997 National Cartoonist Society award for Cartoonist of the Year. Entertainment Weekly also named him one of the “100 Most Creative People in Hollywood.”

Feiss began his animation career on “Heavy Metal” in 1980 and went on to direct and animate numerous television commercials in the U.S. and Europe. His feature-animation work includes storyboarding on “Open Season,” “Hotel Transylvania 1–5,” “Rango,” “Despicable Me 1 and 2,” “Minions,” “The Grinch,” and “The Secret Life of Pets 1 and 2.”

He returned to television in 2010 to create “YooHoo and Friends” for Cartoon Network Latin America and ABC Australia, before returning to feature animation in 2012. He directed four theatrical shorts for the “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” franchise, as well as a “Minions” short and a “Sing 2” short for Illumination.

His recent work includes directing the Annie-nominated feature “Open Season: Scared Silly” and the 2024 theatrical film “Hitpig.” He most recently directed a new live-action/CG animated sci-fi series, “Armorsaurus,” streaming on Disney+.