Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ben Mitchell in conversation with Academy Award®-winning director Everett Downing Jr. (Hair Love) and story artist/writer Patrick Harpin. The pair have recently joined forces to create and exec produce My Dad the Bounty Hunter, a new animated action-comedy Netflix series that drops today.

The show tells the story of siblings Lisa and Sean, who, feeling neglected by their dad, stow away on his latest work trip, hoping to finally get some quality time together. They quickly learn of his secret double life as an intergalactic bounty hunter and are thrust into a series of adventures exciting and perilous.

Everett Downing Jr.’s past industry experience began as a story artist at Big Idea Productions, eventually animating on feature films such as Ice Age for Blue Sky Studios and numerous Pixar films including Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up, Toy Story 3 and Monsters University among others. More recent projects include directing on We The People and storyboarding Maya and the Three, both Netflix series, as well as co-directing the Oscar winning short film Hair Love alongside Matthew Cherry and Bruce Smith

Having graduated from the California Institute of the Arts and cut his teeth in the industry as a Story Intern at Pixar, Patrick Harpin would go on to be a Head Writer for the Cartoon Network series Clarence and storyboard for Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom as well as a number of animated features including Ice Age: Continental Drift, Free Birds, The Emoji Movie, Smurfs: The Lost Village, and the Hotel Transylvania franchise.

Produced and presented by Ben Mitchell