Michael Dante DiMartino
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Michael Dante DiMartino is an American animation director, most known as the co-creator, executive producer and story editor of the TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender on Nickelodeon. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design with Bryan Konietzko, with whom he created Avatar. Before Avatar, Mike worked for a dozen years at Film Roman, helped direct King of the Hill, Family Guy, and Mission Hill in addition to his own animated short, Atomic Love, which was screened at a number of high profile film festivals.