EXCLUSIVE: Ian Sheppard, the veteran executive most recently SVP Development at Skydance Animation, has been hired as Head of Development at Laika, Travis Knight’s Oregon-based studio that has been nominated for five Animated Feature Oscars including last year’s Missing Link, which won the Golden Globe.Sheppard had been at Skydance since June 2018, when he came over from DreamWorks Television Animation after being one of the founding members of the development team there, tasked to fill 300 hours of content pipeline to Netflix.
That work resulted in series including Boss Baby: Back in Business, Voltron: Legendary Defender and Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts.Before DWA, Sheppard spent nine years as Executive Director of Development for
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