BEN BJELAJAC
LOS ANGELES BASED DIRECTOR
Supervising Director of FINAL SPACE, Creator and Director of GODSPEED, Director for LONG STORY SHORT, Director for LITTLE DEMON, Head of Story for MR BEAST LABS, Storyboard director of HOT WHEELS, and purveyor of animated niceties.
Newest release -
Mr. Beast Labs, a new mini series from Mr. Beast and Beast Animation.
I was brought on as Head of Story for the first season, new episodes every sunday on youtube!
From Bojack creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg comes the new Neflix series LONG STORY SHORT.
I was brought in to direct episode three and episode seven of season one. I also co-directed the title sequence.
GODSPEED, a project Kickstarted by over 250,000 individual contributions from around the world.
Co-Written by Ben Bjelajac and creative partner Olan Rogers, I served as the Director, Art director, sole Storyboard Artist, and compositor. I further supervised all editing, voice directing, and sound design.
PLEASE ENJOY GODSPEED!
Former Professional work includes:
Story Board Director for NETFLIX’s newest kids series from Mattel, HOT WHEELS.
Director for FX’s LITTLE DEMON starring Aubrey Plaza and Danny Devito
Supervising Director and Writer for FINAL SPACE on TBS/AdultSwim/HBO MAX
HEAD OF STORY, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES - NICKELODEON, 2D FEATURE (UNAIRED)
Netflix's BOJACK HORSEMAN, MTV's GPSE, Comedy Central's TRIPTANK, Adult Swim's METALOCALYPSE, CHINA, IL, BLACK DYNAMITE The Animated Series, Disney XD'’s MOTORCITY, and various commercials, music videos, web series, and feature film niceties.
Among these productions, Ben also focuses on creating independent animatics that serve as both passion projects and tools to help the development and sale of new, exciting ideas. Here are a few to explore below-
Recently directed these stand up comedy snippets for Dry Bar/Angel Studios.
FINAL SPACE SEASON 3 MOMENTS:
FINAL SPACE SEASONS 1 and 2 MOMENTS:
SHORTS
Dir. Jordan Bahat
Animation Direction: Ben Bjelajac
Dir. Mike Roberts.
Animation: Ben Bjelajac