Jayson Thiessen

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Jayson Thiessen
Jayson Thiessen at AoD 2012.jpg
Jayson Thiessen at Animation On Display 2012 in San Francisco, California
Born (1976-12-30) December 30, 1976 (age 44)[1]
NationalityCanadian
OccupationDirector
Animator
Producer
Screenwriter
Known forPucca (season 2)
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
My Little Pony: The Movie

Jayson Thiessen is a Canadian animation director, most famous for his work as the first supervising director and executive producer of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and its spin-off films Equestria Girls and Rainbow Rocks.[2] He also directed the 2017 film adaptation based directly on the television series.[3][4]

Career[]

Prior to working on Friendship is Magic, he worked on the 2nd season of the Pucca television series aired on Jetix (now Disney XD). Recently he directed eight episodes of Cleopatra in Space, an animated series which premiered on DreamWorks Channel in Southeast Asia in late November 2019 and was part of the offerings of the NBC streaming service Peacock in April 2020.[5][6]

He was the supervising director, and later executive producer, for the first four and a half seasons of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. He also directed the first two My Little Pony: Equestria Girls films, Equestria Girls (2013) and Rainbow Rocks (2014), as well as directing Rainbow Rocks' companion animated shorts. Halfway into season five, he left the series as his attention shifted to directing the 2017 theatrical My Little Pony movie. As such, his role in the series diminished into a consulting director for both the second half of season 5 and the third Equestria Girls film, My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games (2015), which was his final involvement in the Equestria Girls spin-off franchise (although he did direct the film's companion animated shorts). After that, his focus completely shifted to directing the film. Season six was the first season in which he had no involvement in, and he also had no involvement in any of the final three seasons of the series even after the film was released in theaters on October 6th, 2017.

References[]

  1. ^ Behind the Voice Actors
  2. ^ Turner, James (20 March 2012). "Is TV paying too much attention to fans?". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  3. ^ McNary, Dave (12 February 2016). "Emily Blunt Joins 'My Little Pony' Movie". Variety. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  4. ^ Martin, Annie (19 November 2015). "'My Little Pony' movie set for release in 2017". UPI. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  5. ^ Thiessen's LinkedIn page notes that he was an episodic director for Cleopatra in Space at Titmouse, employed for about a year, from March 2018 to March 2019.
  6. ^ Pearce, Steven (December 30, 2019). "Cleopatra in Space". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Archived from the original on February 18, 2020. Retrieved February 18, 2020.

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