Giancarlo Volpe

Giancarlo Volpe (born July 31, 1974 in Tacoma, Washington) is an Italian American animator, director, and producer.

Giancarlo is currently producing the CG television show, "Green Lantern: The Animated Series" working with animation producer Bruce Timm.

Graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 1997, Giancarlo began his career at Humongous Entertainment, animating on the children's computer games "Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't so Frightening" and Putt-Putt Enters the Race. He moved to Fox (Film Roman) in 1998 to work on King of the Hill, where he was character layout artist and assistant director.

In 2004, Giancarlo went on to direct 19 episodes of the Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender; he won an Annie award for episode 213, "The Drill".

In 2008 Giancarlo moved to Lucasfilm Animation as an episodic director on Star Wars: The Clone Wars where he worked directly with famed filmmaker George Lucas.