History
Forgoing a formal education in the arts, he started work in the video game industry when he was 19, where he worked on games for publishers such as Electronic Arts and Mattel.
At 22, he left games for a stint in Hollywood where he worked on Roughnecks, Roughnecks Starship Troopers, Max Steel and The Red Hot Chili Peppers music video for the single "Californication".
He then spent the next five years at Microsoft becoming a founding member of the Xbox team, where he worked on Crimson Skies, Combat Flight Sim and Shadowrun for the Xbox 360.
At one point he was the author and artist of the webcomic Random Frog Children but has since discontinued that project.
He and his family then moved to California from Washington to work as an Art Director for Disney Interactive where he art directed and shipped over 50 titles.
In 2008, Hanna started the comic book publishing and multimedia company Frogchildren Studios, best known for publishing the comic book Sixteen Miles to Merricks and Creature Academy: The Legacy.
He currently lives in Washington working for Frogchildren Studios, an animation studio where he worked as a creative and artistic director on Google Lively, Kinect for Xbox 360, Disney XD and more. On September 16, 2008, he was a keynote speaker at Game Developers Conference where he was the first to speak publicly on Google Lively, and announced Google's gaming intentions.
He recently completed directing the animated feature film, The Clockwork Girl
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