Career
Early in his career Risley was an animator on several television series including Exo-Squad, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Gladiators 2000 and the CBS Primetime special "The Magic Paintbrush".
Later Risley became a story artist for the Kids' Choice Awards-winning film The Rugrats Movie, then moved on to produce & direct the Emmy award-winning series Rugrats as well as the Emmy-nominated series The Wild Thornberrys (1998), the Annie Award-nominated series Rocket Power (1999), and three-time Primetime Emmy nominated series As Told By Ginger (2000–2004).
After directing selected sequences of the theatrical feature, The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002), Risley went to DreamWorks Animation, where he directed the pilot and multiple episodes of the Primetime CGI program Father of the Pride, which aired on NBC television.
In 2005 he directed the pilot, "Kitty's Dish" for Walt Disney Television Animation and wrote & directed the live-action documentary San Diego Zoo Animal Explorer.
Between 2006 and 2009 Risley directed the Nickelodeon TV series Tak & the Power of Juju and two seasons of Cartoon Network's The Mr. Men Show. In 2010, he directed Tinker Bell & the Pixie Hollow Games for the Walt Disney Company.
Mark is currently directing the second season of Nickelodeon's NFL Rush Zone: Season of the Guardians and the upcoming TV series Space Racers.
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