Early and Personal Life
Tony Petrossian was born in 1975 in Tehran, Iran to Armenian parents and moved to Europe during the unstable years of the Iranian Revolution. Young Tony grew up in Los Angeles and quickly garnered an affinity for film making. At the age of twelve his father brought home a video camera. And he's known to have spent the entire night locked in his room fiddling with the camera’s ‘single frame recording’ function emerging with a 30-second stop motion animation piece in which his G.I. Joe figures beat the hell out of each other.
At age thirteen, Tony Petrossian jumped into full blown 3D animation with the ‘Lightwave 1.0.’ software. At 18, he attended university at UCLA - majoring in English Literature. Petrossian then attended Law School at USC. After passing the California Bar Exam, he pursued directing music videos full time, ultimately transitioning into television commercials and short films.
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