Michael Dante Dimartino is an American animation director, best-known as the co-creator, executive producer and story editor of the hit Tv series Avatar: The Last Airbender on Nickelodeon. He studied at the Rhode Island Colledge of Design with Bryan Konietzko, with whom he produced Avatar. Before Avatar, Mike worked for twelve years at Movie Roman, helping to direct King of the Hill, Family Guy, and Mission Hill in addition to his own animated short, Atomic Love, which was screened at a number of high profile movie festivals. The dedication to his father's memory can be seen in the last episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender. In a 2010 interview the president of Nickelodeon, Cyma Zarghami, confirmed that Michael Dante Dimartino and Avatar: The Last Airbender co-creator Bryan Konietzko are developing a new series for the network, named The Last Airbender: Legend of Korra.
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