Avatar:Jen Bennett

<infobox> <image source="image" /> <title source="name"><default>Jen Bennett</default></title> <group> <header>Biographical information</header> <label>Full name</label> <label>Born</label> <label>Died</label> <label>First credit</label> </group> <group> <header>Further information</header> <label>Link(s)</label> </group> </infobox>Jennifer Bennett, also credited as Jen Bennett, is an American director and storyboard artist. She was a storyboard artist for an episode on The Legend of Korra, and is a director on the upcoming Avatar Studios series, Avatar: Seven Havens.

Avatar works

The Legend of Korra

Storyboard artist

Appearances: 2

Director

• Avatar: Seven Havens

Selected other credit

Television work

• Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld (storyboard artist)
• Ben 10 (supervising storyboard director)
• Beware the Batman (storyboard artist)
• Centaurworld (director)
• DC Super Hero Girls (storyboard artist and revisionist)
• Hot in Cleveland (storyboard artist)
• My Adventures with Superman (director)
• Lego Scooby Doo! Haunted Hollywood (storyboard artist)
• Lego Scooby Doo! Knight Time Terror (storyboard artist)
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (director and storyboard artist)
• Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (director)
• The Venture Bros. (storyboard artist)
• Young Justice (storyboard and cleanup artist)

Filmography

• Batman: Assault on Arkham (storyboard artist)
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (storyboard artist and revisionist)
• Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (storyboard artist)
• Superman vs. The Elite (cleanup artist)

Biographical information

Personal life

Bennett received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Performance from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006.

Career

Though Bennett’s post-secondary studies focused on studying music, specifically playing the classical saxophone, she ultimately decided to switch career tracks to become a storyboard artist. As opposed to joining a visual arts program at a university, Bennett instead took classes at Concept Design Academy that focused on storyboarding and design, while also self-training her drawing abilities using traditional methods like pencil and paper, as well as tools like Photoshop.

Getting her start at Warner Bros. Animation in 2011, Bennett's first credit was on the animated superhero series Young Justice as a cleanup artist; she would continue to work as a storyboard artist on several animated superhero films while at Warner Bros. such as the direct-to-video film Superman vs. The Elite. Bennett would later cite her background in the superhero genre, and her experience choreographing action for characters with different fantastical abilities, as useful when it came to her work as a director on all of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power's five seasons. In spite of the challenges of demanding production like She-Ra, Bennett worked to create a collaborative environment with her artists and fellow directors in order to problem-solve production hurdles collectively and help mitigate the effects of the crew being overworked.