Todd Shaffer has over 20 years of production experience in the entertainment and advertising industry, working on commercials, movies, television shows, video game cinematics and documentaries. As a director, he has directed both live-action and animation, including cel animation, 3D CGI animation, motion capture and stop-motion animation.

For the past five years Todd has been both writer and director on three film projects. Young Abraham is a fifty-minute CGI animated featurette that was produced by Big Bang Digital Studios and will be released as a direct-to-video in 2011. Men of Iron is a feature-length film that is currently in production with Classics Animated in Montreal. A second film is currently in development at Classics Animated.

Prior to his feature film work, Todd supervised the animation for the TV series Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks. Todd also worked for five years at Pascal Blais Studio as an Animation Director and intermittently for Buzz Image and Beyond FX, all based on Montreal.

Before coming to Montreal, Todd worked in Los Angeles as a character animator and animation director for ten years at numerous animation studios: Playhouse Pictures, Duck Soup Producktions, Klasky-Csupo, Cornell Abood, Sim-Ex Digital, Rich Entertainment, Renegade, Big Fish Studios, Celluloid Studios, Kurtz & Friends, and The Fred Silverman Company. Over the course of his career, Todd has animated many cartoon celebrities such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Tony the Tiger, Fred Flintstone, Diggum the Frog, Toucan Sam, The Keebler Elves, Tigger and Winnie the Pooh, just to name a few.

Artistically, Todd is an accomplished painter, having painted a number of portraits including a Maryland State Senator and a bank executive. Todd studied art under Steve Huston, Ovanes Berberian, John Ebersberger and Scott Christensen.