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, and stop-motion animation. As a writer, he has two feature-length screenplays sold, one in pre-production and one in developement.

After graduating from the Film and Television Department of Montana State University, Todd moved to Los Angeles and worked crew on a documentary and low-budget feature film while shopping his senior film to animation studios. Within weeks he was hired by the Academy Award winning animation shop Playhouse Pictures in Hollywood, where he would spend the next nine years working his way from production coordinator, to character animator and animation director, often supervising the live-action shoots where the studio would add the animation later.

After nine years of tight deadlines and incessant pressures from ad agencies, Todd left Playhouse Pictures to focus on character animation. For the next 4 years he worked as a freelance character animator for Duck Soup Productions, Cornell Abood, Sim Ex Digital, Celluloid Studios, Kurtz & Friends, Big Fish Studios, Klasky Csupo Commercials, and Rich Entertainment who brought him on board to animate the lead characters of Anna and the King for the feature animated version of The King and I.

During his time in LA, Todd had animated many cartoon celebrities including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Tony the Tiger, Fred Flintstone, Diggum the Frog, Toucan Sam, Tigger and Winnie the Pooh, just to name a few.

In 2001 Todd moved to Montreal where he would direct commercials for Pascal Blais for the next five years. In 2006 he joined Big Bang Digital Studios to

Big Bang was a VFX shop, but owner Ron Mezey wanted Big Bang to develop a competitive character animation department, and Todd was brought on board to give direction. His first project was to supervise the 3D animation of the TV series Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks which was nominated in 2007 for a Daytime Emmy Award in Children's Animated programming.

A group of Jewish business men approached Ron with a project they wanted to finance--a story from the Jewish Midrash about the patriarch Abraham as a young boy. Ron would produce and Todd would direct. Both would write. Together they began to build a team and a 3D animated look for Young Avraham which surprised everyone. In spite of an extremely modest budget Young Avraham looked like a 20 million dollar production.

Todd is currently directing a larger CGI animated feature titled Men of Iron, which is a coming of age medieval adventure. It currently has a 2011 release date.