Fergal Reilly

Fergal Reilly is an Irish film director, storyboard artist, voice actor and animator best known for directing the animated film The Angry Birds Movie. Early life and career Reilly was born in Ardee, Ireland, and moved to the United States at the age of nineteen. He started working at the Walt Disney Studios in Los Angeles, and Dale Baer Animation as an animator and story board artist. He was a story artist on the Warner Brothers animated and hybrid movies The Iron Giant, Space Jam, and Osmosis Jones. He is an alumnus of Gormanston College a former boarding school in Ireland where he drew comics, cartoons and caricatures in lieu of any formal art classes. He attended the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology where he initially studied graphic design, but always suspected that he did not want to spend his life "pushing type around reports for banks". Reilly was among the first animation artists to work on both live-action and animated movies. He left Warner's to work on Stuart Little and The Haunted Mansion creating storyboards and concept art. In 2002 he helped visualize the action set pieces for Spider-Man 2, including the train battle between Spider-Man and Doc Ock.