George Samilski

Born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, George Roman Samilski has directed CG animated television shows for over ten years and is also well-versed in the language and aspects of the live action film industry.

Schooled in traditional animation with twelve years professional experience in both the television and video game industry, George attended Sheridan College in 1993, and returned to Vancouver to begin his career at video game giant, Electronic Arts, involved in the creation of EA’s best-selling Triple Play series baseball franchise. After a number of years he had the opportunity to make the jump to television production at Vancouver-based CG animation house, Mainframe Entertainment. An animator on the first season of Beast Wars, George quickly became part of Mainframe’s first IMAX ride-film and began his directing career shortly afterward.

His Mainframe directing credits included the series Shadow Raiders, Action Man and Beast Machines, and the ReBoot CG movie of-the week Daemon Rising.

George left Mainframe for an opportunity to rejoin old friends at Electronic Arts and work as a Cinematic Supervisor on best-selling titles such as NBA Street Vol. 2 and SSX3 as well as multiple R&D projects.

Ultimately, George returned to his love of story-telling and worked as a Director at Nerd Corps Entertainment, on the children's television series, Dragon Booster.

His career has taken him to San Francisco, where he worked at Skywalker Ranch's Lucasfilm Animation as a Guest Director on the highly-anticipated CGI-animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and then back to Vancouver, wrapping work on Nerd Corps high-profile, action-adventure series - Storm Hawks.

Having worked as an animator and director in the video game and television industry for almost 15 years, George has recently accepted an exciting new position at Image Engine, as the film division's Previsualization Supervisor.