Nick Bruno and Troy Quane

Nick Bruno and Troy Quane are American filmmakers and animators. They are best known for directing the animated films Spies in Disguise (2019) and Nimona (2023), the latter of which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Career
Quane began as a 2D animator in 1995 before starting his career at Walt Disney Studios as a storyboard artist on the films The Wild (2006) and Enchanted (2007). He later left the company to serve as a story artist on 9 (2009), Arthur Christmas (2011), and Hotel Transylvania (2012). In 2011, Quane began his directorial career with the film The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol. In 2012, Quane was hired to co-direct the film Kazorn & The Unicorn with Kelly Asbury.

Bruno began his career at Blue Sky Studios as an animator on four Ice Age films: The Meltdown (2006), Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Continental Drift (2012), and Collision Course (2016). He was also an animator on Rio (2011), Epic (2013), Rio 2 (2014), and The Peanuts Movie (2015). In 2019, Quane and Bruno first teamed up to direct the animated comedy film Spies in Disguise, for Blue Sky Studios. On May 22, 2019, Nick Bruno worked on a graphic novel called Urban Legendz with Blue Sky animator Paul Downs and Pixar animator Micheal Yates, and was released around June. In April 2022, it was announced that they would direct the Netflix animated film Nimona, which was released in June 2023. Bruno and Quane were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but lost to Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron. In February 2024, Quane expressed interest in making sequels and spin offs to Nimona.

Filmography
Troy Quane

Nick Bruno