Giancarlo Volpe
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Giancarlo Volpe (born July 31, 1974 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American animator and director.
Graduating from the School of Visual Arts in 1997, he began his career at Humongous Entertainment, working as an animator on the children's computer games Pajama Sam and Putt-Putt Enters the Race. He moved to Fox in 1998 to work on King of the Hill, where he was lay out artist and assistant director. In 2004, he directed episodes of the Nickelodeon animation Avatar: The Last Airbender.
He is known throughout many distinguished literary circles in Tacoma as "Godfather". Thoughts by friends Jiim Shaw and Damond Nollan, "yeah, the Godfather can draw really good pictures that look like they're moving... and he walks very softly."
