Jayson Thiessen (born December 30, 1976) is a Canadian animator and voice actor, best known as the first supervising director of the animated television series '' My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic''. He also directed its spin-off films '' Equestria Girls'' (2013) and '' Rainbow Rocks'' (2014), as well as the 2017 feature film adaptation based directly on the television series.

Career

Prior to working on ''Friendship is Magic'', Jayson co-directed the second season of the ''Pucca'' television series and served as the animation supervisor for the first season of ''

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'' from 2007 to 2008. He was the supervising director, and later executive producer, for the first four and a half seasons of '' My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'', also providing some voices, most notably Bulk Biceps and Doctor Whooves. He also directed the first two '' My Little Pony: Equestria Girls'' films, '' Equestria Girls'' (2013) and '' Rainbow Rocks'' (2014), as well as directing Rainbow Rocks' companion animated shorts. Halfway into season five, he stepped down from his role in the series as his attention shifted to directing '' the 2017 theatrical film based directly on the series''. As such, his role in the series diminished into a consulting director for both the second half of season 5 and the third Equestria Girls film, '' My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games'' (2015), which was his final involvement in the ''Equestria Girls'' spin-off franchise (although he did direct the film's 5 companion animated shorts). After the season 5 finale, his focus completely shifted to directing the film. Season six was the first season in which he had no involvement in, and he also had no involvement in any of the final three seasons of the series even after the film was released in theaters on October 6th, 2017. He directed eight episodes of ''

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in April 2020.

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1976 births Living people Canadian animated film directors Canadian television directors {{tv-director-stub