Dean DeBlois

Dean DeBlois (born June 7, 1970) is a Canadian director who is known for working with Chris Sanders on Lilo & Stitch and on making movies based on the How to Train Your Dragon books by Cressida Cowell.

DeBlois was born in Québec in 1970. As a kid, he’d read comic books and draw the characters. After graduating High school, he got a job working as a Cartoonist in Ontario.

DeBlois drew cartoons for the CBC television show The Raccoons and a movie based on The Nutcracker. He then started working for Don Bluth on A Troll in Central Park and Thumbelina.

DeBlois then got a job working for Walt Disney Animation Studios and worked with Chris Sanders on making a movie based on the poem Mulan. He then worked on the movie Atlantis: The Lost Empire but left it to work with Sanders on making Lilo & Stitch and its sequels.

Sanders then made the live-action movies The Banshee and Finn Magee, The Lighthouse, and Sightings. He also made a documentary about a band from Iceland.

DeBlois got a job turning Cressida Cowell’s Hiccup books into a movie for DreamWorks Animation, called How to Train Your Dragon and worked with Chris Sanders on it. DeBlois also made a sequel How to Train Your Dragon 2 and another one called How to Train Your Dragon 3. He also made a Live action remake of the first movie.