Known for Directing
Genndy Tartakovsky is a Russian-American animator, director, producer, screenwriter, storyboard artist, comic book writer and artist. He is the creator of the animated television series Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars, and Primal on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. He is also known for co-creating Sym-Bionic Titan and directing the animated Hotel Transylvania film trilogy. Additionally, Tartakovsky was a pivotal crew member of The Powerpuff Girls, and worked on other series such as 2 Stupid Dogs and Batman: The Animated Series.
Born
January 17, 1970 (age 56)
Birthplace
Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Filmography
57 films, 48 shows


Fixed
2025 · 1h 27m · US
After learning he's getting neutered, a dog has 24 hours to squeeze in one last balls-to-the-wall adventure with the boys.


Primal: Tales of Savagery
2019 · 1h 25m · US
Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal: Tales of Savagery features a caveman and a dinosaur on the brink of extinction. Bonded by tragedy, this unlikely friendship becomes the only hope of survival.


Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
2018 · 1h 37m · US
Dracula, Mavis, Johnny and the rest of the Drac Pack take a vacation on a luxury Monster Cruise Ship, where Dracula falls in love with the ship’s captain, Ericka, who’s secretly a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, the notorious monster slayer.


Samurai Jack: The Premiere Movie
2017 · 1h 10m · US
A small boy is sent away from his village. He is to be trained as a samurai warrior and return to fight the evil shapeshifter, Aku, who has wreaked havoc throughout the village. His skills honed, the warrior attempts a return to his home, but winds up in a future time landscape. Here, the locals call the stranger, a sort of Dirty Harry kung fu loner, "Jack" and assist him in his path homeward. This is the original feature length presentation that kicked off the SAMURAI JACK phenomenon on the Cartoon Network.


Puppy!
2017 · 5m · US
The residents of Hotel Transylvania find their world turned upside-down when youngster Dennis gets a surprise monster-sized pet.


Hotel Transylvania 2
2015 · 1h 29m · US
When the old-old-old-fashioned vampire Vlad arrives at the hotel for an impromptu family get-together, Hotel Transylvania is in for a collision of supernatural old-school and modern day cool.


POPEYE Animation Test
2014 · 4m · US
Genndy Tartakovsky's 2014 CGI animation test for Sony Pictures Animation brought the classic Popeye character into 3D while retaining the exaggerated, rubbery physics of 1930s Fleischer Studios cartoons.


Goodnight, Mr. Foot
2012 · 4m · US
Bigfoot checks into Hotel Transylvania to get some sleep but keeps getting disturbed by a zealous witch maid.


Hotel Transylvania
2012 · 1h 31m · US
Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed. One special weekend, Dracula has invited all his best friends to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis's 118th birthday. For Dracula catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem but the party really starts when one ordinary guy stumbles into the hotel and changes everything!


Maruined
2009 · 7m · US
Two siblings become trapped on a deserted island full of danger with a strange hippopotamus/dog hybrid as their pet and protector.


Korgoth of Barbaria
2006 · 22m · US
In a dark future wasteland, the great cities have risen and fallen, primordial beasts have reclaimed the wilderness and thieves and savages populate sparse, dirty towns. From the frozen north emerges a warrior known as Korgoth, and his merciless savagery may be his only key to survival.


Dexter's Laboratory: Chicken Scratch
2002 · 7m · US
When Dexter gets the chicken pox, Dee Dee tells him that if he scratches he'll turn into a chicken. Dexter strives against the elements of nature to not scratch but he cannot help it. Based on the television series "Dexter's Laboratory."


Samurai Jack: Digital Animation Test
2000 · 3m · US
Experience the genesis of Samurai Jack in a short animation test where he travels and fights.


Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip
1999 · 50m · US
After Dexter is confronted with robots who wish to "destroy the one who saved the future," he uses his time machine to see how he saved it. They declare that they are here to destroy the one who saved the future, and make ready to attack Dexter. Dexter easily destroys them with the use of various tools and gadgets from his lab. However, news that he is "The One Who Saved the Future" intrigues him, and he decides to travel through time to discover how cool he is. In the first time period he visits, Dexter finds a tall, skinny, weak version of himself working in office-designing cubicles, with Mandark as his rich, successful boss. The child Dexter unwittingly reveals the existence of blueprints regarding the "Neurotomic Protocore", and Mandark steals it after the two Dexters move forward in time.


Dexter's Laboratory: The Big Sister
1996 · 7m · US
When boy genius, Dexter makes experimental cookies, his sister, Dee Dee eats one and turns into a giant.


Dexter's Laboratory
1995 · 6m · US
Dexter and Dee Dee wreck havok using Dexter's latest invention: a hand-held device that turns people into various animals. The short film that inspired the TV-series.