Animation director who served as director, co-executive producer and creative lead of Star Trek: Prodigy, shaping its cinematic computer-animated look and directing its opening episode.
Ben Hibon is an animation director and designer, known before Star Trek for the stylised Tale of the Three Brothers sequence in the film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.
He was announced in August 2020 as director, co-executive producer and creative lead of Star Trek: Prodigy, the first Star Trek series made in computer animation and aimed at younger viewers. In that role he guided the visual style of the series, from the mining colony Tars Lamora to the USS Protostar.
Hibon directed the opening story Lost and Found and the mid-season episode A Moral Star, as well as the first-season finale, and in the second season he directed Into the Breach and Temporal Mechanics 101.